In this week's episode we're featuring a Conway Twitty album taken from smack dab in the middle of his hard country years (approx. 1965-1975): Darling, You Know I Wouldn't Lie (1969). Turning again to his go-to hardcore country lyricist Wayne Kemp (an old running mate from his days in Oklahoma City), Twitty scored his third consecutive Top 5 hit with the cheating-themed title track. A further exploration in song of Harlan Howard's Life Turned Her That Way theme presents itself on Bad Girl, promptly followed by the corresponding Bad Man. Interesting to note both tracks written by Twitty himself, who also added a dynamite hard country shuffle to round out Side A of the album in Table In The Corner. Even the filler from this period in Conway's career is top-notch: a cover of Tom T. Hall's Ballad Of Forty Dollars rips as much as the original and even though it's hard to top a George Jones vocal, the Owen Bradley/Decca arrangement and production on When The Grass Grows Over Me and Window Up Above makes for superb listening. Quality stuff!
HOUR 1:
1. Conway Twitty – Table In The Corner (1969)
2. Sonny Burns – The Room Next To Mine (1963)
3. Mel Tillis – The Losing End (1973)
4. Mel Tillis – Stolen Wine (1972)
5. Conway Twitty – Bad Girl (1969)
6. Conway Twitty – Bad Man (1969)
7. Freddie Hart – Caught At Last (1954)
8. Rickey Wasson – Shoe Goes On The Other Foot Tonight (2008)
9. Idle Time Band – My Boxcar Home (2015)
10. Jimmie Osborne – It Just Tears Me All To Pieces (1954)
11. Jimmie Osborne – The Death Of Little Kathy Fiscus (1949)
12. Johnny Bond – Bachelor Bill (1964)
13. Martin Delray – Tryin’ To Keep A Few Things Warm (1992)
14. The Geezinslaws – I Kissed The Bus (1990)
15. Jimmie Osborne – Missing In Action (1952)
16. Jimmie Osborne – I’m Scared To Go Home (1953)
HOUR 2:
1. Kenny Serratt – Your Side Of The Bed (2000s)
2. AUSSIE INJECTION: The Singing Kettles – How I Love Those Country Songs [Live, late 70s]
3. AUSSIE INJECTION: The Singing Kettles – Game As Ned Kelly (late 60s)
4. Conway Twitty & Carlton Haney – Papa Sing Me A Song (1969)
5. Conway Twitty – Darling, You Know I Wouldn’t Lie (1969)
6. Don Cox – The Reins Are In Your Hands (1996)
7. Bill Emerson – Goin’ Out To Hollywood (1965)
8. Rod Bain – (Here I Am) Holding Trouble Again (1964)
9. Virgil Owen – Whatever You Think Best (1963)
10. Bill Mack – Six Big Men (1965)
11. COUNTRY COVERS: Frankie Miller – I’ll Write To You (1960)
12. COUNTRY COVERS: Frankie Miller – Mean Old Greyhound Bus (1964)
13. COUNTRY COVERS: Frankie Miller – Too Hot To Handle (1964)
14. SHOT OF STEEL: CB Sutton – I Need Something Easy Tonight (2000s)
15. SHOT OF STEEL: Kinneth Doyle – If I Saw Myself (2000s)
16. Conway Twitty – When The Grass Grows Over Me (1969)
17. Conway Twitty – Window Up Above (1969)
HOUR 3: If That Ain’t Country’s Year In Country Music – 1982
1. George Jones & Merle Haggard – No Show Jones
2. Ray Price, Johnny Gimble & The Texas Swing Band – One Fiddle, Two Fiddle
3. The Johnson Mountain Boys – Just Another Broken Heart
4. The Johnson Mountain Boys – Johnson Mountain Chimes
5. The Johnson Mountain Boys – Darlin’ I’m Coming Home
6. Gene Watson – Fourteen Carat Mind
7. Mac Wiseman & Chubby Wise – Give Me My Smokes & The Tennessee Waltz [Live]
8. Riders In The Sky – I Ride An Old Paint
9. Mel McDaniel – Stars
10. Nat Stuckey – Brown Eyed Handsome Man
11. Mickey Gilley – Texas Heartache Number One
12. Gary Stewart – She Sings Amazing Grace
13. Gary Lumpkin & Connie Lee – Size Seven Round (Made Of Gold)
14. Billy Parker – If I Ever Need A Lady
15. Johnny Paycheck – No Way Out
16. Ricky Skaggs – Can’t You Hear Me Calling
17. George Strait – Honky Tonk Crazy