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

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'...

16 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.

•WITNESS Jimmy Griggs ponder eternity and his FOOTPRINTS IN THE SANDS OF TIME!
•HEAR Ed Bruce explore the SHADOWS OF HER MIND!
•SEE Jim Ed Brown confirm WAR IS HELL!

Tracklist: 
A1 Johnny Darrell– It's A Rough Old Road To Travel
A2 Jimmy Griggs– Footprints In The Sands Of Time
A3 George Kent– Running With The Wind
A4 Clay Hart– Wine, The River And You
A5 Bobby Bare– You Can't Stop The Wild Wind From Blowing
A6 Jim Ed Brown– War Is Hell
A7 Johnny Darrell, Anita Carter– The Coming Of The Roads
A8 Dave Dudley– The Farmer's Prayer
B1 Ed Bruce– Shadows Of Her Mind
B2 Carl Vaughn– Jimmy Jacob
B3 Red Sovine– Enough To Take The Me Out Of The Men
B4 Roy Acuff Jr.– Most Remarkable Guy
B5 Roger Miller– What I'd Give (To Be The Wind)
B6 Buddy Starcher– I'll Still Write Your Name In The Sand
B7 Tony Gavin– The Oldtimer
B8 Rube Gallagher– Searching

Label: The Iron Mountain Analogue Research Facility
Released: 2022