Hank Thompson - Pathway of My Life 1966 - 1986, Pt. 1-8 '2013

Tracks list

Tracklist

Pathway of My Life 1966 - 1986, Pt. 1
01. If I Lose You Tomorrow
02. Ill Set My Teardrops to Music
03. Number One on the Hurt Parade
04. Ive 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. Hes 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. Maidens Prayer _ Faded Love
04. Salute to Bob
05. Cold Cold Heart
06. Im 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. Hell 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. Whats Made Milwaukee Famous
20. Ace in the Hole
21. Lets Get Drunk and Be Somebody
22. My Rough and Rowdy Ways
23. Drunkards 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. Drunkards 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. Im Afraid I Lied
15. But Thats 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 Wont)
22. Id Do It Again
23. Swing Wide Your Gate of Love
24. Waiting in the Lobby of Your Heart
25. Weve Gone Too Far
26. The Wild Side of Life
27. Yesterdays Girl
28. Its Better to Have Loved a Little
29. But Thats All Right (without Strings)
30. One of the Fortunate Few (without Strings)

Pathway of My Life 1966 - 1986, Pt. 4
01. Ill Be Around
02. Gloria
03. Glow Worm
04. Be My Lifes Companion
05. Paper Doll
06. Till Then
07. You Always Hurt the One You Love
08. Cab Driver
09. Lazy River
10. Youre Nobody Till Somebody Loves You
11. Across the Alley from the Alamo
12. Promise Her Anything
13. The Mark of a Heel
14. Ive Come Awful Close
15. Thats 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. Jills Jack in the Box
22. The Lord Knows Im Drinking
23. Loving on Back Streets
24. Southern Loving
25. Its Four in the Morning
26. Behind Closed Doors
27. I Aint Never
28. A Six Pack to Go
29. When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again
30. Whatevers Left
31. The Corner of My Life
32. I Recall a Gypsy Woman

Pathway of My Life 1966 - 1986, Pt. 5
01. Wont 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. Theres a Honky Tonk Angel (Wholl Take Me Back In)
08. Wait a Little Longer Baby
09. Mama Dont Allow No Music
10. Fair Weather Love
11. After You Have Made Me Over
12. Thats Just My Truckin Luck
13. Mississippi Sam
14. Answer Me, My Love
15. Ramblin Rose
16. Mona Lisa
17. A Blossom Fell
18. Its Only a Paper Moon
19. If I May
20. Too Young
21. The Gypsy
22. Pretend
23. Thats All There Is, There Isnt Any More
24. Oh Mary Dont You Weep
25. Annie Over
26. Hangover Tavern
27. Shes 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. Truckers 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. Ill Sign My Heart Away
13. Yesterdays 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. Dont 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 Youve Seen One Broken Heart
29. Just an Old Flame
30. Tell Me When the Flag Is Passing By
31. Time Wounds All Heels
32. Its Five OClock Somewhere

Pathway of My Life 1966 - 1986, Pt. 7
01. Ages and Ages Ago
02. She Loves the One Shes With
03. If Worst Come to Worst
04. Window in My Heart
05. If I Had an Ounce of Sense
06. We Dont 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. Tonys Tank-Up, Drive-In Cafe
15. Money Trouble and Love
16. Im Just Gettin By
17. Have a Good Time
18. Worlds 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. Youre 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 Wont 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. Lets Stop What We Started
11. Honeys 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 Thompsons 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, Hes Got A Way With Women, On Tap, In The Can, Or In The
Bottle, Smoky The Bar, Next Time I Fall In Love (I Wont), The Mark Of A Heel,
Ive 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 Hanks 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 albums 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 Hanks 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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