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Porter Wagoner & the Wagonmasters
The Cold Hard Facts of Life
Genre: Country

Track Listings (24) - Disc #1
1. Men with Broken Hearts - Porter Wagoner, Williams, Hank
2. I Just Came to Smell the Flowers - Porter Wagoner, McAlprin, Vic
3. May You Never Be Alone - Porter Wagoner, Williams, Hank
4. Skid Row Joe - Porter Wagoner, Hart, Freddie
5. Take Me Back and Try Me One More Time - Porter Wagoner, Tubb, Ernest
6. How Far Down Can I Go? - Porter Wagoner, Barney
7. I'm a Long Way from Home - Porter Wagoner, Cochran, Hank
8. Confessions of a Broken Man - Porter Wagoner, Anderson, Bill
9. My Tears Are Overdue - Porter Wagoner, Hart, Freddie
10. I've Been Down That Road Before - Porter Wagoner, Williams, Hank
11. Thy Burdens Are Greater Than Mine - Porter Wagoner, King, Pee Wee
12. My Lasy Two Tens - Porter Wagoner, McAlpin, Vic
13. Boston Jail - Porter Wagoner, Sean, Tony
14. The Convict and the Rose - Porter Wagoner, Chapin, Betty
15. I Relived My Life Today - Porter Wagoner, McAlprin, Vic
16. I'm Just Here to Get My Baby out of Jail - Porter Wagoner, Davis, Karl
17. Let Me In - Porter Wagoner, Crysler, Gene
18. The Big River Train - Porter Wagoner, Mullins, Johnny
19. The Snakes Crawl at Night - Porter Wagoner, Burch, Fred
20. They're All Going Home But One - Porter Wagoner, Davis, Karl
21. Folsom Prison - Porter Wagoner, Cash, Johnny
22. Soul of a Convict - Porter Wagoner, Sovine, Eddie
23. Green Green Grass of Home - Porter Wagoner, Putman, C.
24. (I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle - Porter Wagoner, Davis, Jimmie
Track Listings (24) - Disc #2
1. The First Mrs. Jones - Porter Wagoner, Anderson, Bill
2. Words and Music - Porter Wagoner, Bulla, Vance
3. The Cold Hard Facts of Life - Porter Wagoner, Anderson, Bill
4. Sleep - Porter Wagoner, Clement, Jack
5. Hundred Dollar Funeral - Porter Wagoner, McAlpin, Vic
6. If I Could Only Start Over - Porter Wagoner, Bradshaw, Faye
7. Tragic Romance - Porter Wagoner, Grandpa Jones
8. Try Being Lonely - Porter Wagoner, McCormick, George
9. I'll Get Ahead Some Day - Porter Wagoner, Magaha, Mack
10. I Just Can't Let You Say Goodbye - Porter Wagoner, Nelson, Willie
11. Shopworn - Porter Wagoner, Harris, Ted
12. Julie - Porter Wagoner, Jennings, Waylon
13. Wino - Porter Wagoner, Parton
14. Daddy and the Wine - Porter Wagoner, Crysler
15. Swinging Doors - Porter Wagoner, Haggard, Merle
16. The Bottom of the Bottle [Remake] - Porter Wagoner, Young
17. In the Shadows of the Wine - Porter Wagoner, Rose
18. She Burnt the Little Roadside Tavern Down - Porter Wagoner, Howard, Bill
19. The Bottle Let Me Down [Remake] - Porter Wagoner, Haggard
20. One Dime for the Wine - Porter Wagoner, Putman, Curly
21. Wine - Porter Wagoner, Tillis
22. Turn the Juke Box Up Louder - Porter Wagoner, Morse
23. I Threw Away the Rose - Porter Wagoner, Haggard
24. Bottle, Bottle - Porter Wagoner, Kingston
Track Listings (22) - Disc #3
1. The World Needs a Washin' - Porter Wagoner, Cochran, Hank
2. Banks of the Ohio - Porter Wagoner, Fold, Bill
3. Sing Me Back Home - Porter Wagoner, Haggard, Merle
4. Barefoot Nellie - Porter Wagoner, Davis
5. Sorrow Overtakes the Wine - Porter Wagoner, McCord
6. Black Jack's Bar - Porter Wagoner, Driftwood, J.
7. The Carroll County Accident - Porter Wagoner, Ferguson, Bob
8. Rocky Top - Porter Wagoner, Bryant
9. Your Mother's Eyes - Porter Wagoner, Tillis, Mel
10. King of the Cannon County Hills - Porter Wagoner, Jones, Louis M.
11. I Lived So Fast and Hard - Porter Wagoner, Parton
12. Fallen Leaves - Porter Wagoner, Grandpa Jones
13. Here's a Toast to Mama - Porter Wagoner, Owens, Buck
14. Sidewalks of Chicago - Porter Wagoner, Kirby, Dave
15. The Silent Kind - Porter Wagoner, Wagoner, Porter
16. The Alley - Porter Wagoner, Parton, Dolly
17. The Town Drunk - Porter Wagoner, Owens, Bill [1]
18. Mama - Porter Wagoner, Aldridge, Charlie
19. Bottle of Wine - Porter Wagoner, Paxton, Tom
20. One More Dime - Porter Wagoner, Parton, Dolly
21. I Judged a Man - Porter Wagoner, Mullins, Johnny
22. When I Drink My Wine - Porter Wagoner, Parton, Dolly

CD Details

All Artists: Porter Wagoner & the Wagonmasters
Title: The Cold Hard Facts of Life
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Bear Family
Release Date: 1/1/1967
Album Type: Import
Genre: Country
Style: Classic Country
Number of Discs: 3
SwapaCD Credits: 3

Synopsis

Album Description

2008 three CD set housed in a digipak, featuring six best-selling concept albums that gave the Country Music superstar Porter Wagoner a cult following: Confessions Of A Broken Man (1966); Soul Of A Convict (1967); The Cold Hard Facts Of Life (1967); The Bottom Of A Bottle (1968); The Carroll County Accident (1969) and Down In The Alley-Skid Row Joe' (1970). Seventy gripping 'slice of life' songs and recitations including such memorable Top 5 Billboard Country chart hits as 'Green, Green Grass Of Home', 'Skid Row Joe; The Cold Hard Facts Of Life' and 'The Carroll County Accident'. Features a rogue's gallery of murderers, philanderers, depressives, death-row inmates, unrepentant barflies, panhandling winos and other losers. Includes extensive notes covering these fascinating albums and Wagoner's life and career. Bear Family.

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CD Reviews

Wonderful to have these in one place

E. C Goodstein | Northern CA United States | 04/26/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Price may be discouraging. But--wonderful to have all six of these 'concept' albums by Wagoner in one place. If dour in theme, his sweet conversational voice is very adept at communicating the themes of 'Skid Row Joe' and other down and out characters. Not everything downbeat either-- at least in arrangements. Very thoughtfully put together groups of songs by top country writers too: Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Bill Anderson, Waylon Jennings only a few of the excellent writers represented-- and often by lesser known, but marvelous songs. If a few are melodramatic or border on bathos, his committment and clarity of expression are outstanding-- & of course top notch mid '60's Nashville players involved. Lot more to PW than just the affable host of Nashville TV shows standing around in Nudie suits, or the 'scorned' ex-partner of Dolly Parton. I haven't fully taken in everything on these albums-- there's much to savor!!"