As hinted at a little while ago (though not on these forums), most of my mix-making energy in the last few months went into making a box set of country music as a Christmas present for my father, previous owner of a handful of horrible compilations with titles such as "20 Golden Country and Western Hits". The box set was supposed to be something like that, only, you know, better. The whole thing ran up to 5 volumes, organised along the lines of five major lyrical themes in country music, but I will post them separately, spread out a little so as to avoid spamming, not least because only the individual volumes actually received titles. Also, the entries are a bit bare-bones - the project was a joint one with my brother (I was in charge of the musical, he of the artistic direction), who made absolutely amazing hand-crafted cardboard boxes for it, but we forgot to actually take pictures, so I have no proof of that. The booklets also included short essays, but they are written in German (though interspersed with quotes from the lyrics in English), so there wouldn't be much of a point in posting them here. They were also hastily written and not as engaging as I had hoped them to be - nice for adding a personal touch (and for directing the attention at the lyrics, which is something that my father doesn't usually pay much attention to), but maybe not quite worthy of publication.
Here, then, is just the tracklist of one of the volumes. The theme here is music - playing music, listening to music, wallowing in self-pity to music, failing to or succeeding in attracting potential partners by impressing them with your music, and so on and so forth.
1. Out of the Silence (Came a Song)by Porter Wagoner
2. Play me a memory by Kimmie Rhodes
3. Sad Songs And Waltzes by Willie Nelson
4. Juarez (A Song To Himself) by Sam Baker
5. Luther Played The Boogie by Johnny Cash
6. Don't Stop The Music by George Jones
7. She by Gram Parsons
8. Faithless Street by Whiskeytown
9. How I Love Them Old Songs by Mickey Newbury
10. With a Vamp in the Middle by John Hartford
11. To Beat The Devil by Kris Kristofferson
12. Longhaired Redneck by David Allan Coe
13. Guitar Town by Steve Earle
14. Guitars, Cadillacs by Dwight Yoakam
15. New Strings by Miranda Lambert
16. Every Kind Of Music But Country by Robbie Fulks
17. Honky Tonk Girl by Loretta Lynn
18. Me & Jiggs by Josh Ritter
19. Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way by Waylon Jennings
20. Sing Me A Sad Song by Merle Haggard
21. For The Sake Of The Song by Townes Van Zandt
22. Eternal Circle by Bob Dylan
23. Making It Back by Richmond Fontaine
