Porter Wagoner - The Cold Hard Facts Of Life [3xCD]

Detailing the consequences of alcoholism, infidelity, homicide, imprisonment and mental Illness, The Cold Hard Facts Of Life is a 3 CD set from the inimitable, and sadly missed,  Porter Wagoner.

Bear Family Records have compiled six legendary country noir concept albums that pushed the genteel morality of what had gone before in country songs, into a new territory that went even beyond Hank's Luke The Drifter musings.

Lovingly restored with extensive notes and photographs, these late sixties and early seventies masterpieces have yet to be surpassed.

Confessions Of A Broken Man (1966)

• Men with Broken Hearts
• I Just Came to Smell the Flowers
• May You Never Be Alone
• Skid Row Joe
• Take Me Back and Try Me One More Time
• How Far Can I Go?
• I'm a Long Way From Home
• Confessions of a Broken Man
• My Tears Are Overdue
• I've Been Down That Road Before
• Thy Burdens Are Greater Than Mine
• My Last Two Tens

Soul Of A Convict (1966)

• Boston Jail
• The Convict and the Rose
• I Relived My Life Today
• I'm Just Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail
• Let Me In
• The Big River Train
• The Snakes Crawl at Night
• They're All Going Home But One
• Folsom Prison
• Soul of a Convict
• The Green Green Grass of Home
• (I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle

The Cold Hard facts Of Life (1967)

• The First Mrs Jones
• Words and Music
• The Cold, Hard Facts of Life
• Sleep
• Hundred Dollar Funeral
• If I Could Only Start Over
• Tragic Romance
• Try Being Lonely
• I'll Get Ahead Some Day
• I Just Can't Let You Say Goodbye
• Shopworn
• Julie

The Bottom Of the Bottle (1968)

• Wino
• Daddy and the Wine
• Swinging Doors
• The Bottom of the Bottle
• In the Shadows of the Wine
• She Burnt the Little Roadside Tavern Down
• The Bottle Let Me Down
• One Dime for the Wine
• Wine
• Turn the Juke Box Up Louder
• I Threw Away the Rose
• Bottle, Bottle

The Carroll County Accident (1969)

• The World Needs A Washin'
• Banks Of the Ohio
• Sing Me Back Home
• Barefoot Nellie
• Sorrow Overtakes The Wine
• Black Jack's Bar
• The Carroll County Accident
• Rocky Top
• Your Mother's Eyes
• King Of The Cannon County Hills
• I Lived So fast and Hard
• Fallen Leaves

Down In The Alley (1970)

• Here's A Toast To Mama
• Sidewalks Of Chicago
• The Silent Kind
• The Alley
• The Town Drunk
• Mama
• Bottle Of Wine
• One More Dime
• I Judged A Man
• When I Drink My Wine