Various Artists - Hillbillies In Hell: The Endless Sleep (1958-1973)

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: IMAR141LP
Barcode: 634707341984
Release Date: 12 Apr 2025
Genre: Country

Limited Edition Deluxe Gatefold LP with exclusive scholarly liner notes by Alvin Lucia!

Full dynamic range 2025 remasters direct from the first-generation analogue master tapes!

Original Cover Art by Eric Adrian Lee!

Limited Edition 666 copies! Non-Exclusive RSD2025 release.

222 (randomly inserted) ‘The Devil's Axeman’ Splatter LPs / 222 (randomly inserted) 'Dante's Blood' Red LPs! / 222 (randomly inserted) ‘River Bottom’ Black LPs!
Down, Down, Deeper and Deeper...

Into the Darkest Underworld: the Secret Museum of Forgotten Country Music Wonders...

Presented here for the very first time are 18 Necrotic Tribulations and dire Death Bed Revelations: Existential Funereal Laments, Hellfire Ill-Portents and pleading Death Row Repents.

Years in the making – ‘Hillbillies In Hell: The Endless Sleep' presents a shadowy Wunderkammer of Red Light Redemptions, blazing Armageddon Hallucinations and lysergic Skeletal Celebrations.

Moments of true Poetic Beauty amidst moments of Vice and cold Vexation.

A haunted backwoods shack of once forgotten 45s: Serpentine Homicides, unspeakable Hayseed Infanticide and mysterious small-town Autocides. Gospel Remedies, Emancipation Homilies and Down-On-Your-Luck Tragedies - most of these sides are impossibly rare and are reissued here for the very first time.
Take a seat and feel the eternal heat...SEE Sanford Clark mourn THE GIRL ON DEATH ROW! HEAR Lawton Williams face the apocalyptic THE BIG FIRE!

Tracks:
Porter Wagoner - Out Of The Silence (Came A Song); Jody Reynolds - Endless Sleep; Waylon Jennings - Delia's Gone; Johnny Darrell - The Son Of Hickory Holler's Tramp; Sanford Clark - The Girl On Death Row; Bob Fry - Ain't No Way Of Winning (When You Lose); Lawton Williams - The Big Fire; Dave Dudley - That Lucky Old Sun; Marijohn Wilkin - Slavery Chain Done Broke At Last; Frank Proffitt - Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down; Evangelist Harold Leake - How Awful Hell Must Be; Loretta Lynn - Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven; Porter Wagoner - Bones; Lee Hazlewood - Ode To Billie Joe; Porter Wagoner - The Carroll County Accident; Charley Pride - The Snakes Crawl At Night; Arkey Blue - Teach My Daddy How To Pray; Lois Jane - The Devil's Train