TRACKLIST
The Carter Family - 2001 (Ballad To The Future)
Henson Cargill - Skip A Rope
Porter Wagoner - Julie
Eddie Noack - Barbara Joy
Waylon Jennings - The Road
Sammi Smith - Birmingham Mistake
Norma Jean - One's On The Way
Wendy Bagwell And The Sunliters - This Train
Dee Mullins - I Am The Grass
Hank Thompson And The Brazos Valley Boys - I Cast A Lonesome Shadow
Porter Wagoner - Lonely Comin' Down
Henson Cargill - The Pain Will Go Away
The Carter Family - Poison Red Berries
Bobby Bare - When I've Learned
Roger Miller - I Know Who It Is (And I'm Gonna Tell On Him)
Little Richard Miller - The Fire Came Down
DESCRIPTION
Limited Edition of 666 copies!
Deluxe Gatefold LP with exclusive scholarly liner notes by Alvin Lucia!
Full dynamic range 2022 remasters direct from the first generation analogue master tapes!
Limited to 666 copies – 222 (randomly inserted) ‘Revelation Red’ LPs / 222 (randomly inserted) ‘Mark Of The Beast’ Splatter LPs / 222 (randomly inserted) ‘Final Night’ Black LPs!
Behold…
The dark, etheric carnival of broken Nashville delights – Deathly Oracular Visions, Cuckolds, Wastrels, Chain Gang Laments and Fiery Apocalyptic Fever-Dreams. Sometimes grim, often beautiful – this extraordinary collection of knowns and unknowns, battered Opry legends and forgotten backwoods-poets and preachers features tales of Tenement Tragedies, Vengeful Vegetation, Proselytizing Playground Philosophies, Windswept Abandonment and Deathbed Confessions. Originally waxed in often penurious amounts, these Troubled Troubadours sing of Fatal Infidelities, Aching Hypocrisies, Deep Dark Depressions, Penal Punishments, Flaming Prophecies and Rapturous Revelations.
Years in the making – ‘Hillbillies In Hell’ (13) presents 16 timeless tribulations – a Lovecraftian clutch of Ancient Terrors, Sinful Seductions, Grinding Poverty, Debilitating Disfigurement, Hell’s Eternal Maze of Hardships and God’s Blazing Light of Redemption.
A misty shroud of marginal 45s – some of these sides are impossibly rare and are reissued here for the very first time. All for your cautionary listening pleasure.