Various Artists - The Beginning Of The End: The Existential Psychodrama In Country Music (1956-1974) - New Vinyl 2018 Iron Mountain Analogue RSD Exclusive Compilation with Gatefold Jacket (Limited to 500) - Country

From the people who brought you ‘Hillbillies In Hell’…16 timeless tales of existential angst wrought from backwoods ballads and anguished urbane odes. Plaintive fiddles, furtive banjos and lonesome voices soundtrack a bleak vista of endless, eternal questions and unquenchable wanderlusts. Apocalyptic laments, harrowing self-examinations, faltering ids, devastated inebriates and tortured misfits. Many originally waxed on private press labels and distributed in tiny amounts, these troubled but marginalised troubadours sing of collapsing egos and stygian landscapes of molten self-doubt. Years in the making – ‘The Beginning Of The End’ presents existential howls and Freudian diatribes from broken preachers and disrupted transgressives. All for your bewildered listening pleasure.