Porter Wagoner The Cold Hard Facts of Life cd

cd
2008/1967
new
That's Porter's own apartment in the cover shot, with no pictures on the walls & the lampshade with the plastic still on. Throughout the late 60s Porter's albums were all organized around a theme, and they always starred his rich, melodramatic baritone as the loser with the rough luck. Jailbirds, cuckolds, drunkards, gamblers, charity cases, & the unloved were all made into someone anyone could identify with, if they didn't already. All of 'Cold Hard Facts', plus all of 'Soul of a Convict' and 6 bonus tracks from singles. Tracklisting: First Mrs. Jones, Words and Music, Cold Hard Facts of Life, Sleep, Hundred Dollar Funeral, If I Could Only Start Over, Tragic Romance, Try Being Lonely, I'll Get Ahead Someday, I Just Can't Let You Say Goodbye, Shopworn, Julie, Boston Jail, Convict and the Rose, I Relived My Life Today, I'm Just Here To Get My Baby Out of Jail, Let Me In, Big River Train, Snakes Crawl at Night, They're All Going Home But One, Folsom Prison Blues, Soul of a Convict, Green Green Grass of Home, I Heard That Lonesome Whistle, I Lived So Fast and Hard, Your Mother's Eyes, Julie, Be Proud of Your Man, House of Shame, Fallen Leaves.