Songs for Rounders


Songs for Rounders is an album by country music artist Hank Thompson and His Brazos Valley Boys. It was released in 1959 by Capitol Records. Ken Nelson was the producer. It was Thompson's first stereo album.
As noted in its liner notes, the album told stories of "tarnished heros... rounders, bounders, fourflushers and bums... rolling stones who go through life itching for trouble and finding it." The dark subject matter, including a song about cocaine, was controversial and ground-breaking in the country music world of the late 1950s.
The album was released prior to the establishment of the Billboard Top Country Albums chart in 1964.
AllMusic gave the album a rating of five stars. Reviewer Bruce Eder called it "maybe Thomposon's best LP."

Track listing

Side A
  1. "Three Times Seven"
  2. "I'll Be a Bachelor Till I Die"
  3. "Drunkards' Blues"
  4. "Teach 'Em How to Swim"
  5. "Dry Bread"
  6. "Cocaine Blues"
Side B
  1. "Deep Elm"
  2. "Just Bummin' Around"
  3. "Little Blossom"
  4. "Rovin' Gambler"
  5. "Left My Gal in the Mountains"
  6. "May I Sleep in Your Barn Tonight Mister?"