Hank Thompson - Pathway of My Life 1966 - 1986, Pt. 1-8 [8CD] (2013)

Tracklist

Pathway of My Life 1966 - 1986, Pt. 1
01. If I Lose You Tomorrow
02. I'll Set My Teardrops to Music
03. Number One on the Hurt Parade
04. I've Got a Date with a Teardrop
05. Clubs, Spades, Diamonds and Hearts
06. The Great Society
07. On Tap, In the Can, Or in the Bottle
08. Let the Four Winds Choose
09. New Blackboard of My Heart
10. Smoky the Bar
11. The Big One Got Away
12. Lend Me a Dollar
13. Where Is the Circus
14. Love Walked out Long Before She Did
15. He's Got a Way with Women
16. I See Them Everywhere
17. Green Light
18. Most of All
19. Whoa Sailor
20. Humpty Dumpty Heart
21. Squaws Along the Yukon
22. Today
23. Breaking the Rules
24. Tomorrow Night
25. Wildwood Flower
26. John Henry
27. Take the 'A' Train
28. Brazos Valley Blues
29. La Golondrina
30. Steel Guitar Rag
31. Turkey on the Strings
32. Chihuahua Polka
33. Ja-Da

Pathway of My Life 1966 - 1986, Pt. 2
01. When the Saints Go Marching In
02. Fiddleitis
03. Maiden's Prayer _ Faded Love
04. Salute to Bob
05. Cold Cold Heart
06. I'm Movin' On
07. Six Days on the Road
08. Walking the Floor over You
09. She Thinks I Still Care
10. Together Again
11. Slipping Around
12. Smoke Smoke Smoke That Cigarette
13. He'll Have to Go
14. Sixteen Tons
15. Pop a Top
16. New Records on the Jukebox
17. Cocaine Blues
18. Bright Lights and Blonde Haired Women
19. What's Made Milwaukee Famous
20. Ace in the Hole
21. Let's Get Drunk and Be Somebody
22. My Rough and Rowdy Ways
23. Drunkard's Blues (Take - 14)
24. Girl in the Night (Take - 19)
25. The Pathway of My Life
26. At Certain Times
27. Mutiny on the Monotony
28. Drunkard's Blues (Take - 9)
29. Girl in the Night (Take - 18)

Pathway of My Life 1966 - 1986, Pt. 3
01. Oklahoma Hills
02. Dusty Skies
03. Dear Okie
04. Oklahoma Home Brew
05. The Everlasting Hills of Oklahoma
06. Take Me Back to Tulsa
07. Guthrie (with Strings)
08. Happy Oklahoma
09. O-K-L-A-H-O-M-A
10. Homesick, Lonesome, Hillbilly Okie
11. Big Boat Across Oklahoma
12. Oklahoma Stomp
13. Guthrie (without Strings)
14. I'm Afraid I Lied
15. But That's All Right (with Strings)
16. One of the Fortunate Few (with Strings)
17. Take It All Away
18. Cozy Inn
19. Everybody Loves a Pretty Baby
20. Where My Sweet Baby Used to Walk
21. Next Time I Fall in Love (I Won't)
22. I'd Do It Again
23. Swing Wide Your Gate of Love
24. Waiting in the Lobby of Your Heart
25. We've Gone Too Far
26. The Wild Side of Life
27. Yesterday's Girl
28. It's Better to Have Loved a Little
29. But That's All Right (without Strings)
30. One of the Fortunate Few (without Strings)

Pathway of My Life 1966 - 1986, Pt. 4
01. I'll Be Around
02. Gloria
03. Glow Worm
04. Be My Life's Companion
05. Paper Doll
06. Till Then
07. You Always Hurt the One You Love
08. Cab Driver
09. Lazy River
10. You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You
11. Across the Alley from the Alamo
12. Promise Her Anything
13. The Mark of a Heel
14. I've Come Awful Close
15. That's Why I Sing in a Honky Tonk
16. Fifteen Dollar Draw
17. Roses in the Wine
18. Teardrops on the Rocks
19. The Older the Violin, The Sweeter the Music
20. Kindly Keep It Country
21. Jill's Jack in the Box
22. The Lord Knows I'm Drinking
23. Loving on Back Streets
24. Southern Loving
25. It's Four in the Morning
26. Behind Closed Doors
27. I Ain't Never
28. A Six Pack to Go
29. When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again
30. Whatever's Left
31. The Corner of My Life
32. I Recall a Gypsy Woman

Pathway of My Life 1966 - 1986, Pt. 5
01. Won't You Ride in My Little Red Wagon
02. Who Left the Door to Heaven Open
03. The Same Old Way (Take - 4)
04. Let It Burn
05. Red Necks, White Socks and Blue Ribbon Beer
06. Country Bumpkin
07. There's a Honky Tonk Angel (Who'll Take Me Back In)
08. Wait a Little Longer Baby
09. Mama Don't Allow No Music
10. Fair Weather Love
11. After You Have Made Me Over
12. That's Just My Truckin' Luck
13. Mississippi Sam
14. Answer Me, My Love
15. Ramblin' Rose
16. Mona Lisa
17. A Blossom Fell
18. It's Only a Paper Moon
19. If I May
20. Too Young
21. The Gypsy
22. Pretend
23. That's All There Is, There Isn't Any More
24. Oh Mary Don't You Weep
25. Annie Over
26. Hangover Tavern
27. She's Just a Whole Lot Like You
28. The Same Old Way (Take - 6)

Pathway of My Life 1966 - 1986, Pt. 6
01. Modine
02. Golden Turnpike in the Sky
03. I Lost My Love to a Truck Drivin' Man
04. Movin' On
05. Trucker's Lullaby
06. Fifteen Miles to Clarksville
07. Asphalt Cowboy
08. Truck Drivers Turn Them On
09. Fifteen Gears
10. Truck It on Down to My House Baby
11. Honky Tonk Girl
12. I'll Sign My Heart Away
13. Yesterday's Girl
14. Another Shot of Toddy
15. Forgive Me
16. Play for Me One Polka
17. Big Band Days
18. Bring Back the Waltzes
19. Three Little Swigs
20. Don't Get Around Much Anymore
21. Bummin' Around
22. Just One Step Away
23. Absent Minded Me
24. Comin' in for Rye
25. Johnny on the Spot
26. Simple Simon, Simple Heart
27. It Gets More Like Monday Everyday
28. When You've Seen One Broken Heart
29. Just an Old Flame
30. Tell Me When the Flag Is Passing By
31. Time Wounds All Heels
32. It's Five O'Clock Somewhere

Pathway of My Life 1966 - 1986, Pt. 7
01. Ages and Ages Ago
02. She Loves the One She's With
03. If Worst Come to Worst
04. Window in My Heart
05. If I Had an Ounce of Sense
06. We Don't Love There Anymore
07. Cheaters Never Win
08. Dance with Me Molly
09. Point of No Return
10. Signs of Love
11. That Want You, Need You, Got to Have You Feelin'
12. Through the Bottom of the Glass
13. I Hear the South Callin' Me
14. Tony's Tank-Up, Drive-In Cafe
15. Money Trouble and Love
16. I'm Just Gettin' By
17. Have a Good Time
18. World's Greatest Feelin'
19. Take Me Back to Tulsa
20. Gettin' Down, Gettin' Together, Gettin' in Love
21. Texans and Okies
22. Rollin' in Your Sweet Sunshine
23. One Hell of a Weekend
24. You're Poppin' Tops
25. Star of the Starlight Saloon
26. The King of Western Swing
27. A Little More Country
28. If I Were in Your Shoes
29. Pistol Packing Mama
30. Driving Nails in My Coffin
31. Whatever Happened to Mary
32. The Convict and the Rose

Pathway of My Life 1966 - 1986, Pt. 8
01. All That Goes Up
02. Big Boat Across Oklahoma
03. Cocaine Blues
04. Drop Me Gently (So My Heart Won't Break)
05. Shame on You
06. Rockin' in the Congo
07. Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima
08. Take the 'A' Train
09. Hello Request Line
10. Let's Stop What We Started
11. Honey's Mobile Love Repair
12. Always a Lady
13. I Woke up with a Few
14. Rainy Days and Whiskey Nights
15. Once in a Blue Moon
16. A Six Pack to Go
17. The Wild Side of Life
18. Oklahoma Hills
19. Breakin' the Rules
20. Blondes with No Last Name
21. Walkin' on New Grass
22. Pick Pocket
23. Honky Tonk Good Ole Gals and Hillbilly Bands
24. I Let Me Heart Do the Talking for Me
25. Swingin' Side of Them Swingin' Doors
26. I Woke up with a Few (Alternate Take)
27. Oklahoma Hills (Live)
28. Wild Side of Life (Live)
29. Green Light (Live)
30. Old Time Fiddle Medley (Live)
31. A Six Pack to Go (Live)



This second Bear Family box set of Hank Thompson's studio recordings picks up where the previous collection ended and includes all his post-Capitol recordings for Warner Bros., Dot, ABC, Churchill, and MCA/Dot during the twenty year period from 1966 through 1986. It was an era when Hank would experiment with new sounds while repeatedly returning to the unparalleled brand of honky-tonk infused western swing that made him a legend.

If one were to completely ignore the achievements of his classic years on Capitol Records and only consider his career from 1966 onward, Hank Thompson would still be regarded as a major country music success story. He placed twelve LPs on the country album chart during this era, including three in the top 20. Additionally, he racked up thirty charting singles, including the top 20 hits Where Is The Circus, He's Got A Way With Women, On Tap, In The Can, Or In The Bottle, Smoky The Bar, Next Time I Fall In Love (I Won't), The Mark Of A Heel, I've Come Awful Close, Cab Driver, The Older The Violin, The Sweeter The Music, and Who Left The Door To Heaven Open.

This 8-CD collection features all the hits, along with every album track, and dozens of rarities and overlooked gems that have never been available on CD before now. Included are complete theme albums such as Hank's tributes to The Mills Brothers and Nat 'King' Cole, as well as his album of songs about Oklahoma, and the instrumental recordings he made with his band, the incomparable Brazos Valley Boys. Also included are more than twenty titles that have never been released in any format, including an album's worth of excellent truck driving songs that were inexplicably shelved until the release of this set.

In addition to the music, this collection comes with a hardcover book featuring a complete discography of Hank's recordings from the era, dozens of photos from his personal scrapbooks, and an in-depth essay by Scott B. Bomar drawn from nearly twenty new interviews with those closest to Hank, and detailing the evolution of a legacy artist finding his place in a changing country music marketplace while continually reasserting the magic of the Thompson touch.

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