I made an all-country* special for my most recent episode of Getting Warmer for NTS Radio. I grew up thinking I didn’t like country music because the woman who effectively raised me listened exclusively to the contemporary country radio station and it, uh, wasn’t very good. I didn’t get into the good stuff until I was 19 or so, and still regret being so late to the party. This is a mix of my favorite kind of Golden Age country: mostly from the 50s and 60s, swimming in reverb, warbly with ghostly backing choirs, hazy heatwavy pedal steel guitar, and some of the most gorgeously tortured vocals. I hope you like it! You can download an mp3 version here.
*For the purists, a few of these tracks aren’t strictly country, but are definitely country-adjacent!
Tracklist: 1. Slim Whitman – Cool Water 2. Brenda Lee – Break It To Me Gently 3. Patsy Cline – Lovesick Blues 4. Don Gibson – Sea of Heartbreak 5. Connie Francis – Tennessee Waltz 6. Wanda Jackson – One Teardrop at a Time 7. Waylon Jennings – Love’s Gonna Live Here 8. Houston Wells – All For The Love of a Girl 9. Dolly Parton – Gonna Hurry (As Slow As I Can) 10. Roy Orbison – Blue Bayou 11. Kitty Wells – I Can’t Stop Loving You 12. Patti Page – Dark Moon 13. Conway Twitty – It’s Only Make Believe 14. Billie Jo Spears – It Makes No Difference Now 15. Lonnie Donegan – Nobody’s Child 16. Loretta Lynn – Any One, Any Worse, Any Where 17. Jack Greene – There Goes My Everything 18. Ray Price – Crazy Arms 19. Brenda Lee – Fool #1 20. Charline Arthur – Please Darlin’ Please 21. Connie Francis – Second Hand Love 22. Sammi Smith – Help Me Make It Through the Night 23. Patsy Cline – Sweet Dreams (Of You)
Is there an mp3?
digging this mix, feel a bit the same with country!
late to the party..
thanks for your patience, mp3 is here: https://www27.zippyshare.com/v/gGmiuMj8/file.html cheers!
mp3 please
thanks for your patience, mp3 is here: https://www27.zippyshare.com/v/gGmiuMj8/file.html cheers!
Waiting patiently for the downloadable version, Jen M.
thanks for the reminder, mp3 is here: https://www27.zippyshare.com/v/gGmiuMj8/file.html enjoy!
Thank you for all the time and energy you must put in to creating each of these mixes. I just discovered your blog/show a few months ago and have been enthusiastically catching up on so many of these, shifting my listening with the seasons.
You’ve also introduced me to albums by Yutaka Hirose, David Hykes, Dorothy Carter, Dorothy Ashby, Bridget St. John, and Brenda Ray (I’m sure I’m forgetting some) that I’ve fallen for hard. Sorry it’s taken me so long to comment. Looking forward to whatever you decide to share next!
Love this playlist! I knew “Cool Water” from Ballad of Buster Scruggs, didn’t know it was a classic :). NTS was promoting this as part of their “Trouble is a Lonesome Town” series of C&W mixes: https://www.nts.live/radio/collections/trouble-is-a-lonesome-town
Thanks for posting this Jen
can you share new link please ?
Thank You
hi fumio, thanks for letting me know–i’ve reupped it here, cheers: https://www117.zippyshare.com/v/sWtGw6Fo/file.html