Turkey leftovers? No, country leftovers. “…and I fell asleep with a troubled dream and dreamed I road on the hellbound train.” Just one line from one track from our Friday morning Deeper Roots show which focuses on some country songs ‘from the edge’. An eclectic blend of sometimes morose and other times kitschy stories of mid-century country singers looking for the next “Big Bad John” with stories of engine mishaps, disturbances of mind and relationships, and the general consensus of lyrical country that ‘the world is a monster’. Hillbillies, rabble rousers, and would-be crooners give us those tormented testimonies of country music. Join Dave Stroud for a very unusual collection of sounds from the archives of the fifties and sixties, when country blossomed; the songs he’s going to feature had a hard time cracking the Top 100 because the stories told are ‘out there’, even for country music.
| No. | Artist | Title | Album | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dick Flood | Hellbound Train | Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974) |  |
| 2 | Bill Anderson | Goodbye Cruel World | Hillbillies In Hell – Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) The Final Chapter | |
| 3 | Rocky Porter | The World Is A Monster | The World Is A Monster | |
| 4 | Johnny Tyler | God's Gonna Turn Us To Dust | Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974) | |
| 5 | Buck Ritchey | The Slave | Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974) | |
| 6 | Anita Carter | Satan's Child | Hillbillies In Hell – Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) The Final Chapter | |
| 7 | Art Kilmer & The Up-Town Four | The Devil's Twist | Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974) | |
| 8 | Roy And Georgia And The SO And SO's | Devil Get Away From Me | Hillbillies In Hell – Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) The Rapture | |
| 9 | David Ingles | (Satan Has Been) Paralyzed | Hillbillies In Hell – Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) The Final Chapter | |
| 10 | Jimmy Minor | Satan's Chauffeur | Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974) | |
| 11 | Steve Bledsoe | Bang, Bang You're Dead | Hillbillies In Hell – Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) The Final Chapter | |
| 12 | The Looper Trio | Life Beyond Death | Hillbillies In Hell – Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) The Rapture | |
| 13 | Danny Dill | The Eyes Of Death | The Hangman's Blues: Prison Songs In Country Music (1956-1972) | |
| 14 | Hank Williams | The Angel Of Death | Hillbillies in Hell Country Musics Tormented Testament Volume 5 | |
| 15 | Autry Inman | Six Rounds Of Love And Hate | Hillbillies In Hell – Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) The Final Chapter | |
| 16 | Johnny Price | Marijuana, The Devil Flower | Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974) | |
| 17 | Don Bowman | Spanish Weed | 1967 (Warped 6706) | |
| 18 | Wendell Austin (And The Country Swings) | LSD | Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974) | |
| 19 | Bud Freeman & The Summa Cum Laude Orchestra | Please Tell The World (A Message From The Grave) | Hillbillies In Hell – Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) The Final Chapter | |
| 20 | Red River Dave | California Hippie Murders | Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974) | |
| 21 | Mel Tillis | Loco Weed (Single Version) | The Best of Mel Tillis | |
| 22 | Olin Bingham | They Wouldn't Listen To A Kid | Hillbillies In Hell – Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) The Final Chapter | |
| 23 | Jack Cook | My Evil Mind | Twisted Tales From The Vinyl Wastelands Volume 1 | |
| 24 | Ray Sanders | Graveyard Dance | Hillbillies In Hell – Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) The Final Chapter | |
| 25 | Bill Carter | Shot Four Times And Dyin' | Twisted Tales From The Vinyl Wastelands Volume 2 | |
| 26 | Travelin' Texans | Beating On The Bars | Twisted Tales From The Vinyl Wastelands Volume 2 | |
| 27 | Len Barrow | Hades Highway | Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974) | |
| 28 | Don Bailey | Fourteen Stories Down | Hillbillies In Hell (Country Music's Tormented Testament 1952-1974) | |
| 29 | Charlie Gore | Sin City | Hillbillies In Hell – Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) The Final Chapter | |
| 30 | Eddie Noack | Ain't The Reaping Ever Done | Hillbillies In Hell – Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) The Final Chapter | |
| 31 | Eddie Noack | Before You Use That Gun | Hillbillies In Hell – Country Music's Tormented Testament (1952-1974) The Final Chapter | |
| 32 | Troy Hess | Please Don't Go Topless, Mother | Hillbillies in Hell Country Musics Tormented Testament Volume 5 | |
| 33 | Jimmy Dean | Big Bad John (Uncensored Version) | Best of Answer Songs vol 3 | |
| 34 | Wanda Jackson | Jesus Put A Yodel In My Soul | Hillbillies in Hell Country Musics Tormented Testament Volume 5 | |