Various Artists
Age Of Worry - From Country-Pop To Freak-Folk: The Space Age Relics Of Monument Records 1960-1970
Release Date: 12/04/2020
Format: LP
Label: The Iron Mountain Analogue Research Facility – IMAR 124LP
Release type: Limited Colored Vinyl LP Pressing
- Limited Edition Deluxe Gatefold LP with exclusive scholarly liner notes by Alvin Lucia
- Full dynamic range 2020 remasters direct from the first-generation analogue master tapes
- Limited Edition 500 LPs – 250 ‘Nuclear Winter’ white vinyl / 250 ‘Failsafe’ black vinyl (randomly inserted)
From the people who brought you Hillbillies In Hell…
Smooth countrypolitan sides of Doom, Apocalyptic Shag-Cowpokes, anti-Vietnam War Freak-Folkies, small-town Hayseed-Vignettes, ambulance-chasing Bluegrass, red-baiting exploitation-jangle-Folk-Pop and wigged-out Nashville space-age Instrumentals – you’ll hear all that and much more on this extraordinary LP…
Charting the tumultuous decade of 1960-1970, ‘Age Of Worry’ presents 18 somewhat nervous and seldom-heard oddities, obscurities and treasures from the depths of the Monument Records vault. Sometimes outrageous, sometimes sublime – listen to Vern Stovall lament the maudlin fate of ‘Code Alarm 7’, Rusty Draper on tortured suburban ennui and Captain Ty Herrington on emasculated masculinity.
A spellbinding disc of Country Pop, Bluegrass, Folk and Novelty sides all touched in one way or another by Cold War tension and the changing tides of 1960s society. Many of these 45 cuts are extremely rare and are reissued here for the very first time.
Somehow, somewhere…something for everyone…
- Billy Walker - Age Of Worry
- Durwood Haddock - I’m Gonna Quit Thinking
- Billy Graves - The Lonesome Ape
- Rusty Draper - Every Man Has A Prison
- Durwood Haddock - Mac The Merchant
- Carl Vaughn - Love Thy Neighbor
- Ray Corbin - Life Doesn’t Move Me
- Tex Williams - The Night Miss Nancy Ann’s Hotel For Single Girls Burned Down
- Freddie Hart And The Heartbeats – That Almighty Dollar
- Jimmy Driftwood - What Is The Color Of The Soul Of A Man
- Grandpa Jones & His Grandchildren - The Ladies Man
- Don Reno - (My Mammy’s Miss America) My Daddy’s Uncle Sam
- Vern Stovall - Code Alarm 7
- Paul Clayton - Life Is A Toil
- Kenny Jones - Is This The Way Of The Free?
- The Charades - Left Wing Birds
- Capt. Ty Herrington (U.S. Special Forces - Green Berets) - A Gun Don’t Make A Man
- The Navigators - Space Coup
