Ken Burns: Country Music: The Soundtrack (140 Gram Vinyl)

Description

Double vinyl LP pressing. Original soundtrack to the Ken Burns documentary series. “If you write the truth and you’re writing about your life, it’s going to be country. It’ll be country ’cause you’re writing what’s happening. And that’s all a good song is.” – Loretta Lynn. Country Music, the eight-part, 16-hour film by Ken Burns, chronicles the creation of a truly American genre of music through the songs and stories of it’s greatest trailblazers. The Country Music: A Film By Ken Burns soundtrack includes more than 28 timeless classics as heard in the film, including songs by The Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Bill Monroe, Bob Wills, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Charley Pride, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton and many more. This deluxe set includes 68 pages of liner notes and rarely seen archival photos, documents and memorabilia.

• – Disc 1 –
• 1Can the Circle Be Unbroken (78RPM Version) the Carter Family 3:07
• 2Blue Yodel No. 8 (Mule Skinner Blues) Jimmie Rodgers 2:57
• 3Fox Chase Bailey, Deford 1:09
• 4New San Antonio Rose (78RPM Version) – Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys – 2:36
• 5Wabash Cannonball (Album Version) – Roy Acuff – 2:36
• 6It’s Mighty Dark to Travel – Bill Monroe & His Blue Grass Boys – 2:49
• 7Foggy Mountain Breakdown (Album Version) – Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs; Foggy Mountain Boys – 2:39
• 8It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels – Kitty Wells – 2:27
• – Disc 2 –
• 1I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry (Single Version) – Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboy – 2:46
• 2Crazy Arms – Ray Price – 2:30
• 3Ring of Fire – Johnny Cash – 2:35
• 4Crazy – Patsy Cline – 2:42
• 5Coal Miner’s Daughter – Loretta Lynn – 2:58
• 6Kiss An Angel Good Mornin’ – Pride, Charley Pride – 2:02
• 7Hungry Eyes – Merle Haggard & the Strangers – 3:26
• 8Stand By Your Man – Tammy Wynette – 2:37
• – Disc 3 –
• 1You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere – the Byrds – 2:33
• 2Me and Bobby McGee – Kris Kristofferson – 4:20
• 3Girl from the North Country – Bob Dylan with Johnny Cash – 3:41
• 4Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way – Waylon Jennings – 2:55
• 5Jolene – Dolly Parton – 2:40
• 6Boulder to Birmingham – Emmylou Harris – 3:33
• 7Whiskey River (Live) – Willie Nelson – 3:39
• – Disc 4 –
• 1Pancho and Lefty – Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson – 4:47
• 2He Stopped Loving Her Today (Album Version) – George Jones – 3:17
• 3Streets of Bakersfield – Dwight Yoakam with Buck Owens – 2:48
• 4Where’ve You Been – Mattea, Kathy – 3:44
• 5Go Rest High on That Mountain – Vince Gill – 5:14
• 6I Still Miss Someone (Live) – Rosanne Cash – 2:41