VA ~ Troubled Troubadours [Omni Recording Corporation, 2010]

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01. Marty Robbins - The Chair
02. Waylon Jennings - Delia's Gone
03. Dolly Parton - The Bridge
04. Lorene Mann - Hide My Sin [A.b.o.r.t.i.o.n N.e.w Y.o.r.k]
05. Mark Slade - Are They Gonna Shoot God?
06. Dolly Parton - Daddy Come And Get Me
07. Porter Wagoner - Waldo The Weirdo
08. Bobby Bare - Big Ben Colson
09. Roger Miller - The Animal Of Man
10. Justin Tubb - The Family Way
11. Hank Williams Jr. - No Meaning And No End
12. Justin Tubb - The River Road Mystery
13. Norma Jean - Teddy Bear Song
14. Lawton Williams - Cold, Cold Hands
15. Trooper Jim Foster - Four Chrome Wheels
16. Henson Cargill - Daddy, What's A Tree?
17. Hank Williams Jr. - The Rainmaker
18. Arlene Harden - Congratulations [You Sure Made A Man Out Of Him]
19. Hugh X. Lewis - War Is Hell
20. Autry Inman - The Ballad Of Two Brothers
21. Stonewall Jackson - Push The Panic Button
22. Bobby Bare - Your Credit Card Won't Get You Into Heaven
23. Homer and Jethro - I Crept Into The Crypt and Cried
24. Lester Flatt - I Can't Tell The Boys From The Girls
25. Homer And Jethro - I Couldn't Spell Pffft
26. Roger Miller - Whistle Stop
27. Burl Ives - The Times They Are A Changin'



'27 tales from the dark and/or strange side of the tracks [1965-73]. Lust, murder, alienation, war, depravity and credit cards. Troubled times demand troubled troubadours. And here they are. 27 tales of misfortune, desperation, woe and just plain high weirdness, delivered by a stellar cast of country music luminaries. First up, Marty Robbins sits us in The Chair, the grizzly, bathetic final resting place of a man about to be electrocuted for his crimes. Next Waylon Jennings takes us to a haunting graveside confessional and then Dolly Parton places her final steps high upon The Bridge. You get the idea.

In that seminal epoch of the late 1960s and 70s, the times were a changin'€™ and it clearly wasn't always for the better. Autocide, infanticide, deicide and the desire to transmigrate into a stuffed toy are just some of the low-lights presented for your masochistic/musical pleasure.' press



by request, another superlative document of leftfield country jams from omni, nearly approaching the unhinged genius of plantation gold. before laying ears pon this mess, i pretty much figured hank williams jr was completely worthless, but his two contributions here are mighty fine indeed. & check out young dolly before she got eaten up by the star-making machinery, waylon jennings' version of 'house of the rising sun', plus a cupple dozen other weirds. one that demands repeated glistening fer full creeping seepage, tho i coulda done without ever hearing burl ives, i fink. 320 er FLACK + skannage

VA ~ Nashville Sputnik: The Deep South Outer Space Productions of Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan 1956-2004 [Omni Recording Corporation, 2008]

OMNI112

01. Strange New World - Jacqueline Hyde and the Moonfolk (1965)
02. The Lonely Sentry - Rusty Diamond, with guest star Maryanne Mail (1965)
03. We Walked This Road Before - Brad Wolfe (1971)
04. Time Machine - Joel Mathis (1971)
05. Skellykins - Rusty Diamond (1966)
06. Yellow Bellied Sap Sucker - Hank Malcolm (1964)
07. Gemini - The Jack Blanchard Group (1964)
08. Lonely Bell - Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan (1967)
09. Mary Turn Around - Hank Malcolm (1964)
10. Changin' Times - Brad Wolfe (1967)
11. I'm Hung Up On You - Rusty Diamond, the Country Nut (1965)
12. Boy With The Be-Bop Glasses - The Dawn Breakers (1956)
13. Hit Me One More Time - Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan (1967)
14. Let's Have A Hayride - Maryanne Mail (1965)
15. Cadillac - Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan (1968)
16. Little Orphan Annie - Joel Mathis (1971)
17. Midnight Greyhound - Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan (1967)
18. Here Today, Gone Tomorrow - Donel Austin (1973)
19. New World - The Jack Blanchard Group (1964)
20. Runaway - Jacqueline Hyde and the Moonfolk (1965)
21. The King Of Hearts - Jackie Blanchard and The Rockin' Impallas (1960)
22. Journey's End - Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan (1967)
23. Monkey See Monkey Do - Hank Malcolm (1964)
24. The Love Habit - Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan (1973)
25. I'm Feelin' A Change in My Life - Donel Austin (1973)
26. The Look Of Nothing - Tom Carlile (1974)
27. Somewhere In Virginia In The Rain (Disco) - Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan (1974)
28. Don't It Look Like Georgia - Tom Carlile (1974)
29. Dance of the Living Dead Chickens - Jack Blanchard (1993)
30. A Weird Little Christmas - Jack Blanchard (2004)



'Imagine if the flying-saucer that dropped legendary producer Joe Meek in London had instead taken a left turn and landed in Nashville U.S.A. The result might have sounded something like this. Almost... Jack Blanchard and Misty Morgan will forever be remembered for the novel pathos of hits like Tennessee Bird Walk and Somewhere In Virginia In The Rain. But before the bright lights of stardom found them Jack and Misty were busy working underground, writing and producing superb cuts for a fascinating cast of characters and talents who are today, unjustly, largely forgotten

Hear Jacqueline Hyde And The Moonfolk take a rocket-ship into outer [& inner] space, Rusty Diamond have an existential moment on the battle-front, Brad Wolfe investigate reincarnation and Joel Mathis evaporate into the past on his Time Machine amidst a carnival of other sonic wonders. Once heard this disc will inspire sounds you've never heard before and thoughts you've never thought before. It's kind-a-country, kind-a-pop, kind-a-weird – so strap in…another world awaits!' press

how nice to see our friend spooky's triumphant return to contributing here at der warbler. keep it up hombre. recently had a request fer this quixotic collection of leftfield country jams penned by the twisted songwriting partnership of jack blanchard & misty morgan [responsible fer such disorienting & timeless classics as the tennessee birdwalk], so now everyone may benefit(?) from some anonymous weird beard's questionable taste in the bizarre. too many jams, some as strangely compelling & catchy as they are tripped out, revelated by the same folks who brought us the superlative plantation gold