[2016-09-02] Porter Wagoner "The Definitive Collection" 2CD set (Real Gone)

Linda · **Posted:** Wed Jul 13, 2016 4:04 am

Description
No one, but no one, painted a picture in song of despair and desolation like the Thin Man from the West Plains, Porter Wagoner. Forget the Nudie suit and the pompadour; Waylon Jennings once said that Wagoner couldn’t go pop with a mouthful of firecrackers, and these 40 songs prove it. Sure, the hits—27 of ‘em in all and every Top Ten solo smash—are here, like “A Satisfied Mind,” “Misery Loves Company,” “Skid Row Joe,” “The Cold Hard Facts of Life,” and “The Carroll County Incident,” but what elevates this collection above a mere best-of are the tracks lifted from Wagoner’s starkly compelling concept albums (complete with their amazing album art, some of which we’ve included here) like Confessions of a Broken Man, Soul of a Convict and Other Great Prison Songs, and The Bottom of the Bottle. Grammy-winning writer Colin Escott contributes notes to the package, which is newly remastered by Vic Anesini at Battery Studios in New York. Country music never got harder than this…this ain’t cry-in-your-beer country, it’s more like punch-in-the-gut poetry. Essential!

Tracklist
[CD1]
1. Howdy Neighbor, Howdy
2. Trademark
3. Company’s Comin’
4. A Satisfied Mind
5. Eat, Drink and Be Merry (Tomorrow You’ll Cry)
6. What Would You Do (If Jesus Came to Your House)
7. Uncle Pen
8. Tryin’ to Forget the Blues
9. A Good Time Was Had by All
10. Midnight
11. I Thought I Heard You Calling My Name
12. Legend of the Big Steeple
13. Your Old Love Letters
14. Everything She Touches Gets the Blues
15. Misery Loves Company
16. Cold Dark Waters
17. I’ve Enjoyed as Much of This as I Can Stand
18. Sorrow on the Rocks
19. The Life of the Party
20. I’ll Go Down Swinging

[CD2]
1. Y’all Come
2. Green, Green Grass of Home
3. Skid Row Joe
4. Confessions of a Broken Man
5. I Just Came to Smell the Flowers
6. Soul of a Convict
7. The Cold Hard Gacts of Life
8. The First Mrs. Jones
9. Julie
10. Woman Hungry
11. Turn the Jukebox Up Louder
12. Pastor’s Absent on Vacation
13. The Carroll County Accident
14. Big Wind
15. When You’re Hot You’re Hot
16. You Got-Ta Have a License
17. The Last One to Touch Me
18. The Rubber Room
19. What Ain’t to Be, Just Might Happen
20. Highway Headin’ South

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01ICUP9YQ/?tag=imwan-20

Linda · **Posted:** Wed Jul 13, 2016 4:06 am

The new 2CD set above was previously released as the digital-only The Essential Porter Wagoner:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CXPUAGE/?tag=imwan-20

[2016-09-02] Porter Wagoner "The Definitive Collection" 2CD set (Real Gone)

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