Classic Country: Great Story Songs

about stories. This volume in the Time-Life Music "Classic Country" collection just makes it official. Each song tells a tale-about "The Battle of New Orleans" (a Grammy winner in 1959), "A Week in a County Jail" (a fine example of Tom T. Hall's gift for boiling down an episode from his life into a three- minute single), "Tom Dooley" (the Kingston Trio hit that's credited with starting the story-song movement), and more.

Track Listing

• 1 the battle of new orleans
• 2 big iron
• 3 don't take your guns to town
• 4 cross the brazos at waco
• 5 wolverton mountain
• 6 the ballad of jed clampett
• 7 detroit city
• 8 a week in a country jail
• 9 tom dooley
• 10 old rivers
• 11 the ballad of the green berets
• 12 the carroll county accident
• 13 north to alaska
• 14 saginaw, michigan
• 15 el paso
• 16 big bad john
• 17 a boy named sue [live]
• 18 harper valley p.t.a.
• 19 the devil went down to georgia
• 20 convoy