2008 three CD set housed in a digipak, featuring six best-selling concept albums that gave the Country Music superstar Porter Wagoner a cult following: Confessions Of A Broken Man (1966); Soul Of A Convict (1967); The Cold Hard Facts Of Life (1967); The Bottom Of A Bottle (1968); The Carroll County Accident (1969) and Down In The Alley-Skid Row Joe' (1970). Seventy gripping 'slice of life' songs and recitations including such memorable Top 5 Billboard Country chart hits as 'Green, Green Grass Of Home', 'Skid Row Joe; The Cold Hard Facts Of Life' and 'The Carroll County Accident'. Features a rogue's gallery of murderers, philanderers, depressives, death-row inmates, unrepentant barflies, panhandling winos and other losers. Includes extensive notes covering these fascinating albums and Wagoner's life and career.................... CD 1: CONFESSIONS OF A BROKEN MAN 1. Men With Broken Hearts 2. I Just Came To Smell The Flowers 3. May You Never Be Alone 4. Skid Row Joe 5. Take Me Back And Try Me One More Time 6. How Far Can I Go? 7. I'm A Long Way From Home 8. Confessions Of A Broken Man 9. My Tears Are Overdue 10. I've Been Down That Road Before 11. Thy Burdens Are Greater Than Mine 12. My Last Two Tens SOUL OF A CONVICT 1. Boston Jail 2. The Convict And The Rose 3. I Relived My Life Today 4. I'm Just Here To Get My Baby Out Of Jail 5. Let Me In 6. The Big River Train 7. The Snakes Crawl At Night 8. They're All Going Home But One 9. Folsom Prison 10. Soul Of A Convict 11. Green Green Grass Of Home 12. (I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle............. CD 2: THE COLD HARD FACTS OF LIFE 1. The First Mrs. Jones 2. Words And Music 3. The Cold, Hard Facts Of Life 4. Sleep 5. Hundred Dollar Funeral 6. If I Could Only Start Over 7. Tragic Romance 8. Try Being Lonely 9. I'll Get Ahead Some Day 10. I Just Can't Let You Say Goodbye 11. Shopworn 12. Julie THE BOTTOM OF THE BOTTLE 1. Wino 2. Daddy And The Wine 3. Swinging Doors 4. The Bottom Of The Bottle 5. In The Shadows Of The Wine 6. She Burnt The Little Roadside Tavern Down 7. The Bottle Let Me Down 8. One Dime For The Wine 9. Wine 10. Turn The Juke Box Up Louder 11. I Threw Away The Rose 12. Bottle, Bottle................ CD 3: THE CARROLL COUNTY ACCIDENT 1. The World Needs A Washin' 2. Banks Of The Ohio 3. Sing Me Back Home 4. Barefoot Nellie 5. Sorrow Overtakes The Wine 6. Black Jack's Bar 7. The Carroll County Accident 8. Rocky Top 9. Your Mother's Eyes 10. King Of The Cannon County Hills 11. I Lived So Fast And Hard 12. Fallen Leaves DOWN IN THE ALLEY 1. Here's A Toast To Mama 2. Sidewalks Of Chicago 3. The Silent Kind 4. The Alley 5. The Town Drunk 6. Mama 7. Bottle Of Wine 8. One More Dime 9. I Judged A Man 10. When I Drink My Wine