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Tom T. Hall
Person · male · United States · Olive Hill · born 1936 · died 2021 · recording since 1968
American country musician (1936–2021)
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Also known as Thomas Hall · Tom T Hall · トム・T・ホール · 汤姆·霍尔
Timeline
35 events▣ Album 32◦ Birth 1★ Debut release 1† Death 1
1930s
1960s
· Debut release
Debut release: Ballad of Forty Dollars / Homecoming
First documented Single in the MusicBrainz discography.
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1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2020s
Biography
English biography1,305 words · 7 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1372810862
Biography
Thomas Hall (May 25, 1936 – August 20, 2021), known professionally as Tom T. Hall and informally nicknamed "the Storyteller", was an American country music singer-songwriter and short-story author. He wrote 12 number-one hit songs, with 26 more that reached the top 10, including the number-one international pop crossover hit "Harper Valley PTA", and "I Love", which reached number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100. He is included in Rolling Stone's list of 100 Greatest Songwriters. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2008, and the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame alongside his wife Dixie in 2018.
Early life and career
Hall was born on Tick Ridge, seven miles south of Olive Hill, Kentucky, on May 25, 1936. As a teenager, he organized a band, called the Kentucky Travelers, which performed before movies for a traveling theater. Hall enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1957, serving in Germany. While in the service, he performed over the Armed Forces Radio Network and wrote comic songs about army experiences. Following his discharge in 1961, he used G.I. Bill educational benefits to enroll at Roanoke College, where he worked as a disc jockey. His early career included being an announcer at WRON, a local radio station in Ronceverte, West Virginia. Hall was also an announcer at WMOR (1330 AM) in Morehead and WGOH (1370 AM) in Grayson, both in Kentucky. Hall was also an announcer at WSPZ, which later became WVRC Radio in Spencer, West Virginia, in the 1960s.
Hall's big songwriting break came in 1963, when country singer Jimmy C. Newman recorded his song "DJ for a Day". In 1964, Hall moved to Nashville and started to work as a $50-a-week songwriter for Newkeys Music, the publishing company belonging to Newman and his business partner, Jimmy Key, writing up to half a dozen country songs per day. Key suggested that he add the middle initial "T" to his name. Hall was nicknamed "The Storyteller", and he composed songs for dozens of country music stars, including Johnny Cash, George Jones, Loretta Lynn, Waylon Jennings, Alan Jackson, and Bobby Bare. He also penned "Hello Vietnam", a song that openly supported the Vietnam War at a time when war-protest songs were beginning to dominate the pop music chart. The song proved to be a hit for country singer Johnnie Wright and was later used by Stanley Kubrick to provide the soundtrack to the barbershop montage that opens his 1987 Vietnam film Full Metal Jacket.
One of Hall's earliest successful songwriting ventures, "Harper Valley PTA", recorded in 1968 by Jeannie C. Riley, hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and Hot Country Singles charts a week apart. It sold over six million copies and won both a Grammy Award and a CMA Award. The song went on to inspire a motion picture and television program of the same name. Hall himself recorded the song for his album The Definitive Collection
The Definitive CollectionSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 24 tracks1Ballad of Forty Dollars3:052Homecoming3:203A Week in a Country Jail3:054Shoeshine Man3:075Salute to a Switchblade3:256The Year That Clayton Delaney Died2:467Me and Jesus3:238Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine4:149Ravishing Ruby2:3210I Love2:0911That Song Is Driving Me Crazy3:1212Country Is2:1313I Care2:0714Deal2:3615I Like Beer2:5616Faster Horses (The Cowboy and the Poet)2:5217Fox on the Run2:0818Your Man Loves You, Honey2:1919What Have You Got to Lose3:1320The Old Side of Town3:0521Jesus on the Radio (Daddy on the Phone)2:2022You Show Me Your Heart (and I'll Show You Mine)2:3023Harper Valley PTA2:5724P.S. I Love You2:26 (as track number 23). His recording career took off after Riley's rendition of the song, and he released a number of hits from the late 1960s through the early 1980s. Some of his biggest hits include "A Week in a Country Jail", "(Old Dogs, Children and) Watermelon Wine", "I Love", "Country Is
Country IsSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 11 tracksA1That Song Is Driving Me Crazy3:06A2Forget It3:30A3Gone to Hell in a Basket2:33A4Who Needs a Baby2:25A5I Feel Like Flying Away2:12A6Country Is2:09B1The Loneliest Girl in the Crowd3:01B2Canadian Women2:17B3You Love Everybody but You2:46B4God Came Through Bellville, Georgia2:33B5Over the Rainbow2:43", "The Year Clayton Delaney Died", "I Like Beer
I Like BeerSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 9 tracksA1Take Me Back to Mulenburg3:04A2I Like Beer3:18A3Fox on the Run2:02A4Rank Stranger3:35A5Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine3:41B1That Song's Drivin' Me Crazy2:33B2Mable, You Have Been a Friend to Me3:20B3John Henry2:46B4All in the Game2:35", "Faster Horses (the Cowboy and the Poet)", and "That Song Is Driving Me CrazyThat Song Is Driving Me CrazySpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 2 tracksAThat Song Is Driving Me Crazy3:08BForget It3:33". One of Hall's best-known numbers, "Pamela Brown", was recorded by Leo Kottke and became a staple of Kottke's performances. Hall is also noted for his child-oriented songs, including "Sneaky Snake" and "I CareI CareSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 2 tracksAI Care2:01BSneaky Snake1:57", the latter of which hit number one on the country charts in 1975. His song "I Love", in which the narrator lists the things in life that he loves, was recorded by Heathen Dan, with completely altered lyrics, as "I Like" and appeared many times on Dr. Demento's show in the early 1980s. Hall's song was also used with altered lyrics and a hard-rock arrangement in a popular 2003 TV commercial for Coors Light. In the mid- to late 1970s, Hall was a commercial spokesperson for Chevrolet trucks.
Hall succeeded Ralph Emery as host of the syndicated country music TV show Pop! Goes the Country in 1980 and continued until the series ended in 1982. Hall largely retired from writing new material in 1986 and from performing in 1994; his last public performance, which was also his first in several years, was in 2011.
Awards and honors
Hall won the Grammy Award for Best Album Notes in 1973 for the notes he wrote for his album Tom T. Hall's Greatest Hits
Tom T. Hall's Greatest HitsSpotifyYouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 11 tracksA1Homecoming3:21A2Shoeshine Man3:08A3I Miss a Lot of Trains2:50A4Salute to a Switchblade3:26A5I Washed My Face in the Morning Dew2:46A6Ballad of Forty Dollars3:06B1The Year That Clayton Delaney Died2:46B2That's How I Got to Memphis3:04B3A Week in a Country Jail3:06B4One Hundred Children2:34B5Me and Jesus3:22. He was nominated for, but did not win, the same award in 1976 for his album Greatest Hits Volume 2. He was a member of the Grand Ole Opry from 1971. In 1998, his 1972 song "(Old Dogs, Children and) Watermelon Wine" came in second in a BBC Radio 2 poll to find the UK's favorite easy listening record, despite never having been a hit in the UK and being familiar to Radio 2 listeners mostly through occasional plays by DJ Terry Wogan.
Hall was inducted into the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame in 2002, and into the Country Music Hall of Fame on February 12, 2008. His wait for these honors was longer than anticipated; Hall attributed it to being somewhat reclusive and "not well liked" among the Nashville music industry, noting that he almost never collaborated with other songwriters, and by the 1990s, was largely out of step with the corporate style of country music.
On June 1, 2014, Rolling Stone ranked "(Old Dogs, Children and) Watermelon Wine" at number 93 on its list of the 100 greatest country songs. In November 2018 Hall and his wife Dixie Hall were inducted together into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame. On June 13, 2019, Hall was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Of all the honors he had received in his lifetime, he considered this induction to be his proudest moment and the pinnacle of his achievement, also stating that he was taken by surprise for even being considered.
Together with his wife Dixie, he won the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America Bluegrass Song Writer of the Year award in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, and 2015.
Personal life
Hall was married in 1961 to Opal "Hootie" McKinney, a native of Grayson, Kentucky. Their son, Dean Todd Hall, was born on June 11, 1961. Dean worked for his father in the early 1980s, first as a roadie and later as a guitarist. Dean has since worked as a solo artist and with Bobby Bare's band.
Hall met bluegrass songwriter Dixie Deen in 1965 at a music-industry award dinner to which she was invited for having written the song "Truck Drivin' Son-of-a-Gun", which became a hit for Dave Dudley. Born Iris Lawrence in the West Midlands, England, in 1934, she emigrated to the U.S. in 1961 and married Hall in 1968, taking the name Dixie Hall. The two were married until her death on January 16, 2015. They lived in Franklin, Tennessee.
Death
At age 85, Hall died at his home in Franklin, Tennessee, on August 20, 2021, of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
Selected discography
In Search of a Song (1971)
We All Got Together and... (1972)
Places I've Done Time (1978)
Song in a Seashell (1985)
Books written by Hall
How I Write Songs, Why You Can (1976), Chappell Music Co. ISBN 978-0882544236
The Songwriter's Handbook (1976), Rutledge Hill Press ISBN 9781558538603
The Storyteller's Nashville (1979), Doubleday & Co.; (Spring House Press, 2016), ISBN 978-1-940611-44-0
The Laughing Man of Woodmont Coves (1982), Doubleday & Co. ISBN 9781557282255
The Acts of Life (1986), The University of Arkansas Press ISBN 9780938626718
Spring Hill, Tennessee (1990), Longstreet Press, Inc. ISBN 9780929264738
What a Book! (1996), Longstreet Press, Inc. ISBN 9781563523403
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 17 | 76.4th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 81 | 97.1th |
| Studio albums | 32 | 98.4th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 35 | 97.5th |
| Recording span (years) | 53 | 93.4th |
| Genres | 5 | 88.3th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (81 release groups · 32 studio albums)
Albums · 32
Ballad of Forty Dollars and His Other Great Songs
1969 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 30:52
A1That's How I Got to Memphis2:58A2Cloudy Day2:52A3Shame on the Rain2:34A4Highways2:07A5Forbidden Flowers2:38A6Ain't Got the Time2:14B1Ballad of Forty Dollars2:54B2I Washed My Face in the Morning Dew2:30B3A Picture of Your Mother2:43B4The World the Way I Want It2:28B5Over and Over Again2:03B6Beauty Is a Fading Flower2:511969 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 32:12
A1A Week in a Country Jail3:00A2Strawberry Farms2:55A3Shoeshine Man3:02A4Kentucky in the Morning2:05A5Nashville Is a Groovy Little Town4:00A6Margie’s at the Lincoln Park Inn3:15B1Homecoming3:16B2The Carter Boys2:56B3Flat‐Footin’ It2:24B4George (And the North Woods)2:35B5I Miss a Lot of Trains2:441970 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 30:11
A1Salute to a Switchblade3:23A2Thank You, Connersville, Indiana3:06A3Do It to Someone You Love2:33A4The Ballad of Bill Crump2:56A5All You Want When You Please2:10B1Chattanooga Dog2:00B2Girls in Saigon City2:57B3Hang Them All2:43B4Coming to the Party2:20B5America the Ugly3:33B6That'll Be Alright With Me2:301971 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 31:12
A1The Year That Clayton Delaney Died2:45A2Who's Gonna Feed Them Hogs2:36A3Trip to Hyden2:54A4Tulsa Telephone Book2:24A5It Sure Can Get Cold in Des Moines2:54A6The Little Lady Preacher2:58B1L.A. Blues2:40B2Kentucky, February 27, 19713:18B3A Million Miles to the City2:53B4Second Handed Flowers2:57B5Ramona's Revenge2:531971 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 28:30
A1One Hundred Children2:30A2I Can't Dance1:18A3I Want to See the Parade3:00A4Sing a Little Baby to Sleep (Ode to Eddie)2:08A5Mama Bake a Pie (Daddy Kill a Chicken)2:38B1Ode to Half a Pound of Ground Round3:04B2Pinto the Wonder Horse Is Dead2:32B3I Hope It Rains at My Funeral3:22B4I Took a Memory to Lunch2:46B5The Hitch-Hiker3:08B6Old Enough to Want To (Fool Enough to Try)2:041972 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 34:58
A1Turn It On, Turn It On, Turn It On4:11A2Souvenirs2:52A3Pamela Brown2:36A4Bourbon Man3:38A5The Promise and the Dream2:50A6She Gave Her Heart to Jethro4:08B1Coot Marseilles Blues3:29B2The Monkey That Became President3:00B3Pratt Street2:08B4High Steppin' Proud2:46B5Me and Jesus3:201972 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 34:35
A1More About John Henry3:29A2When Nobody Wants Your Body Anymore2:46A3Windy City Anne2:48A4The Story of Your Life Is in Your Face2:55A5Willy the Wandering Gispsy and Me2:22A6St.Louis Named a Shoe After Me2:19B1Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine4:09B2The Rolling Mills of Middletown3:50B3Grandma Whistled3:22B4A Piece of the Road3:25B5One More Song for Jesus3:10The Rhymer and Other Five and Dimers
1973 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 28:45
A1Ravishing Ruby2:28A2Don't Forget the Coffee Billy Joe2:42A3Spokane Motel Blues2:40A4Looking Forward to Seeing You Again3:03A5I Flew Over Our House Last Night3:00A6Another Town2:24B1Too Many Do-Goods2:45B2A Song for Uncle Curt2:03B3Man Who Hated Freckles2:05B4Candy in the Window2:42B5Old Five and Dimers Like Me2:53For the People in the Last Hard Town
1973 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 31:56
A1I Love2:04A2Country Cabin-Itis2:46A3Back When We Were Young2:57A4Subdivision Blues2:48A5Running Wild2:17A6Joe Don't Let Your Music Kill You2:24B1Pay No Attention to Alice3:11B2I Know Who I'll Be Seeing in New Zealand3:12B3Never Having You3:08B4Love's Been Good to Me3:41B5Last Hard Town3:28Songs of Fox Hollow: For Children of All Ages
1974 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 22:26
A1The Mysterious Fox of Fox Hollow2:20A2Sneaky Snake1:57A3How to Talk to a Little Baby Goat1:38A4The Barn Dance2:01A5I Care2:02B1Ole Lonesome George the Basset1:55B2I Wish I Had a Million Friends2:00B3Everybody Loves to Hear a Bird Sing2:12B4I Like to Feel Pretty Inside2:20B5The Song of the One Legged Chicken1:54B5I Love2:071974 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 29:15
A1That Song Is Driving Me Crazy3:06A2Forget It3:30A3Gone to Hell in a Basket2:33A4Who Needs a Baby2:25A5I Feel Like Flying Away2:12A6Country Is2:09B1The Loneliest Girl in the Crowd3:01B2Canadian Women2:17B3You Love Everybody but You2:46B4God Came Through Bellville, Georgia2:33B5Over the Rainbow2:431975 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 30:29
A1Deal2:30A2From a Mansion to a Honky Tonk3:38A3The Girl Who Read the Same Book All the Time2:04A4The Trees in Philadelphia2:06A5I Like Beer2:52B1The Fallen Woman3:02B2The Singer’s Song2:48B3Lying Jim2:45B4It Rained in Every Town Except Paducah2:49B5McLeay Street in Sydney2:43B6Sad Song for My Friend3:121976 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 30:43
A1Faster Horses2:50A2It's Got to Be Kentucky for Me2:58A3Big Motel on the Mountain2:45A4No New Friends Please2:56A5Little Brown Suitcase3:15A6I'm a Cowboy Too2:22B1Negatory Romance2:57B2It Feels Better Now2:14B3Beer Drinker's Waltz2:14B4Songwriter2:45B5I'm Forty Now3:271976 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 26:58
A1Fox on the Run2:04A2Paradise2:44A3Mama's Got the Catfish Blues2:10A4Bluegrass Break-Up2:25A5I Don't Want My Golden Slippers2:47A6Molly and Tenbrooks2:18B1The Fastest Rabbit Dog in Carter County Today2:09B2I'll Never Do Better Than You2:37B3Magnificent Music Machine2:16B4Rank Stranger3:05B5Bluegrass Festival in the Sky2:231977 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 31:40
A1Your Man Loves You, Honey2:19A2A Whole Lot of Love2:34A3And I Love You So2:55A4The Little Green Flower With the Yellow on Top2:03A5Lovin' Arms2:38A6Time Takes Care of a Few Things (Love takes Care of the Rest)2:23B1Goodbye Cowgirl2:35B2One of the Mysteries of Life3:23B3It's All in the Game2:49B4Happy Groundhog Day2:49B5I Still Care What Happens to You2:46B6The Way We Were2:261978 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 28:13
A1Come on Back to Nashville (Ode to the Outlaws)2:32A2I'm Not Ready Yet3:39A3Burning Bridges2:59A4Dark Hollow1:53A5I'd Rather Die Young (Than Grow Old without You)2:33B1May the Force Be With You Always2:47B2Whiskey2:33B3No One Feels My Hurt3:03B4Mabel, You Have Been a Friend to Me3:31B5I Wish I Loved Somebody Else2:431978 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 31:19
A1What Have You Got to Lose3:15A2I Couldn't Live in Southern California2:52A3The Grocery Truck2:34A4The Man Who Shot Himself3:14A5Son of Clayton Delaney2:55B1Mr Bo Jangles3:47B2The Three Sofa Story3:39B3The Great East Broadway Onion Championship of 19782:23B4Hat Full of Feathers3:21B5Gimme Peace3:191979 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 26:11
1The Last Country Song2:122Old Habits Die Hard2:173Jesus on the Radio (Daddy on the Phone)2:164The Old Side of Town3:005Greed Kills More People Than Whiskey3:066You Show Me Your Heart (And I’ll Show You Mine)2:267The Different Feeling3:028Girl You Sure Know How to Say Goodbye2:509What Do You Mean When You Say Goodbye2:1410I Left You Some Kisses on the Door2:481979 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 22:08
A1The Saturday Morning Song2:16A2That's Why You Have to Be You2:08A3Pisty2:20A4The Rattle Mouse1:32A5There Is a Miracle in You3:04B1Easter Is2:16B2Halloween Is2:19B3Thanksgiving Is2:15B4Christmas Is2:04B5Your Birthday Is1:541980 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 30:34
A1Soldier of Fortune3:22A2Me and Jimmie Rodgers4:03A3We’re All in This Thing Alone3:21A4Back When Gas Was Thirty Cents a Gallon3:59A5The World According to Raymond2:23B1I’ll Go Somewhere and Sing My Songs Again2:36B2Texas Never Fell in Love With Me2:37B3The Six O’Clock News2:57B4People as Crazy as Me2:21B5Whiskey Castles2:551981 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 26:54
A1Take Me Back to Mulenburg3:04A2I Like Beer3:18A3Fox on the Run2:02A4Rank Stranger3:35A5Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine3:41B1That Song's Drivin' Me Crazy2:33B2Mable, You Have Been a Friend to Me3:20B3John Henry2:46B4All in the Game2:35Everything From Jesus To Jack Daniels
1983 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 29:00
A1Everything From Jesus to Jack Daniels2:58A2How'd You Get Home So Soon2:14A3Barroom Stranger3:10A4Senior Citizen Star2:55A5The Letters2:38B1I'm Just Not an Easy Man to Love2:19B2The Harmonica Man3:41B3The Adventures of Linda Bohannon3:12B4What Am I Gonna Do With My Music2:53B5Wasted, Borrowed Money3:001983 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 28:33
A1Who Do You Pray For3:20A2Say Something Nice About Me2:48A3I Expect the Tears to Come2:22A4Poor Me Pour Me Another Drink4:33A5Let's Do This Again Sometime3:09B1I Love1:45B2Year That Clayton Delaney Died2:15B3Red Hot Memories (Ice Cold Beer)2:39B4I Can't Drink2:51B5The All New Me2:511984 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 28:16
A1Famous in Missouri3:18A2My Heroes Have Always Been Highways2:36A3Before Jessie Died2:39A4They Captured the Outlaw Last Night3:04A5I Only Think About You When I'm Drunk3:03B1P.S. I Love You2:25B2Blackberry Dreams3:13B3Brand New Bartender2:24B4The Whittler2:27B5I See3:071985 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 26:39
A1That Lucky Old Sun2:16A2Bar With No Beer2:52A3I Have Friends2:39A4A Song in a Seashell2:05A5Red Sails in the Sunset2:50B1Down in the Florida Keys2:46B2Love Letters in the Sand2:13B3This Ain't Exactly What I Had in Mind3:36B4Gone Fishin'2:31B5We're All Through Dancing2:511989 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 25:15
A1Let's Go Shopping Today2:53A2Fox Hollow's Animal Train1:50A3Word Song2:02A4Dancing Tree1:57A5Let's Play Remember2:12B1You Are a Star (Brittni's Song)2:31B2Why Is It So Hard to Say No2:33B3Randy Raccoon2:11B4That's What Songs Are For2:11B5Duck and the Rooster2:45B6Let's Spend Christmas at My House2:101996 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 35:54
1St. George Isle4:082Water Blue3:053Lost in Florida3:154Shoes and Dress That Alice Wore2:305Sky Blue True3:566Raking Up Leaves4:337Redneck Riviera3:398You Are My Hero3:569Little Bitty2:2610Ships Go Out4:261997 · studio album
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Tracklist · 11 tracks · 32:11
1Bill Monroe for Breakfast2:202The Beautiful River of Life2:063Legend of the Lady Bear3:064Royal Annie3:375Waiting on the Other Shoe to Fall2:236Local Flowers3:387Watertown, Tennessee2:038The Way I've Always Been4:179Life Don't Have to Mean Nothing at All2:3910Back When the Old Homeplace Was New3:0511What a Song2:572001 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 38:11
1It's Gonna Take More2:352There's Always a Calm4:373Turn It Over to Jesus2:504Lost My Soul to the Devil2:105The Last Family Portrait4:396Are You Building on That Rock?3:237Glory Bound Train2:108Lord I Will2:359You Can Walk That Walk2:4610Lord I Need You More Than Ever3:2011Saved by the Blood3:5012We Still Have Foreverto Go3:16Tom T. Hall Sings Miss Dixie & Tom T.
2007 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 42:41
1I'm a Coal Mining Man2:212A Hero in Harlan3:583One More Last Chance2:544Somewhere in Kentucky Tonight4:045A Headstone for Harry4:086Leaving Baker County2:357One of Those Days (When I Miss Lester Flatt)3:048I'm Gonna Make Up a Song About You2:279Pretty Green Hills4:2410Once Upon a Road4:1311Our Little World3:3712Jimmy Martin's Life Story4:562020 · studio album
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Tracklist · 4 tracks · 11:44
1I Like Beer (Remastered)3:212Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine (Remastered)3:303Ravishing Ruby (Remastered)2:314The Year That Clayton Delaney Died (Remastered)2:222022 · studio album
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Tracklist · 27 tracks · 1:29:41
1Pamela Brown (live 1982)1:582Country Is (live 1982)3:403Ballad of Forty Dollars (live 1982)3:174Homecoming (live 1982)3:035The Year That Clayton Delaney Died (live 1982)3:386Ravishing Ruby (live 1982)3:207I Love (live 1982)2:348I Like Beer (live 1982)4:049Theme From Bonnie and Clyde (live 1982)3:2310Rollin’ in My Sweet Baby’s Arms (live 1982)2:5511Fox on the Run (live 1982)2:1412The Old Side of Town (live 1982)2:4213Mr. Bojangles (live 1982)4:1614(Old Dogs Children and) Watermelon Wine (live 1982)6:1015Faster Horses (live 1985)2:4016Sneaky Snake (live 1985)2:1617I Love (live 1985)2:0418Your Man Loves You Honey (live 1985)2:2119Ballad of Forty Dollars (live 1985)2:4920The Homecoming (live 1985)3:5121Ravishing Ruby (live 1985)2:3722P.S. I Love You (live 1985)3:2123I Like Beer (live 1985)6:0524Old Side of Town (live 1985)3:0425Mr. Bojangles (live 1985)4:0626Whiskey Castles (live 1985)3:1627Old Dogs Children and Watermelon Wine (live 1985)3:57
Single · 22
| Cover | Year | Title | Notes | First release |
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| 1968 | Ballad of Forty Dollars / HomecomingSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 2 tracks · 6:03ABallad of Forty Dollars2:54 BHomecoming3:09 | 28 October 1968 | ||
| 1969 | A Week In A Country Jail / Flat-Footin’ ItSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 2 tracks · 5:24AA Week in a Country Jail3:00 BFlat-Footin’ It2:24 | 1969 | ||
| 1970 | Shoeshine Man / Kentucky in the MorningSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 2 tracks · 5:07AShoeshine Man3:02 BKentucky in the Morning2:05 | 1970 | ||
| 1970 | That'll Be All Right With Me / Salute To A SwitchbladeSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 2 tracks · 5:53AThat'll Be All Right With Me2:30 BSalute to a Switchblade3:23 | 1970 | ||
| 1970 | Day Drinkin’ / Let’s Get On With The ShowSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 2 tracks · 5:24ADay Drinkin’3:16 BLet’s Get on With the Show2:08 | October 1970 | ||
| 1971 | Hello We’re Lonely / We’re Not Getting OldSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 2 tracks · 5:50AHello We’re Lonely3:12 BWe’re Not Getting Old2:38 | November 1971 | ||
| 1972 | Me and Jesus / Coot Marseilles BluesSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 2 tracks · 6:49AMe and Jesus3:20 BCoot Marseilles Blues3:29 | 1972 | ||
| 1972 | More About John Henry / Windy City AnneSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 2 tracks · 6:17AMore About John Henry3:29 BWindy City Anne2:48 | 1972 | ||
| 1972 | The Monkey That Became President / She Gave Her Heart to JethroSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 2 tracks · 7:08AThe Monkey That Became President3:00 BShe Gave Her Heart to Jethro4:08 | 1972 | ||
| 1973 | Ravishing Ruby / I Flew Over Our House Last NightSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 2 tracks · 5:28ARavishing Ruby2:28 BI Flew Over Our House Last Night3:00 | 1973 | ||
| 1973 | I Love / Back When We Were YoungSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 2 tracks · 5:05A1I Love2:06 B1Back When We Were Young2:59 | 1973 | ||
| 1973 | Watergate Blues / Spokane Motel BluesSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 2 tracks · 5:40AWatergate Blues3:00 BSpokane Motel Blues2:40 | June 1973 | ||
| 1974 | That Song Is Driving Me CrazySearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 2 tracks · 6:41AThat Song Is Driving Me Crazy3:08 BForget It3:33 | 1974 | ||
| 1974 | I CareSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 2 tracks · 3:58AI Care2:01 BSneaky Snake1:57 | 1974 | ||
| 1975 | I Like Beer / From a Mansion to a Honky TonkSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 2 tracks · 6:30AI Like Beer2:52 BFrom a Mansion to a Honky Tonk3:38 | 1975 | ||
| 1975 | Faster Horses (The Cowboy and the Poet) / No New Friends PleaseSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 2 tracks · 5:49AFaster Horses (The Cowboy and the Poet)2:51 BNo New Friends Please2:58 | 1975 | ||
| 1975 | I Like Beer / Faster Horses (The Cowboy and the Poet)Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 2 tracks · 5:43AI Like Beer2:52 BFaster Horses (The Cowboy and the Poet)2:51 | 1975 | ||
| 1976 | Bluegrass Festival in the Sky / Fox on the RunSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 2 tracks · 4:23ABluegrass Festival in the Sky2:20 BFox on the Run2:03 | 1976 | ||
| 1977 | It's All in the Game / The Little Green Flower With the Yellow on TopSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 2 tracks · 4:46AIt's All in the Game2:47 BThe Little Green Flower With the Yellow on Top1:59 | 1977 | ||
| 1978 | Salute to a Switchblade / The Year That Clayton Delaney DiedSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 2 tracks · 6:07ASalute to a Switchblade3:23 BThe Year That Clayton Delaney Died2:44 | 1978 | ||
| 1985 | Down in the Florida Keys / A Song in a SeashellSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 2 tracks · 4:51ADown in the Florida Keys2:46 BA Song in a Seashell2:05 | 1985 | ||
| 1986 | Down at the Mall / We're All Through DancingSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 2 tracks · 3:141Down at the Mall3:14 2We're All Through Dancing | 1986 |
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| Cover | Year | Title | Notes | First release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | Tom T. Hall's Greatest HitsSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 11 tracks · 33:29A1Homecoming3:21 A2Shoeshine Man3:08 A3I Miss a Lot of Trains2:50 A4Salute to a Switchblade3:26 A5I Washed My Face in the Morning Dew2:46 A6Ballad of Forty Dollars3:06 B1The Year That Clayton Delaney Died2:46 B2That's How I Got to Memphis3:04 B3A Week in a Country Jail3:06 B4One Hundred Children2:34 B5Me and Jesus3:22 | Compilation | 1972 | |
| 1975 | That's How I Got To MemphisSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 12 tracks · 30:53A1That's How I Got to Memphis3:08 A2I Can't Dance1:18 A3A Week In a Country Jail3:00 A4The Carter Boys2:56 A5Flat - Footin' It2:24 A6Sneaky Snake1:57 B1Country Cabin-Itis2:48 B2Subdivision Blues2:50 B3Never Having You3:09 B4Canadian Women - Canadian Clubs2:17 B5God Came Through Bellville, Georgia2:33 B6Gone to Hell In a Basket2:33 | Compilation | 1975 | |
| 1975 | Greatest Hits, Volume IISearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 11 tracks · 28:481Country Is2:09 2I Love2:06 3The Little Lady Preacher2:53 4Sneaky Snake1:57 5I Like Beer2:52 6Ravishing Ruby2:28 7Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine4:09 8Deal2:30 9Who’s Gonna Feed Them Hogs2:35 10That Song Is Driving Me Crazy3:08 11I Care2:01 | Compilation | 1975 | |
| 1983 | In ConcertSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 12 tracks · 30:29A1Country Is2:20 A2Ballad of Forty Dollars2:40 A3The Year That Clayton Delaney Died2:14 A4Foggy Mountain Breakdown2:00 A5I Know You're Married (But I Love You Still)2:18 A6Don't Tell Ruby Where I'm At2:33 B1Your Man Loves You Honey2:25 B2I Like Beer3:16 B3I Took a Memory to Lunch3:06 B4Sneaky Snake1:48 B5I Love1:44 B6Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine4:05 | Live | 1983 | |
| 1988 | The Essential: Story SongsSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 20 tracks · 1:03:161The Year Clayton Delaney Died2:45 2It Sure Can Get Cold in Des Moines2:55 3Ravishing Ruby2:30 4The Little Lady Preacher2:59 5A Week in a County Jail3:03 6Ballad of Forty Dollars3:02 7The Hitchhiker3:10 8Who's Gonna Feed Them Hogs2:36 9Salute to a Switchblade3:25 10Turn It on, Turn It on, Turn It on4:12 11Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine4:11 12Coot Marseilles Blues3:30 13Don't Forget the Coffee Billy Joe2:44 14Homecoming3:20 15Trip to Hyden2:54 16The Ballad of Bill Crump2:58 17Second Handed Flowers2:58 18She Gave Her Heart to Jethro4:10 19Pay No Attention to Alice3:16 20Before Jessie Died2:38 | Compilation | 1988 | |
| 1988 | The Country Store CollectionSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 14 tracks · 39:361Shoeshine Man3:06 2I Care2:03 3I Like Beer2:53 4Deal2:33 5Negatory Romance2:58 6It's All in the Game2:49 7Senior Citizen Star2:57 8May the Force Be With You Always2:50 9I Wished I Loved Somebody Else2:48 10What Have You Got to Lose3:13 11There Is a Miracle in You3:09 12The Old Side of Town3:03 13Jesus on the Radio, Daddy on the Phone2:18 14Son of Clayton Delaney2:56 | Compilation | 1988 | |
| 1990 | On a Storytellers NightSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 27 tracks · 1:15:261Homecoming3:21 2Salute to a Switchblade3:25 3I Washed My Face in the Morning Dew2:44 4Ballad of Forty Dollars3:04 5The Year That Clayton Delaney Died2:44 6A Week in a County Jail3:04 7Pamela Brown2:36 8Country Is2:12 9I Love2:08 10I Like Beer2:54 11Ravishing Ruby2:31 12Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine4:14 13I Care2:03 14That Lucky Old Sun2:17 15A Bar With No Beer2:55 16Red Sails in the Sunset2:52 17Love Letters in the Sand2:14 18And I Love You So2:54 19Lovin' Arms2:36 20It's All in the Game2:47 21The Way We Were2:23 22Macleay Street in Sydney2:46 23Faster Horses (The Cowboy and the Poet)2:52 24Over the Rainbow2:44 25Love's Been Good to Me3:45 26I Know Who I'll Be Seeing in New Zealand3:15 27Fox on the Run2:06 | Compilation | 1990 | |
| 1991 | Songs (The Storyteller)Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 25 tracks1Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine 2I Love 3Country Is 4The Year That Clayton Delaney Died 5I Like Beer 6Ravishing Ruby 7Ballad of Forty Dollars 8Sneaky Snake 9I Washed My Face in the Morning Dew 10Faster Horses (The Cowboy and the Poet) 11Turn It On, Turn It On, Turn It On 12She Gave Her Heart to Jethro 13That Song Is Driving Me Crazy 14Pay No Attention to Alice 15That's How I Got to Memphis 16Who's Gonna Feed Them Hogs 17Pamela Brown 18I Care 19Homecoming 20A Week in a Country Jail 21One Hundred Children 22Let's Spend Christmas at My House 23Your Man Loves You Honey 24Me and Jesus 25Tom T. Hall Interview | Compilation | 1991 | |
| 1992 | Ballad of Forty Dollars / HomecomingSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 23 tracks · 1:04:331That’s How I Got to Memphis3:03 2Cloudy Day2:57 3Shame On the Rain2:38 4Highways2:11 5Forbidden Flowers2:43 6Ain’t Got the Time2:16 7Ballad of Forty Dollars3:03 8I Washed My Face in the Morning Dew2:44 9A Picture of Your Mother2:46 10The World the Way I Want It2:33 11Over and Over Again2:04 12Beauty Is a Fading Flower2:52 13A Week in a Country Jail3:05 14Strawberry Farms2:52 15Shoeshine Man3:06 16Kentucky in the Morning2:12 17Nashville Is a Groovy Little Town4:05 18Margie’s at the Lincoln Park Inn3:19 19Homecoming3:20 20The Carter Boys3:00 21Flat-Footin’ It2:22 22George (And the North Woods)2:36 23I Miss a Lot of Trains2:46 | Compilation | 1992 | |
| 1992 | 100 Children / I Witness LifeSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 22 tracks · 1:00:151Salute to a Switchblade3:25 2Thank You, Connersville, Indiana3:08 3Do It to Someone You Love2:35 4The Ballad of Billy Crump2:58 5All You Want When You Please2:13 6Chattanooga Dog2:01 7Girls in Saigon City2:58 8Hang Them All (Get The Guilty)2:45 9Coming to the Party2:20 10America the Ugly3:34 11That'll Be Alright With Me2:32 12One Hundred Children2:32 13I Can't Dance2:02 14I Want to See the Parade3:02 15Sing a Little Baby to Sleep2:13 16Mama Bake Me a Pie (Daddy Kill a Chicken)2:43 17Ode to Half a Pound of Ground Round3:08 18Pinto the Wonder Horse Is Dead2:34 19I Hope It Rains at My Funeral3:28 20I Took a Memory to Lunch2:50 21The Hitch-Hiker3:10 22Old Enough to Want You2:04 | Compilation | 1992 | |
| 1992 | Ballad of Forty DollarsSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 12 tracks · 33:151Ballad of Forty Dollars3:01 2Highways2:09 3Myra2:51 4Homecoming3:18 5A Week in a County Jail3:01 6Flat-Footin' It2:19 7Kentucky in the Morning2:09 8Shoeshine Man3:04 9The Year That Clayton Delaney Died2:43 10Strawberry Farms2:50 11One Hundred Children2:30 12Me and Jesus3:20 | Compilation | 1992 | |
| 1993 | Greatest Hits, Volumes 1 & 2Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 22 tracks · 1:03:101Homecoming3:21 2Shoeshine Man3:08 3I Miss a Lot of Trains2:50 4Salute to a Switchblade3:27 5I Washed My Face in the Morning Dew2:46 6Ballad of Forty Dollars3:06 7The Year That Clayton Delaney Died2:46 8That's How I Got to Memphis3:04 9A Week in a Country Jail3:06 10One Hundred Children2:34 11Me and Jesus3:23 12Country Is2:13 13I Love2:10 14The Little Lady Preacher3:01 15Sneaky Snake2:02 16I Like Beer2:56 17Ravishing Ruby2:32 18Old Dogs, Children, and Watermelon Wine4:14 19Deal2:36 20Who's Gonna Feed Them Hogs2:39 21That Song Is Driving Me Crazy3:12 22I Care2:04 | Compilation | 1993 | |
| 1995 | Country Songs for ChildrenSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 18 tracks · 39:341I Love2:08 2Sneaky Snake2:00 3The Mysterious Fox of Fox Hollow2:21 4How to Talk to a Little Baby Goat1:40 5The Barn Dance2:02 6Ole Lonesome George the Basset1:58 7I Wish I Had a Million Friends2:02 8Everybody Loves to Hear a Bird Sing2:13 9I Like to Feel Pretty Inside2:24 10The Song of the One Legged Chicken1:57 11I Care2:03 12Let's Go Shopping Today2:56 13Fox Hollow's Animal Train2:03 14The Dancing Tree2:01 15Let's Play Remember2:13 16Randy Raccoon2:13 17The Duck and the Rooster2:48 18You Are a Star (Brittni's Song)2:32 | Compilation | 1995 | |
| 1995 | Storyteller, Poet, PhilosopherSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 50 tracks · 2:28:36Disc 1 1Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine4:10 2Magnificent Music Machine2:18 3A Million Miles to the City2:52 4I Washed My Face in the Morning Dew2:44 5The Hitch‐Hiker3:11 6Ballad of Forty Dollars3:04 7I Hope It Rains at My Funeral3:29 8Turn It On, Turn It On, Turn It On4:13 9Strawberry Farms2:53 10Watergate Blues3:03 11I Want to See the Parade3:03 12100 Children2:34 13The Year That Clayton Delaney Died2:45 14The Son of Clayton Delaney2:55 15The Old Side of Town3:03 16I Can’t Dance2:03 17Last of the Drifters3:20 18Mama Bake a Pie (Daddy Kill a Chicken)2:43 19A Week in a Country Jail3:04 20Spokane Motel Blues2:42 21Homecoming3:19 22Ravishing Ruby2:31 23Hello, We’re Lonely3:13 24Down at the Mall3:16 25Fox on the Run2:05 Disc 21Shoeshine Man3:05 2Flat Footin’ It2:22 3Old Five and Dimers Like Me2:54 4Willy the Wandering Gypsy and Me2:25 5More About John Henry3:31 6Give Her My Best2:51 7Pamela Brown2:38 8I Flew Over Our House Last Night3:01 9Molly and Tenbrooks2:20 10The Monkey That Became President3:02 11That’s How I Got to Memphis3:02 12Mama’s Got the Catfish Blues2:12 13I Like Beer2:54 14Day Drinkin’3:22 15That Song Is Driving Me Crazy3:08 16Salute to a Switchblade3:26 17Margie’s at the Lincoln Park Inn3:19 18Subdivision Blues2:52 19America the Ugly3:34 20Hang Them All (Get the Guilty)2:46 21Levi Jones3:04 22Faster Horses (The Cowboy and the Poet)2:53 23I’m Forty Now3:30 24Deal2:33 25Me and Jesus3:19 | Compilation | 1995 | |
| 1995 | Loves Lost and FoundSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 13 tracks · 34:101Souvenirs2:55 2Love Letters in the Sand2:17 3I Love2:09 4Old Enough to Want To2:08 5Back When We Were Young3:03 6It's All in the Game2:49 7Negatory Romance3:00 8We're All Through Dancing2:55 9Your Man Loves You Honey2:19 10Do It to Someone You Love2:35 11P.S. I Love You2:29 12Country Is2:12 13One of the Mysteries of Life3:19 | Compilation | 1995 | |
| 1997 | Nashville StorytellerSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 20 tracks · 57:431Mr. Bojangles3:45 2Son of Clayton Delaney2:54 3The Last Country Song2:16 4You Show Me Your Heart (and I'll Show You Mine)2:30 5Jesus on the Radio (Daddy on the Phone)2:19 6Soldier of Fortune3:21 7People as Crazy as Me2:21 8The Six O'Clock News2:55 9The Day That Clayton Delaney Died (live)2:25 10I Like Beer (live)3:28 11I Love (live)1:52 12Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine (live)4:15 13The Great East Broadway Onion Championship of 19782:24 14What Have You Got to Lose3:14 15I Couldn't Live in Southern California2:50 16I Left You Some Kisses on the Door2:51 17The Old Side of Town3:03 18Back When Gas Was Thirty Cents a Gallon4:00 19The World According to Raymond2:24 20I'll Go Somewhere and Sing My Songs Again2:36 | Compilation | 1997 | |
| 1997 | The HitsSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 11 tracks · 31:391Little Bitty2:24 2That's How I Got to Memphis3:02 3Ballad of Forty Dollars3:03 4A Week in a Country Jail3:04 5The Year That Clayton Delaney Died2:46 6Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine4:10 7I Love2:08 8Country Is2:11 9I Like Beer2:54 10Faster Horses (The Cowboy and the Poet)2:52 11That Song Is Driving Me Crazy3:05 | Compilation | 1997 | |
| 1999 | The Best OfSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 18 tracks · 53:261Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine4:13 2Ballad of Forty Dollars3:03 3Homecoming3:23 4The Year That Clayton Delaney Died2:45 5I Love2:07 6Margie's at the Lincoln Park Inn3:21 7Ravishing Ruby2:30 8I Like Beer2:53 9A Week in a Country Jail3:04 10Willy the Wandering Gypsy and Me2:25 11Faster Horses (The Cowboy and the Poet)2:51 12I Washed My Face in the Morning Dew2:44 13Old Five and Dimers Like Me2:55 14That's How I Got to Memphis3:03 15Shoeshine Man3:07 16Nashville Is a Groovy Little Town4:07 17I Took a Memory to Lunch2:52 18I Can't Dance2:03 | Compilation | 5 July 1999 | |
| 2000 | 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Tom T. HallSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 12 tracks · 33:221The Year That Clayton Delaney Died2:45 2Country Is2:11 3Ballad of Forty Dollars3:03 4A Week in a Country Jail3:04 5Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine4:10 6Ravishing Ruby2:32 7I Like Beer2:54 8That Song Is Driving Me Crazy3:08 9I Care2:08 10Faster Horses (The Cowboy and the Poet)2:52 11P.S. I Love You2:29 12I Love2:06 | Compilation | 29 February 2000 | |
| 2001 | The Ultimate CollectionSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 24 tracks · 1:08:011Ballad of Forty Dollars3:05 2Homecoming3:20 3A Week in County Jail3:05 4Shoeshine Man3:07 5Salute to a Switchblade3:25 6The Year That Clayton Delaney Died2:46 7Me and Jesus3:23 8Old Dogs, Children, and Watermelon Wine4:14 9Ravishing Ruby2:32 10I Love2:10 11That Song Is Driving Me Crazy3:12 12Country Is2:13 13I Care2:07 14Deal2:36 15I Like Beer2:56 16Faster Horses (The Cowboy and the Poet)2:52 17Fox on the Run2:08 18Your Man Loves You, Honey2:19 19What Have You Got to Lose3:13 20The Old Side of Town3:05 21Jesus on the Radio (Daddy on the Phone)2:20 22You Show Me Your Heart (and I'll Show You Mine)2:30 23Harper Valley PTA2:57 24PS - I Love You2:26 | Compilation | 2001 | |
| 2005 | In Search of a Song / The Rhymer and Other Five and DimersSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 24 tracks · 1:06:271The Year That Clayton Delaney Died2:45 2Who's Gonna Feed Them Hogs2:36 3Trip to Hyden2:54 4Tulsa Telephone Book2:24 5It Sure Can Get Cold in Des Moines2:54 6The Little Lady Preacher2:58 7L.A. Blues2:40 8Kentucky, February 27, 19713:18 9A Million Miles to the City2:53 10Second Handed Flowers2:57 11Ramona's Revenge2:53 12Ravishing Ruby2:30 13Don't Forget the Coffee Billy Joe2:45 14Spokane Motel Blues2:44 15Looking Forward to Seeing You Again3:07 16I Flew Over Our House Last Night3:03 17Another Town2:29 18Too Many Do-Goods2:48 19A Song for Uncle Curt2:06 20The Man Who Hated Freckles2:08 21Candy in the Window2:46 22Old Five and Dimers Like Me2:57 23Hello, We're Lonely3:12 24We're Not Getting Old2:40 | Compilation | 10 October 2005 | |
| 2006 | The Definitive CollectionSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 24 tracks · 1:08:001Ballad of Forty Dollars3:05 2Homecoming3:20 3A Week in a Country Jail3:05 4Shoeshine Man3:07 5Salute to a Switchblade3:25 6The Year That Clayton Delaney Died2:46 7Me and Jesus3:23 8Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine4:14 9Ravishing Ruby2:32 10I Love2:09 11That Song Is Driving Me Crazy3:12 12Country Is2:13 13I Care2:07 14Deal2:36 15I Like Beer2:56 16Faster Horses (The Cowboy and the Poet)2:52 17Fox on the Run2:08 18Your Man Loves You, Honey2:19 19What Have You Got to Lose3:13 20The Old Side of Town3:05 21Jesus on the Radio (Daddy on the Phone)2:20 22You Show Me Your Heart (and I'll Show You Mine)2:30 23Harper Valley PTA2:57 24P.S. I Love You2:26 | Compilation | 2006 | |
| 2010 | 50 Greatest HitsSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 50 tracks · 2:23:12Disc 1 1I Washed My Face in the Morning Dew2:45 2Ain't Got the Time2:16 3The World the Way I Want It2:32 4Ballad of Forty Dollars3:01 5Cloudy Day2:56 6Homecoming3:19 7Strawberry Farms2:50 8Shoeshine Man3:05 9A Week in a Country Jail3:02 10I Miss a Lot of Trains2:47 11Day Drinkin'3:21 12Salute to a Swtchblade3:25 13Chattanooga Dog2:01 14Ode to a Half a Pound of Ground Round3:07 15One Hundred Children2:30 16Old Enough to Want To (Fool Enough to Try)2:05 17I Can't Dance2:02 18The Year That Clayton Delaney Died2:45 19Tulsa Telephone Book2:23 20It Sure Can Get Cold in Des Moines2:56 21Second Handed Flowers2:56 22Me and Jesus3:23 23The Monkey That Became President3:05 24Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine4:12 25More About John Henry3:31 Disc 21Ravishing Ruby2:31 2Spokane Motel Blues2:42 3Candy in the Window2:47 4Don't Forget the Coffee Billy Joe2:43 5Watergate Blues3:04 6I Love2:08 7Country Is2:13 8That Song Is Driving Me Crazy3:14 9Sneaky Snake2:00 10I Care2:05 11Deal2:36 12I Like Beer2:53 13Faster Horses (The Cowboy and the Poet)2:52 14Negatory Romance2:57 15Fox on the Run2:07 16It's All in the Game2:49 17Your Man Loves You, Honey2:18 18A Bar With No Beer2:55 19Hello, We're Lonely3:12 20The Last of the Drifters3:22 21Shoes and Dress That Alice Wore2:32 22Redneck Riviera3:41 23Ships Go Out4:38 24Bill Monroe for Breakfast2:21 25The Way I've Always Been4:17 | Compilation | 2010 | |
| 2017 | In Concert / Saturday Morning SongsSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 22 tracks · 1:09:391Country Is (live)4:09 2Ballad of Forty Dollars (live)4:11 3The Year That Clayton Delaney Died (live)3:33 4Foggy Mountain Breakdown (live)3:01 5I Know You're Married (live)4:36 6Don't Tell Ruby Where I'm At (live)3:41 7Your Man Loves You Honey (live)3:52 8I Like Beer (live)4:25 9I Took a Memory to Lunch (live)4:31 10Sneaky Snake (live)3:03 11I Love (live)3:03 12Old Dogs, Children & Watermelon Wine (live)5:02 13The Saturday Morning Song2:18 14That's Why You Have to Be You2:10 15Pisty2:22 16The Rattle Mouse1:35 17There Is a Miracle in You3:06 18Easter Is2:17 19Halloween Is2:23 20Thanksgiving Is2:18 21Christmas Is2:06 22Your Birthday Is1:57 | Compilation | 2017 | |
| 2017 | New Train Same Rider / Places I’ve Done TimeSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 20 tracks · 1:00:071Come on Back to Nashville2:38 2I’m Not Ready Yet3:43 3Burning Bridges3:04 4Dark Hollow1:58 5I’d Rather Die Young2:39 6May the Force Be With You Always2:52 7Whiskey2:38 8No‐One Feels My Hurt3:07 9Mabel You Have Been a Friend to Me3:37 10I Wish I Loved Somebody Else2:48 11What Have You Got to Lose3:15 12I Couldn’t Live in Southern California2:53 13The Grocery Truck2:34 14The Man Who Shot Himself3:15 15Son of Clayton Delaney2:55 16Mr Bojangles3:47 17Three Sofa Story3:39 18The Great East Broadway Onion Championship of 19782:24 19Hat Full of Feathers3:22 20Gimme Peace2:59 | Compilation | 20 October 2017 | |
| 2017 | Ol’ T’s in Town / A Soldier of FortuneSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 20 tracks · 57:341The Last Country Song2:18 2Old Habits Die Hard2:21 3Jesus on the Radio2:19 4The Old Side of Town3:04 5Greed Kills More People Than Whisky3:10 6You Show Me Your Heart2:30 7The Different Feeling3:06 8Girl You Sure Know How to Say Goodbye2:56 9What Do You Mean When You Say Goodbye2:19 10I Left You Some Kisses on the Door2:52 11Soldier of Fortune3:22 12Me and Jimmie Rodgers4:04 13We’re All in This Thing Alone3:21 14Back When Gas Was 30c a Gallon4:01 15The World According to Raymond2:25 16I’ll Go Somewhere & Sing My Songs Again2:37 17Texas Never Fell in Love With Me2:38 18The Six O’Clock News2:57 19People as Crazy as Me2:22 20Whiskey Castles2:52 | Compilation | 20 October 2017 | |
| 2019 | Country Classics: American Legends Tom T. Hall (Expanded Edition)Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 11 tracks · 31:561The Year That Clayton Delaney Died2:42 2Me and Jesus (single version)3:20 3I Love2:06 4Homecoming (single version)3:17 5Ballad of Forty Dollars3:01 6Ravishing Ruby (single version)2:29 7Country Is2:09 8Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine4:11 9That Song Is Driving Me Crazy3:08 10Everything From Jesus to Jack Daniels2:57 11Who’s Gonna Feed Them Hogs2:36 | Compilation | 1 November 2019 |
Stats & PK
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| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 17 | 76.4th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 81 | 97.1th |
| Studio albums | 32 | 98.4th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 35 | 97.5th |
| Recording span (years) | 53 | 93.4th |
| Genres | 5 | 88.3th |
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2 shared genre tags · debut 1969, 1 year apart · from United States
28 wikis
Ricky Skaggs
United States · Person
bluegrass music · country music
2 shared genre tags · debut 1971, 3 years apart · from United States
19 wikis
Corb Lund
Canada · Person
bluegrass music · folk music · country music
3 shared genre tags
4 wikis
Willie P. Bennett
Canada · Person
bluegrass music · folk music · country music
3 shared genre tags
4 wikis