Storyteller, Poet, Philosopher (Box Set) (CD)

• Category:  Music  »  Country  »  Singer/Songwriter
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• Release Date: November 14, 1995
• Label: Mercury Nashville
• UPC: 731452699220
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106272712
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #55034 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #127120 in Country (See Top 100 Country Bestsellers)
• #59 in Singer/Songwriter (See Top 100 Singer/Songwriter Bestsellers)

Personnel includes: Tom T. Hall (vocals, guitar); Johnny Cash, Patti Page, Dave Dudley (vocals); Jerry Kennedy (6 & 12-string guitars, dobro, sitar); Randy Scruggs (guitar, banjo); Ray Edenton (guitar, mandolin); Dale Sellers, (guitar, dobro); Harold Bradley (guitar, electric bass); Jerry Shook, Chip Young (guitar); Pete Drake (steel guitar, dobro); Weldon Myrick (steel guitar); Bobby Thompson (dobro, banjo); Bill Monroe, Donna Stoneman, Jodi Drumwright (mandolin); Vassar Clements, Johnny Gimble, Murrell Counts (fiddle); Charlie McCoy (harmonica, vibraphone, marimba, bass); Hargus "Pig" Robbins (piano, organ); Bob Moore, Henry Strzelecki (bass); Buddy Harmon (drums).

Producer: Jerry Kennedy.

Compilation producer: Robert K. Oermann.

Recorded in Nashville, Tennessee between 1968 and 1976. Includes liner notes by Robert K. Oermann.

Digitally remastered by Gary Mayo (Polygram Studios).

Besides being one of the finest, most original country songwriters, Tom T. Hall was a key transitional figure between the straight-laced Nashville Sound of the 1960s and the iconoclastic Outlaw Country of the '70s. Hall's uniquely detailed, narrative lyrics were like short stories set to music. Some were character studies ("I Hope it Rains at My Funeral"), some were novelistic observations ("Ballad of Forty Dollars"), and some were well-spun tall tales ("A Week in a Country Jail"), with the best of them included here on this generous two-disc anthology.

Hall's guy-next-door vocal delivery is a perfect, low-key vehicle for his sharply written story-songs, whether he's describing a killer's electrocution ("Turn it On, Turn it On, Turn it On") or an itinerant musician's strained relationship with his father ("Homecoming"). Besides the brilliant writing, the key that really turns the lock here is Hall's indefatigable sense of humor, adding sparkle to even the darkest tales. STORYTELLER, POET, PHILOSOPHER is the definitive collection of this one-of-a-kind artist's work.

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