Various Artists Country - Country Music's Tormented Testament / Various [CD]
Country Music's Tormented Testament / Various
Various Artists Country
CD Rel Date: 1988-10-19
From the backwoods brimstone labyrinth comes 'Hillbillies In Hell: The Rapture' - a blazing collection of psychedelic pedal-steel guitars, rapturous Gospel odes, She-Devils, possessed minors, hayseed barroom homicides, hallucinogenic nightmares and desperate souls. Originally waxed on microscopic labels and distributed in minuscule amounts, these troubled and forgotten troubadours sing of drug-fueled delusions, suicidal ideation, deathly rivers and Satan's perpetual torments. Years in the making - 'Hillbillies In Hell: The Rapture' presents 34 testaments of benighted sinners, timeless tribulations, bottomless graves and the tall, tall flames of eternal damnation. A Luciferian cache of subterranean 45s - some of these sides are impossibly rare and are reissued here for the very first time. All for your primordial listening pleasure.
Tracklist:
- Lloyd Green - Panic ("A Trip")
- Loy Clingman - It's Nothing to Me
- Ronnie Wolfe - the Devil
- Roy and Georgia and the So and So's - Devil Get Away from Me
- Robert Zehm - Satan's Suitcase
- Jack Turner - Nightmare
- Lynn Cramer with the Blue Sky Ramblers - Wild She Devil
- The Burton Family - Eternal Life
- The Statesmen Quartet - Turn Your Radio on 1
- Evangelist Allen Wingate - I Saw the Light 1
- Don Reno ; Red Smiley - Get Behind Me Satan 1
- Wayne Cochran - No Return 1
- Jesse Floyd - Satan's Wife 1
- G. M. Farley and the Foggy River Boys - Judas 1
- Ernest Martin ; His Gospel Melody Makers - When the Wrath of God Comes Down 1
- Deacon Gilliland ; Judy Tripp - You Can't Hide 1
- Margie Singleton - on the Cross 1
- Ernest Carter and the Hymn Trio - the Gospel Train 1
- Sunshine Boys - Stop Now, It's Praying Time 2
- Red Hays - a Satisfied Mind 2
- Howard Vokes - Ghost of a Honky Tonk Slave 2
- Bobby Griggs - Please Devil 2
- Johnny Bond - Let Me Go Devil 2
- The Looper Trio - Life Beyond Death 2
- Sister Ada Allen - Path of Sin 2
- Reverend Tully McCoy - Fourth Man 2
- Jack Turner - Little Boy, Why Do You Weep? 2
- Dallas Stamper and His Spiritual Rhythmettes - I Am 2
- Bill ; Opal Carter with the Country Gents - Singing, Shouting, Praying 3
- Rev. John Carter - There Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down 3
- The Statesmen with Hovie Lister - Get Thee Behind Me, Satan 3
- Sunshine Boys Quartet - Goodbye World, Goodbye 3
- Billy Massey - Ghost Town 3
- Lloyd Green - ("Pirt A") Cinap