Various Artists - It’s A Rough Old Road To Travel: The Existential Psychodrama In Country Music: Volume II (1964-1974)

From the people who brought you Hillbillies In Hell. Sixteen timeless tales of existential angst wrought from backwoods outsiders and Nashville misfits. Furtive banjos and lonesome voices soundtrack a turbulent vista of Eternal Questions and Unquenchable Wanderlusts.

Trench-warfare Laments, harrowing Self-examinations, faltering Ids and devastated Egos. Many originally waxed on private press labels and distributed in unrewarding amounts, these Troubled Troubadours sing of endless Yearnings, distant Freedoms, collapsing Identities, primordial Fears and stygian landscapes of molten Self-doubt.

Years in the making – It's A Rough Old Road To Travel presents existential Howls and Jungian diatribes from forgotten 45s: windswept Longings, broken Survivalists and disrupted Ecologies. All for your contemplative listening pleasure.

Exclusive scholarly liner notes by Alvin Lucia! Full dynamic range 2022 remasters direct from the first generation analogue master tapes!

Tracklist:

1. It's a Rough Old Road to Travel [Johnny Darrell]
2. Footprints In the Sands of Time [Jimmy Griggs]
3. Running with the Wind [George Kent]
4. Wine, the River and You [Clay Hart]
5. You Can't Stop the Wild Wind from Blowing [Bobby Bare]
6. War Is Hell [Jim Ed Brown]
7. The Coming of the Roads [Johnny Darrell & Anita Carter]
8. The Farmer's Prayer [Dave Dudley]
9. Shadows of Her Mind [Ed Bruce]
10. Jimmy Jacob [Carl Vaughn]
11. Enough to Take the Me Out of the Men [Red Sovine]
12. Most Remarkable Guy [Roy Acuff Jr.]
13. What I'd Give (to be the Wind) [Roger Miller]
14. I'll Still Write Your Name In the Sand [Buddy Starcher]
15. The Oldtimer [Tony Gavin]
16. Searching [Rube Gallagher]

About this product: this is the Record Store Day '22 release on 'Milky Soul' or 'Soul Necrosis' vinyl, housed in a gatefold sleeve.