HILLBILLIES FROM HELL
VA - Hillbillies In Hell, Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) Vol. 01 - Vol. 05 [2016 - 2019] (5 x CD's)
This is a fantastic collection of obscure and often weird country music. If you're big into outlaw country and/or country gospel acts like the Louvin Brothers, you may have heard a few songs on these compilations, but most of these are pretty obscure. Most of the songs on here deal with lyrical subjects like murder, suicide, hippies, satan, and drugs. Musically the songs range from western swing to ballads and even rockabilly. Tortured souls and troubled hearts – served up here in a dark set of narratives from the classic years of country music!
This excellent series goes way beyond the big hits, to turn up lots of great songs from the shadowy corners of country – songs about bad deeds and poor choices – handled by a variety of different singers who really keep things interesting! Largely unknown and unheralded, this collection of Hell-Bound Hayseeds will come as a revelation. Mostly cut on microscopic or private-press labels and distributed in minuscule amounts, these Tortured Troubadours tell of torments, temptations and tumults.
Deep down into the desolate depths. A daemonic caliphate of rogue Hillbillies, tremulous Hayseed Balladeers and desperate Gospel pleas. They croon. They yodel. As the torments boil. Cut on microscopic or private-press labels and distributed in minuscule amounts, these Tormented Troubadours sing of Lucifer, His diabolical dreams, suicide, murder, Devil trains, inebriates, fiends and bloodthirsty schemes. Years in the making - 'Hillbillies In Hell series presents timeless testaments of sins, redemptions and fiery temptations. Mostly issued on forgotten 45s, some of these sides are indescribably rare and are reissued here for the very first time. Remastered direct from the first generation analogue master tapes! (Amazon)
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VA - Hillbillies In Hell, Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) Vol. 01 [2016]
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VA - Hillbillies In Hell, Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) Vol. 02 [2017] The Final Chapter
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VA - Hillbillies In Hell, Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) Vol. 03 [2018] The Resurrection
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VA - Hillbillies In Hell, Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) Vol. 04 [2018] The Rapture
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VA - Hillbillies In Hell, Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) Vol. 05 [2019] Tribulations
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VA - Hillbillies In Hell CD1+CD2
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VA - Hillbillies In Hell CD5
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Track lists
VA - Hillbillies In Hell, Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) Vol. 01 [2016]
01 Harry Snyder The Needle 2:55
02 Wendell Austin & the Country S Lsd 1:59
03 Johnny Price Marijuana, the Devil Flower 2:46
04 Red River Dave California Hippie Murders! 2:13
05 Jimmy Minor Satan's Chauffeur 1:57
06 Benny Joy Dark Angel 2:48
07 Billy Barton The Devil, My Conscience and I 2:33
08 Jack Cook My Evil Mind 2:13
09 Margie Singleton Jesus is My Pusher 2:30
10 Cowboy Copas Don't Shake Hands With the Devil 2:11
11 Louie Innis Suicide 2:29
12 Don Bailey Fourteen Stories Down 2:55
13 Jesse Bruce Demon of Jealousy 2:09
14 Johnny Tyler God's Gonna Turn Us to Dust 2:11
15 Art Killmer & the Up-Town Four The Devil's Twist 2:06
16 Buck Ritchey The Slave 2:30
17 Wayne, Pat & Keith I'm Tired of You, Satan 2:09
18 Sunshine Boys We Need a Whole Lot More of Jesus (And a Lot Less Rock & Roll) 2:00
19 Bill Anderson Three A.M. 2:33
20 Jimmy Newman The Devil Was Laughing at Me 4:00
21 Buddy Knox I Think I'm Gonna Kill Myself 2:07
22 Eddie Noack Psycho 3:37
23 Buddy Long It's Nothin' to Me 2:27
24 Jack Leonard A Visit From the Devil 2:55
25 Johnny David Race With the Devil 2:21
26 Billy Strange Hell Train 2:38
27 Johnny 'pee Wee' Blaine Lonely Street to Hell 2:41
28 David Beatty & the Harmonettes I Just Got Off the Devil's Train 1:48
VA - Hillbillies In Hell, Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) Vol. 02 [2017] The Final Chapter
01 Eddie Noack Ain't the Reaping Ever Done 2:49
02 Autry Inman Six Rounds of Love and Hate 2:30
03 Anita Carter Satan's Child 2:58
04 Johnny Tyler Devil's Slate 2:17
05 G. M. Farley The Devil's Train 2:12
06 Harold Lee Ten O'clock Train 3:09
07 Eddie Snell & His Midwestern Aces I'm Going Down (For the Third Time) 2:24
08 Ralph Hart & the Texas Musical Harts Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down 2:54
09 Leon Ashley Laura (What's He Got That I Ain't Got) 2:38
10 Freddie Hart The Neon and the Rain 2:37
11 Stringbean and His Banjo Suicide Blues 2:26
12 Hal Willis Dig Me a Hole 2:37
13 Steve Bledsoe Bang, Bang You're Dead 2:28
14 Wayland Chandler Cold Cold Grave 2:30
15 Ray Sanders Graveyard Dance 1:46
16 Red Belcher & the Kentucky Ridge Runners I Ain't Gonna Let Old Satan Turn Me Round 2:44
17 Hugh X. Lewis War is Hell 3:19
18 Tommy Dee Story of Suzie 2:42
19 Jimmie Pearson & the Melody Boys Nobody Cares 2:15
20 Olin Bingham They Wouldn't Listen to a Kid 3:01
21 Hoyt Scoggins & the Saturday Nite Jamboree Boys What's Gonna Happen to This Old World 2:11
22 Bud Freeman Please Tell the World (A Message From the Grave) 2:45
23 Bill Anderson Goodbye Cruel World 2:35
24 Charlie Gore Sin City 3:04
25 Eddie Noack Before You Use That Gun 2:30
26 Eddie Miller and His Band Ghost Town 3:17
27 Lawton Williams Satan's Bell 1:55
28 Durwood Haddock Funny Farm 1:48
29 Sunshine Boys Quartet The Devil Can't Harm a Praying Man 2:36
30 David Ingles (Satan Has Been) Paralysed 2:25
VA - Hillbillies In Hell, Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) Vol. 03 [2018] The Resurrection
01 Doug Tubb The World is a Monster 2:29
02 Johnny Horton The Devil Made a Masterpiece 2:26
03 Frank Dycus The Visit 2:34
04 Arkey Blue Daddy's Sick Again 2:34
05 Charlie Stewart Mammoth Cave Secret 3:05
06 Ben Wasson & the Hardtimes Room 333 2:27
07 Lonnie Glosson Let Jesus Turn You On 2:35
08 Selwyn Cox Yodelling Heart 3:05
09 Kingsmen Jesus Loved the Devil Out of Me 1:49
10 G.M. Farley & the Foggy River Boys There Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down 2:15
11 Bob Leers The World's Gone Mad 2:12
12 George Elliott Stranger on the Bridge 2:16
13 Duane Dee When the Devil Rides the Wind 2:31
14 Knight Bros. Satan Must Get Along Without Me 2:15
15 Zero Jones Wrestlin' With Satan 1:59
16 Wally Fowler & the All-Night Singers You Can't Run Away From God 2:35
17 Hank Williams Jr. Jesus Loved the Devil Out of Me 2:15
18 Lumberjack With the Northwood Singers Hell Bound Train 2:52
19 Johnny Doe Devil Train 2:30
20 Ben Wasson & the Hard Times Footsteps Through My Mind 2:30
21 Bob Gallion Six Pallbearers 2:18
22 Rusty Adams Little Rosa 2:44
23 Bill Woods The Story of Suzie 2:58
24 Seymore Weed God Please Protect America 2:10
25 Doye O'dell If the Devil Wants to Talk 1:54
26 Steve Davis Cottage 3-0-12 2:09
27 Gospel Rhythm Boys Matthew 24 2:24
28 Jerry Jericho Which Way You Going 2:29
29 Texas Bill Strength Hillbilly Hades 3:05
30 Alvis Barnett & Woodrow Dorrell The Devil's Got Your Number 2:41
31 Kingsmen I Went to an Old Camp Meeting With the Devil 2:24
32 Sunshine Boys Quartet Jesus Hits Like an Atom Bomb 2:38
VA - Hillbillies In Hell, Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) Vol. 04 [2018] The Rapture
01 Lloyd Green Panic (A Trip) 2:42
02 Loy Clingman It's Nothing to Me 2:14
03 Ronnie Wolfe The Devil 2:29
04 Roy and Georgia and the So and So's Devil Get Away From Me 2:45
05 Robert Zehm Satan's Suitcase 2:43
06 Jack Turner Nightmare 2:02
07 Lynn Cramer With the Blue Sky Ramblers Wild She Devil 2:26
08 The Burton Family Eternal Life 2:29
09 The Statesmen Quartet Turn Your Radio On 1:46
10 Evangelist Allen Wingate I Saw the Light 1:59
11 Don Reno, Red Smiley & the Tennessee Cutups Get Behind Me Satan 2:09
12 Wayne Cochran No Return 2:16
13 Jesse Floyd Satan's Wife 2:05
14 G. M. Farley & the Foggy River Boys Judas 2:34
15 Ernest Martin & His Gospel Melody Makers When the Wrath of God Comes Down 2:49
16 Deacon Gilliland & Judy Tripp You Can't Hide 1:56
17 Margie Singleton On the Cross 2:39
18 Ernest Carter and the Hymn Trio The Gospel Train 2:34
19 Sunshine Boys Quartet Stop Now, It's Praying Time 2:10
20 Red Hayes A Satisfied Mind 2:50
21 Cowboy Howard Vokes & His Country Boys Ghost of a Honky Tonk Slave 2:44
22 Bobby Griggs Please Devil 2:25
23 Johnny Bond Let Me Go, Devil! 2:29
24 The Looper Trio Life Beyond Death 2:08
25 Sister Ada Allen Path of Sin 2:42
26 Reverend Tully McCoy Fourth Man 2:16
27 Jack Turner Little Boy, Why Do You Weep 2:17
28 Dallas Stamper and His Spiritual Rhythmettes I Am 1:24
29 Bill & Opal Carter With the Country Gents Singing, Shouting, Praying 2:14
30 Rev. John Carter There Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down 1:58
31 The Statesmen With Hovie Lister Get Thee Behind Me, Satan 2:18
32 Sunshine Boys Quartet Goodbye World, Goodbye 2:30
33 Billy Massey Ghost Town 2:05
34 Lloyd Green (pirT A) cinaP 1:58
VA - Hillbillies In Hell, Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) Vol. 05 [2019] Tribulations
01 Hank Willams The Angel of Death (Undubbed Version) 2:18
02 Hank Williams Jr. Endless Sleep 2:26
03 Tex Williams Smokey Hollow 2:21
04 Willis Brothers Ax Cabin 2:43
05 Bill Browning & the Dark Hollow Boys Marbone Swamp 2:47
06 Bobby Griggs Dead Man's Cave 2:18
07 Clyde Moody Whispering Pines 2:34
08 Burton Family I Saw the Light 2:13
09 Louvin Brothers Satan's Jeweled Crown 2:55
10 Bobby Grove There Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down 2:49
11 Durwood Daily East Dallas Dagger 2:22
12 Tex Ritter Dark Day in Dallas (Tribute to John F. Kennedy) 2:56
13 Cowboy Copas Bury Me Face Down 2:29
14 Sterling Blythe You Picked Up a Stranger 3:19
15 Tillman Franks Singers When the World's on Fire 2:19
16 Sunshine Boys Quartet No Hiding Place 2:24
17 Bill Hayes Poor White Trash 2:14
18 G.M. Farley & the Foggy River Boys The Wilderness of Sin 2:15
19 Ernest Carter & the Hymn Trio Ain't No Grave 3:02
20 Ernest Tubb Saturday Satan, Sunday Saint 3:08
21 Rusty Dean Sinner Beware 2:58
22 Curtis Potter Devil River 2:08
23 Ray Winfree Devil Hang Me High 2:06
24 Johnny Collier Mama Wears a Mini Skirt 2:10
25 Troy Hess Please Don't Go Topless Mother 2:39
26 Howard Vokes It Takes Six Men to Carry a Man to His Grave (But Only One Woman to Put Him There) 2:02
27 Webb Foley Thirty More Steps 1:48
28 Bennie Hess Walking That Last Mile 3:14
29 Jimmie Skinner One Dead Man Ago (Demo) 1:59
30 Clyde Moody Conversation With Death 2:26
31 Marie Roberson Shadow Path 1:30
32 Wanda Jackson Jesus Put a Yodel in My Soul 2:12
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Hi Butterboy,
ReplyDeletewhat a great collection of rare Hillbillies!!!
thanks thanks thanks!!! Regards
Hi Il Commendatore,
DeleteIt a different but very interesting series. Enjoy!
Happy New Year to you.
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i have one of these sets on vinyl, so BUT thanks a million for the others!!!!!!!!!! Lotsa great stuff on these!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteHi Jim H,
DeleteI agree that these are wonderful. its a very interesting listen. I believe there are more in the series buts this is all I have.
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Thank you very much for these! Love your blog. Brilliant stuff, Sir!
ReplyDeleteThan you Vandal X.
DeleteAlways good to hear that readers are having fun.
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HUGE PLEA!!!! Just discoverd your amazing site. Love the eclectic and quality music involved. Would it be possible to have this avaiable thro' pixildrain as i am unable to link to zippyshare. hope you dont mind me asking.
ReplyDeleteHi Butterboy. One off begging post! As with Deathandtaxes above i've been searching high and low for these to buy but impossible now they are selling for a fortune if available at all. Any chance of a brief re-upload. Would really appreciate it amigo!
ReplyDeleteHi Pt,
DeleteAll these links are alive and working. I just tested them with no issues. Please try again. Maybe in another browser.
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Thanks for checking mate. Appreciate it. Must be Chrome blocking it!
DeleteCheers. Brilliant blog by the way.
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Sorted. Used a proxy.
DeleteCan I ask which proxy you used.
DeleteI can't remember I'm afraid. I'll just have googled proxy and used one of the first ones that came up though.
DeleteCheers for getting back.
ReplyDeleteHey, Butterboy...any chance you have the Twisted Tales From the Vinyl Wasteland series by any chance? It is more along the lines of the Hillbillies In Hell series...and just as damn good!
ReplyDeleteHi Tribe,
DeleteI have 15 volumes of Twisted Tales From the Vinyl Wasteland and will post it in the new year.
Thanks for asking. I will make a great post.
Cheers.
Great New Year's gift for your followers! Looking forward to it!!!
DeleteAny chance of uploading those Twisted Tales From The Vinyl Wasteland soon? I'd love to have those!
ReplyDeleteHi MIInsane???,
DeleteAll links are working so I suggest you try again.
Cheers.