Tom T. Hall — Tom T. Hall - Storyteller, Poet, Philosopher

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There aren’t bad Tom T. Hall studio albums, but this career-spanning compilation shows the prolific, singular country songwriter’s range—his ability to convey humour or heartbreak (or both), his understated poetry, his ear for unlikely hits. The Olive Hill, Kentucky native anticipated some of the bold storytelling of the outlaw movement with his sharply observed rebukes of hypocrisy, the most famous being his 1968 breakout hit as a writer, Jeannie C. Riley’s “Harper Valley P.T.A.” His own catalogue, though, includes a number of even more pointed political barbs: On Hall’s first single, “I Washed My Face in the Morning Dew”, he sings about how “the rich got richer and the poor got poorer, and to me it didn’t seem right”. His skill, though, was including that general sensitivity to the society around him in his songs, whether they were explicitly statement-making or not. Hall told other people’s stories more than his own, whether they were rooted in his travels as a musician, like the No. 1 hit “Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine”; his rural youth, like “The Year That Clayton Delaney Died”; or his imagination, as “Faster Horses (The Cowboy and the Poet)”. Too straight-laced to earn recognition as an outlaw himself, Hall nevertheless hung with Nashville’s more rebellious singer-songwriters, as evidenced here by his takes on two Billy Joe Shaver songs and the memorable “Spokane Motel Blues”, which finds him name-checking a litany of other subversion-oriented songwriters. Hall rarely got credit for his whimsy, and was derided for lighthearted hits like “That Song Is Driving Me Crazy”, “I Like Beer” and “I Love” (which does not appear in this collection) that were deemed frivolous and cynical by contemporary critics. Nor is he much praised as a vocalist—yet his rendition of one of his most enduring and most covered compositions, “That’s How I Got to Memphis”, is hard to match. Most impressive, perhaps, is the fact that very few Tom T. Hall songs are alike, and they’re also not much like any other country song you’ve ever heard—as good a case as any for listening to dozens of them.

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  1. Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine 4:10
  2. Magnificent Music Machine 2:17
  3. A Million Miles To the City 2:51
  4. I Washed My Face In the Morning Dew (Single Version) 2:44
  5. The Hitchhiker 3:10
  6. Ballad of Forty Dollars 3:03
  7. I Hope It Rains At My Funeral 3:28
  8. Turn It On, Turn It On, Turn It On 4:12
  9. Strawberry Farms (Single Version) 2:52
  10. Watergate Blues (Single Version) 3:02
  11. I Want To See the Parade 3:02
  12. One Hundred Children (Single Version) 2:33
  13. The Year That Clayton Delaney Died 2:45
  14. The Son of Clayton Delaney 2:54
  15. The Old Side of Town 3:03
  16. I Can't Dance 2:02
  17. Last of the Drifters (feat. Tom T. Hall) 3:20
  18. Mama Bake a Pie (Daddy Kill a Chicken) 2:43
  19. A Week In a Country Jail 3:03
  20. Spokane Motel Blues (Single Version) 2:42
  21. Homecoming (Single Version) 3:18
  22. Ravishing Ruby (Single Version) 2:30
  23. Hello, We're Lonely (Single Version) 3:12
  24. Down At the Mall (Single Version) 3:16
  25. Fox On the Run (Single Version) 2:05
  26. Shoeshine Man 3:04
  27. Flat-Footin' It (Single Version) 2:21
  28. Old Five and Dimers Like Me 2:54
  29. Willy the Wandering Gypsy and Me 2:25
  30. More About John Henry (Single Version) 3:31
  31. Give Her My Best 2:50
  32. Pamela Brown 2:37
  33. I Flew Over Our House Last Night (Single Version) 3:00
  34. Molly and Tenbrooks (feat. Bill Monroe) 2:20
  35. The Monkey That Became President (Single Version) 3:02
  36. That's How I Got To Memphis 3:02
  37. Mama's Got the Catfish Blues 2:12
  38. I Like Beer 2:53
  39. Day Drinkin' (feat. Dave Dudley) [Single Version] 3:22
  40. That Song Is Driving Me Crazy 3:08
  41. Salute To a Switchblade (Single Version) 3:26
  42. Margie's At the Lincoln Park Inn 3:18
  43. Subdivision Blues 2:52
  44. America the Ugly 3:34
  45. Hang Them All (Get the Guilty) 2:45
  46. Levi Jones 3:04
  47. Faster Horses (The Cowboy and the Poet) 2:52
  48. I'm Forty Now 3:29
  49. Deal (Single Version) 2:33
  50. Me and Jesus (Single Version) 3:19