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Personnel: Porter Wagoner (vocals); Jerry "Chip Young" Stembridge, George W. McCormick (guitar); Grady Martin (electric guitar, organ); James Capps, Jerry Reed Hubbard, Wayne Moss (electric guitar); Lloyd Green, Pete Drake (steel guitar); Shot Jackson (dobro); Mack Magaha, Buddy Spicher (fiddle); Onie Wheeler (harmonica); Hargus "Pig" Robbins (piano, organ); James Carlisle Isbell, Buddy Harman (drums). Recording information: 06/07/1965-03/04/1970. Illustrators: Les Leverett; R.A. Andreas. Photographers: Les Leverett; R.A. Andreas. The dark prince of the classic honky-tonk era, Porter Wagoner drew his best material from a dark source, as evidenced by this definitive three-disc collection of his finest work, THE COLD HARD FACTS OF LIFE. From the story song "Carroll County Accident" to the chilling murder ballad that gives this anthology its title, Wagoner excelled at a deadpan delivery of tunes that stared mortality square in the eye. But no matter how low-down Wagoner gets on his tales of woe and longing, the roadhouse-rocking feel of these tracks keeps things from ever leaning too far towards the morose.