Songs for Rounders

Songs for Rounders is an album by country music artist Hank Thompson and His Brazos Valley Boys.

[2] 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.

"[3] The dark subject matter, including a song about cocaine, was controversial and ground-breaking in the country music world of the late 1950s.

[4] AllMusic gave the album a rating of five stars.

[2] Reviewer Bruce Eder called it "maybe Thomposon's best LP.