VA - The Blissed Out Birth of Country Rock Vol 1 1966 - 68 (2014) MP3@320kbps Beolab1700

VA – Truckers, Kickers, Cowboy Angels: The Blissed-Out Birth of Country Rock, Volume 1, 1966-1968 (2014) MP3@320kbps Beolab1700



---------------------------------------------------------------------
VA - Truckers Kickers Cowboy Angels: The Blissed Out Birth of Country Rock
---------------------------------------------------------------------

Artist...............: Various Artists
Album................: Truckers Kickers Cowboy Angels: The Blissed Out Birth of Country Rock
Genre................: Country-Rock
Source...............: CD
Year.................: 2014
Ripper...............: EAC (Secure mode) / LAME 3.92 & Asus CD-S520
Codec................: LAME 3.99
Version..............: MPEG 1 Layer III
Quality..............: Insane, (avg. bitrate: 320kbps)
Channels.............: Joint Stereo / 44100 hz
Tags.................: ID3 v1.1, ID3 v2.3
Information..........:

Posted by............: Beolab1700 on 20/11/2014

---------------------------------------------------------------------
Tracklisting
---------------------------------------------------------------------

Disc 1
01. International Submarine Band – Truck Driving Man 2:36
02. Rick Nelson – You Just Can’t Quit 2:22
03. The Lovin’ Spoonful – Nashville Cats 2:36
04. Buffalo Springfield – Pay The Price 2:39
05. Gene Clark & The Gosdin Brothers – Tried So Hard 2:22
06. The Youngbloods – Grizzely Bear aka Grizzly Bear 2:24
07. Gene Clark & The Gosdin Brothers – So You Say You Lost Your Baby 2:10
08. The Gosdin Brothers – Tell Me 3:06
09. The Lovin’ Spoonful – Darlin’ Companion 2:23
10. The Everly Brothers – Movin’ On 2:28
11. Bobbie Gentry – Ode To Billie Joe 4:16
12. Buffalo Springfield – Child’s Claim To Fame 2:14
13. The Everly Brothers – Bowling Green 2:49
14. Bobbie Gentry – Niki Hoeky 2:48
15. International Submarine Band – Luxury Liner 2:53
16. International Submarine Band – Blue Eyes 2:49
17. The Monkees – What Am I Doing Hangin’ Round 3:12
18. The Byrds – Old John Robertson 1:55
19. The Youngbloods – Sugar Babe 2:14
20. Kenny Vernon – Ain’t That A Shame 2:01
21. Nashville West – Ode To Billie 3:43

Disc 2
01. International Submarine Band – Do You Know How It Feels To Be Lonesome 3:34
02. The Byrds – Wasn’t Born To Follow 2:07
03. Bob Dylan – I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight 2:40
04. The Band – The Weight Band 4:37
05. Hearts & Flowers – She Sang Hymns Out Of Tune 3:06
06. The Band – I Shall Be Released Band 3:14
07. The Byrds – You Ain’t Going Nowhere 2:36
08. The Byrds – Hickory Wind 3:33
09. The Beau Brummels – Turn Around 3:03
10. The Beau Brummels – The Loneliest Man In Town 1:51
11. Lovin’ Spoonful – Never Goin’ Back 2:51
12. The Byrds – One Hundred Years From Now 2:42
13. Dillard & Clark – Train Leaves Here This Morning 3:52
14. The Spencers – Make Up Your Mind 2:27
15. Dillard & Clark – The Radio Song 3:04
16. The Dillards – Nobody Knows 2:18
17. The Dillards – Listen To The Sound 2:39
18. Dennis Payne – The Conscience Of You 2:45
19. The Everly Brothers – T For Texas 3:32
20. The Everly Brothers – I Wonder If I’ll Care As Much (Version 2) 2:58

---------------------------------------------------------------------

Appropriately enough, the first volume of Bear Family’s seven-volume country-rock series Truckers, Kickers, Cowboy Angels kicks off with the voice of Gram Parsons, the man who wrote the line that gives this project its title and the man commonly acknowledged as the Hank Williams of country-rock. Parsons wasn’t the first or only West Coast cowboy to get to this hybrid of Bakersfield country, Nashville craft, hippie ideals, and rock & roll amplification, which this double-disc, 41-track set makes perfectly clear. Gram gave country-rock a mythos and enduring sex appeal but he was supported by a number of long-haired refugees, Music City freaks, and Hollywood misfits, all of whom feature prominently on this compilation.

Covering the years 1966-1968, this first volume happily blurs borders not just between country and rock but between the respectable and not, rightly finding place for Rick Nelson and the Monkees’ “What Am I Doing Hangin’ Round” in between Parsons’ first band International Submarine Band and his second, the Byrds. Other L.A. folk-rockers show up, namely Buffalo Springfield and Bobbie Gentry — who was always halfway between California and Tennessee — and they also have a strong presence on the first disc. The second has places for the Band and Bob Dylan but this collection of 1968 sides is heavy on the Byrds (who had then enlisted Parsons to complete their country makeover, the Dillards and the Beau Brummels, along with the Everly Brothers, who were the only ’50s survivors working in this idiom. Every one of these names will be familiar to aficionados of country-rock and perhaps even to fellow travelers, but surprise isn’t quite the goal of this set. What this intends to provide is a portrait of the rise of country-rock in all its wooly glory and Truckers, Kickers, Cowboy Angels does so, quite gloriously.

---------------------------------------------------------------------