Cold War Countdown: Country Music Goes To Cold War (1952-1972)

Iron Mountain Analogue Research Facility – IMAR 117

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Compilation
Country: US
Released: April 13, 2019
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Country
[Tracklist]
A1 God Please Protect America: Moore & Napier (2:34)
A2 I'm No Communist: Grandpa Jones (2:28)
A3 Ain't I Right: Johnny Freedom (3:14)
A4 Freedom Monkey: Doc Williams (2:40)
A5 The Bearded Bandit of Cuba: Art & Glenda Davis (2:10)
A6 The Bay of Pigs: Red River Dave (2:22)
A7 Ballad of Two Brothers: Autry Inman (3:30)
A8 Fall-Out: Red Castle (2:02)
B1 Little Boy Soldier: Wanda Jackson And The Party Timers (2:36)
B2 Crazy Viet Nam War: Stringbean and His 5 String Banjo (2:42)
B3 Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town: Mel Tillis (2:46)
B4 Congratulations (You Sure Made A Man Out of Him): Arlene Harden (4:00)
B5 One More Time, Billy Brown: The Shacklefords (4:02)
B6 The Patriot: Marie Roberson (2:14)
B7 The Craziest War of the Universe: Jefferson County Bluegrass Boys (2:34)
B8 The War Keeps Draggin' On: The Wilburn Brothers (2:54)
[Notes]
War, Patriotism, Pathos, Paranoia and Propaganda in the Country Music Experience. Vinyl Relics recovered from abandoned Fall-Out Shelters and excavated from beneath wastelands of Radioactive Rubble… Country Music Artefacts from the Cold War Era: Hyper-Patriotic Anthems, Delirious Cowpoke Agitprop Diatribes, Peacenik Protestations and Heartfelt Homefront Lamentations. Years in the making – 'Cold War Countdown’presents 16 tempestuous tirades of Red-Scare Pinko-Subversion, Iron Curtain-Clad Simian Freedom Fighters, Bearded Despots, Flower Power Fall-Out, the War Wizened, the Walking Wounded and Heart-Wrenching Fallen Heroes. Often originally waxed on microscopic labels and distributed in minuscule amounts, these Broadside Balladeers decry the Worldwide Communist Conspiracy, Apocalyptic Holocausts, Bureaucratic Mission Creep and Problematic Personal Grooming. A Red-Hot fission of Atomic-Era 45s – some of these sides are impossibly rare and are reissued here for the very first time. All for your End-Times Bunker listening pleasure.