Porter Wagoner

WFMU’s blog has a collection of albums cover and mp3s by country music giant “Porter Wagoner, The Last Great Hillbilly?,” including a few spoken story songs, like “Confessions Of A Broken Man” (3:00 mp3):

And “Wino” even adds some sound effects (2:08 mp3):

Wagoner “conducted field research by visiting the Skid Rows of Chicago and Minneapolis, dressed in disheveled attire, the better to soak up the seedy atmosphere.”