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Hank Thompson
Wild Side of Life
Genres: Country, Pop

Track Listings (30) - Disc #1
1. Californian Women
2. (I've Got A) Humpty Dumpty Heart
3. The Green Light
4. Woah Sailor
5. The Wild Side of Life - Hank Thompson, Carter, Arlie A.
6. Waiting in the Lobby of Your Heart - Hank Thompson, Gray, Billy
7. Rub-A-Dub-Dub
8. Yesterday's Girl - Hank Thompson, Gray, Billy
9. Wake Up Irene - Hank Thompson, Allard, W.
10. A Broken Heart and a Glass of Beer - Hank Thompson, Flatt
11. A Cat Has Nine Lives
12. Swing Wide Your Gate of Love
13. I Find You Cheatin' on Me
14. Tomorrow Night
15. Humpty Dumpty Boogie
16. Hangover Heart - Hank Thompson, Hagan, Pat. J.
17. Soft Lips - Hank Thompson, McCoy, Walt
18. She's a Girl Without a Sweetheart
19. The Grass Looks Greener
20. If I Cry - Hank Thompson, Allard, George Weld
21. Cryin' in the Deep Blue Sea
22. I'd Have Never Found Somebody New
23. Simple Simon - Hank Thompson, Ague
24. When You're Lovin' You're Livin'
25. The New Wears Off Too Fast - Hank Thompson, Gray, Billy
26. I'll Sign My Heart Away
27. If Lovin' You Is Wrong - Hank Thompson, Gray, Billy
28. Most of All
29. It's Better to Have Loved a Little (Than to Have Never Loved at All)
30. No Help Wanted - Hank Thompson, Carlisle, Bill

Hank Thompson was perhaps the most popular Western swing musicians of the 50s and 60s, keeping the style alive with a top-notch band, tremendous showmanship, and a versatility that allowed him to expand his repertoire into... more »

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All Artists: Hank Thompson
Title: Wild Side of Life
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Proper Introduction
Original Release Date: 1/1/2004
Re-Release Date: 11/15/2004
Album Type: Import
Genres: Country, Pop
Styles: Bluegrass, Roadhouse Country, Classic Country, Western Swing
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 805520060745

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CD Reviews

A great Thompson primer

Lord Rockingham | United Kingdom | 06/09/2007

(4 out of 5 stars)

"To read, in the discography included with this CD, that one of the tracks was recorded in the "Capitol Lounge at Sunset and Vine" is to experience a certain frisson of longing for a - perhaps imagined? - Golden Age of music recording. But that's not to say that this music sounds at all dated. This is a super - and super-value - selection of 30 tracks of great, straight-ahead Texan country music. Thompson's voice is reminiscent of that of another Hank (Williams) but with a smoother, almost crooner-ish edge to it. The musicianship is superb and there's some killer steel guitar work here, particularly on "Waiting in the Lobby of Your Heart" (a title, surely, worthy of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band) where it's played, to sometimes eerie effect, by Curly Chalker. Many of the tracks are transcription recordings and considering their vintage - the earliest is from 1946, the latest from '53 - the sound quality on this disc is consistently very good. Add to this a nicely produced fold-out cardboard sleeve, a booklet with liner notes by Adam Komorowski and a useful discography and you have a very attractive package. This is true, popular country music before much of it became a slickly-produced marketing exercise."