"Twisted Tales From The Vinyl Wastelands" Vol. 6 "Strange Happenings In The Boonies"

Great collection of twisted country in the vein of “God Less America” comp!

Just when you think that all of the odd, wild and obscure nuggets have been unearthed from the Rock 'n' Roll and Country mine, you get a collection like this with all kinds of crazy diamonds. I personally think that there is a compound somewhere in the Ozark Mountains where they have a bunch of wild-eyed southern boys holed up, fed a steady diet of moonshine and cheeseburgers, with nothing but vintage Grand Ole' Opry broadcasts, Sun Records 45s, and Ed Wood movies for entertainment. At this compound they are given cheap guitars, stand-up basses, and two-piece drum kits and encouraged to record all these wild tracks, which are then made to look like rare old records that nobody has ever heard of... That's my conspiracy theory, and there are plenty more on this collection for you to enjoy. Tackling so many of the pressing issues of the day like: Puberty - (Cowboy) Jack Clement My Voice Is Changing; inter-racial adoption - Johnny Starr Little Brown Baby; government conspiracies - The Space Walkers - Swamp Gas; drug addiction - Margie Singleton - Jesus is My Pusher; and so on. Also possibly the most unsung issue, the one of women wearing other women's hair, thankfully tackled here by Bud & Darlene Chambers in The Wig Song, with the phenomenal line "When a woman wears another woman's hair, you can't hardly tell who they 'air" (sic). You get songs about John Wayne, the Devil, monsters, and even one Sitar Pickin' Man. There're also two great alligator songs: Bobby Hodge's Alligator Man, which celebrates the great alligator hunters of the south, and Johnny Ray Harris's Alligator Meat, which celebrates the fruits of that labor. Aside from Swamp Gas, and Hank Hill (from the show King Of The Hill) doing Red Sovine's Teddy Bear, I can't say as I have ever heard many of the tracks here--and this kinda stuff is what I love! I have made a point of hunting down collections like these for the last 20 years or so. If you like it weird, if obscure Rock 'n' Roll, and Country music, Wrastlin' and b-movies are what you call high-culture, then you won't want to miss this one. (JM) (Roots & Rhythm)

trax:
1. White Lightning ' N Excess - Lum Hatcher 2. Rock 'Round The Old Corral - House Brothers 3. Lover's Hell - Merle Kilgore 4. I Created A Monster - Glenn Barber 5. Dingaka(The Witch Doctor) - Faron Young 6. The Devil, My Conscience &  - Billy Barton 7. Dead Man - George Weston 8. Tiny Space Man - Bill Carlisle 9. Swamp Gas - The Space Walkers 10. Alligator Man - Bobby Hodge 11. Alligator - Meat - Johnny Ray Harris 12. Bayou - Tommy Jim Beam 13. Out In The Smokehouse Takin' A Bath - Leroy Pullins 14. TV Dream - Bobby Wayne 15. TV Commercials - Don Bowman 16. Sitar Pickin' Man - Bobby Zehm 17. My Voice Is Changing - Jack Clement 18. Little Brown Baby - Johnny Starr 19. The Wig Song - Bud & Darlene Chambers 20. Heeby Jeeby Blues - Jackie Powers 21. Blue Moon Of Kentucky - Pinky Pinkston 22. The Hero(John Wayne) - Red Sovine 23. I Was With Red Foley - Luke The Drifter Jr 24. Jesus Is My Pusher - Margie Singleton 25. Mother Trucker - Lloyd Hugo 26. Teddy Bear - Hank Hill 27. Teddy Bears' Last Epitaph - John Texas Rocker 28. Giddyup Do-Nut - Don Bowman 29. Stars Guitar - Vince Roberts 30. Behind The Fear - Lum Hatcher
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