Name: The Social World of Rodger Wilhoit
Brand: Rodger Wilhoit

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

SMR001.

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Colour

black

Colour details

Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Deluxe Gatefold Sleeve with Printed Inner Sleeve, Expanded with Bonus Tracks

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-03-05

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Forte

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

7350107320208

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Rodger Wilhoit 

Genre GB

Country / Americana

Label GB

Sweet Mental Revenge Records

Ultra rare country / hardcore honky-tonk masterpiece from 1974. Extensive liner notes by Grammy Award winner Colin Escott. Carefully restored and remastered sound. Country music has chased piety, poetry, and much else, but The Social World is unapologetic hardcore, beer-sodden country music reduced to its core values. No faking. No pretension. Spare, unornamented, and straight from the heart, the songs on the “Social World” of Rodger Wilhoit are all that’s holy and true in beerhall country music. The instrumentation is only as full as it needs to be. The singing is careworn and deeply sincere. There’s nothing tentative or lukewarm in Wilhoit’s music. It isn’t going to meet you halfway.

It seems that there’s always more to discover. Most copies of Social World and Rodger’s singles were probably sold off the bandstand 40 or 50 years ago. They were among the thousands of records by local artists on local labels sold off local bandstands all across the country. Most ended up in garage sales, thrift shops, or landfill. But every so often, an artist will be resurrected, and find a new audience. Rodger Wilhoit is one such singer. At a time when most mainstream Nashville country music sounds so contrived and empty, it takes an artist like Rodger Wilhoit to remind us what it’s really all about.

The Social World of Rodger Wilhoit

Music GB