Porter Wagoner - The Rubber Room
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Artist: Porter WagonerEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2006-09-04
Music Label: Omni
Soundtracks:
- Out of the Silence (Came a Song)
- Rubber Room
- George Leroy Chickashea
- Cassie
- Fairchild
- Indian Creek
- Lonely Comin' Down
- Bones
- Jim Johnson
- Lonelyville
- My Many Hurried Southern Trips
- As Simple as I Am
- Woman Hungry
- First Mrs Jones
- Cold Hard Facts of Life
- Shopworn
- Julie
- Carroll County Accident
- Let Me In
- Wino
- Bottom of the Bottle
- Nothing Between
- Crumbs from Another Man's Table
- He's Alone Again Tonight
- Life Rides the Train
- Little Boy's Prayer
- My Last Two Tens
- Party - Dolly Parton, Porter Wagoner, Porter Wagoner
- Moments of Meditation
Music reviews of The Rubber Room
Music Review: Top Shelf Country Music
Rating: 5 Stars
I purchased this collection under a different title here on Amazon as a set of mp3 downloads rather than as a CD titled "The Rubber Room", but the track listing is identical and the title track of this collection was one of the lures that I'd been wanting in my music collection for the longest time. Five stars, no doubt about it!
Originally I'd been searching for a hard to find Porter Wagoner classic, "The First Mrs. Jones". It had been the lead track from the album "The Cold Hard Facts Of Life". I heard the song once, in the early 80s, when a friend exuberantly played it for me as one of his gleeful thrift store finds, and the song made sufficient impact that 25 years later I was hoping to find it on Amazon. What a wicked and delightful sense of humor Porter Wagoner had! Country music doesn't get any better than this.
But don't neglect or discount the rest of this collection, this is great country music. Give a listen to "Woman Hungry", or the more well-known "Cold Hard Facts Of Life". And the title track, "The Rubber Room"!
Porter's progeny Dolly Parton may have gone on to become a crossover success, but for those of us who relish country music with funky hair, embroidered suits, and lyrics that roam the full spectrum of the human experience, you'd be hard pressed to find a more enjoyable collection of songs.
Description of The Rubber Room
Porter Wagoner is a much misunderstood artist. Singing about the peaks and troughs of the human experience from inside a purple sequinned Nudie suit he has created the most extraordinary catalogue of any country music artist, and quite possibly any popular performer, ever. Don't believe me? Then check out the skull cracking and heart rendering reverberations of The Rubber Room, the troubled soul of George Leroy Chickashea, the desperate howl that is Lonely Coming Down and the seething hurt that is Fairchild. Yet amongst this human train-wreck there are jewels of burning pathos and profound spirituality like Moments of Meditation and Little Boy's Prayer. It is indeed this collision of an image that is at times admittedly pure kitsch, with songs and a delivery that are soul-shakingly sincere, that makes Porter Wagoner perhaps the most compelling recording artist of all time. Still not convinced? Then go now, right now, and listen to The Party by Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton. For the first time the darker, more poetic highlights of Porter Wagoner's astounding career have been compiled with love and care, featuring a slew of tracks never before sighted on CD. Once you have heard this album you will never be quite the same ever again!Psychotronic, dark, heartfelt country... with a touch of showbiz! First time on CD! Deluxe collectors 16 page package featuring original LP artwork and exclusive liner notes. All tracks are remastered in 2006 from the original master tapes! Compiled and curated by noted musician (Snog, Soma, Black Lung) and film composer David Thrussell.Christian & Gospel CDs
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