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Country & Western Hit Parade - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke & Hillbilly Music 1947 - BCD 16952 - 3 van 21







Germany's Bear Family is well known for its stellar box set reissues of country, rock, and rhythm & blues recordings, as well as for single titles by deserving if not necessarily remembered American artists. Their mastering, production, and packaging set the industry standard for excellence. The six-volume Dim Lights, Thick Smoke series was released on CD in December of 2008 and covered the years 1945-1950, a strange and wonderful time in country music history born from of the end of the War Department's restrictions on shellac and the end of the recording ban, all near the end of the second world war. These discs all contain either 27 or 28 tracks, and are lavishly annotated with historical essays and track by track annotation by the esteemed Colin Escott, and contain with photographs of performers and record sleeves where available. The third volume in this series covers the year 1947, and offers a portrait of a year rife with hillbilly boogie classics. The South and the Southwest must have been feeling heady in the post war years, because the music here -- even in the ballads -- reflects a sense of well being, fun, and even hedonism. The set opens with Tex Williams' nugget "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! That Cigarette!" Despite the fact that the Commander Cody version has transplanted it in popular culture memory, it doesn't touch the original for its stellar musicianship, dry-drawl delivery, and knee-slapping humor. It cooks as a transitional piece of Western swing to hillbilly boogie, and it's easy to hear rock & roll's roots in this music. Other harder-driven tunes are Maddox Brothers & Rose's "Milk Cow Boogie," Hank Williams' "Move It on Over," Jack Guthrie's "Oakie Boogie," and Merle Travis' "So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed." That said, there are a number of fine ballads in the set as well, such as Cowboy Copas' "Signed Sealed and Delivered," and Eddy Arnold's "I'll Hold You in My Heart 'Til I Can Hold You in My Arms." Another smoking number is the wild, raw, and outrageous "Keep Them Cold Icy Fingers off of Me," by Fairley Holden. The sound quality here is wonderfully warm, full, and present. This collection adds immeasurably to the series.




CD: Various - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke And Hillbilly Music - Country & Western hit Parade 1947

01. Tex Williams / Smoke, Smoke, Smoke (That Cigarette)    [0:02:57.09]
02. Eddy Arnold / It's A Sin    [0:02:28.13]
03. Bob Wills / Sugar Moon    [0:02:34.21]
04. Sons Of The Pioneers / Cigarettes, Whisky And Wild, Wild Women    [0:02:56.27]
05. Billy Hughes / Cocaine Blues    [0:02:36.08]
06. Maddox Brothers & Rose / Milk Cow Blues    [0:03:11.07]
07. Moon Mullican / Foggy River    [0:02:51.40]
08. Ernest Tubb / I'll Step Aside    [0:02:42.38]
09. Roy Acuff / Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain    [0:02:43.11]
10. The Delmore Brothers / Freight Train Boogie    [0:02:46.39]
11. Merle Travis / So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed    [0:03:00.42]
12. Cowboy Copas / Signed, Sealed And Delivered    [0:02:38.04]
13. Eddy Arnold / I'll Hold You In My Heart (Till I Can Hold You In My Arms)    [0:02:44.37]
14. Hank Williams / Move It On Over    [0:02:47.00]
15. Red Foley / Never Trust A Woman    [0:03:12.39]
16. Clyde Moody / Shenandoah Waltz    [0:02:47.21]
17. Jack Guthrie / Oakie Boogie    [0:02:36.65]
18. Moon Mullican / New Pretty Blonde (New Jole Blon)    [0:03:01.16]
19. Bill Carlisle / Rockin' Chair Money    [0:02:59.54]
20. The Cumberland Mountain Folks (Vocal By Molly O'Day) / The Tramp On The Street    [0:02:51.19]
21. Hawkshaw Hawkins / Sunny Side Of The Mountain    [0:02:57.35]
22. Fairley Holden / Keep Them Cold Icey Fingers Off Of Me    [0:02:48.55]
23. Bill Monroe / Blue Moon Of Kentucky    [0:03:05.40]
24. Charlie Monroe / Bringin' In The Georgia Mail    [0:02:54.49]
25. The Bailes Brothers / Dust On The Bible    [0:02:57.47]
26. Carl Story / I've Found A Hiding Place    [0:02:54.46]
27. Chet Atkins / Canned Heat    [0:02:33.35]




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