Wild Side of Life [Import]

Hank Thompson | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 15, 2004)
• Original Release Date: 2004
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Proper Introduction
• ASIN: B00069I7XC
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #230,204 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Californian Women

2. (I've Got A) Humpty Dumpty Heart

3. The Green Light

4. Woah Sailor

5. The Wild Side of Life

6. Waiting in the Lobby of Your Heart

7. Rub-A-Dub-Dub

8. Yesterday's Girl

9. Wake Up Irene

10. A Broken Heart and a Glass of Beer

11. A Cat Has Nine Lives

12. Swing Wide Your Gate of Love

13. I Find You Cheatin' on Me

14. Tomorrow Night

15. Humpty Dumpty Boogie

16. Hangover Heart

17. Soft Lips

18. She's a Girl Without a Sweetheart

19. The Grass Looks Greener

20. If I Cry

See all 30 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A great Thompson primer, June 8, 2007

By 

Lord Rockingham "Pop culture vulture" (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Wild Side of Life (Audio CD)

To read, in the discography included with this CD, that one of the tracks was recorded in the "Capitol Lounge at Sunset and Vine" is to experience a certain frisson of longing for a - perhaps imagined? - Golden Age of music recording. But that's not to say that this music sounds at all dated. This is a super - and super-value - selection of 30 tracks of great, straight-ahead Texan country music. Thompson's voice is reminiscent of that of another Hank (Williams) but with a smoother, almost crooner-ish edge to it. The musicianship is superb and there's some killer steel guitar work here, particularly on "Waiting in the Lobby of Your Heart" (a title, surely, worthy of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band) where it's played, to sometimes eerie effect, by Curly Chalker. Many of the tracks are transcription recordings and considering their vintage - the earliest is from 1946, the latest from '53 - the sound quality on this disc is consistently very good. Add to this a nicely produced fold-out cardboard sleeve, a booklet with liner notes by Adam Komorowski and a useful discography and you have a very attractive package. This is true, popular country music before much of it became a slickly-produced marketing exercise.