Various – From Hell To Breakfast – A Taste of Sugar Hill’s Texas Singer-Songwriters

From Townes Van Zandt, generally revered as the Texan music poet, to some of Austin's best recent live acts, The Bad Livers and The Gourds, this compilation covers all the bases of the Texas singer-songwriter tradition. The renaissance man Terry Allen, the witty Austin Lounge Lizards, the current dean of Texas songwriters Guy Clark, this compilation is the perfect introduction to the wealth of great Texas-style music on Sugar Hill Records. 

15 tracks, a truly Texas-sized helping of good music, are on this sampler. With Sugar Hill's incomparable stable of Texas artists, this is one of the best Texas music compilations available anywhere. 

Track Listing:
Terry Allen: 1. Gone to Texas - 6:22   The Gourds: 2. El Paso - 3:07   Robert Earl Keen: 3. Dreadful Selfish Crime - 7:34   Guy Clark: 4. Sis Draper - 3:40   Townes Van Zandt: 5. For the Sake of the Song - 4:36   James McMurtry: 6. Jaws of Life - 5:34   Lee Roy Parnell: 7. Crossin' Over - 5:32   Guy Clark: 8. Old Friends - 3:12   Rodney Crowell: 9. Topsy Turvey - 3:46   The Gourds: 10. Ghosts of Hallelujah - 3:57   Bad Livers: 11. Lumpy, Beanpole & Dirt - 5:16   Terry Allen: 12. Amarillo Highway - 3:52   Austin Lounge Lizards: 13. Old Blevins - 4:45   Townes Van Zandt: 14. Snowin' on Raton - 3:50   Robert Earl Keen: 15. The Road Goes on Forever - 5:02