Hank Williams - The Unreleased Recordings: Gospel Keepsakes

Title: The Unreleased Recordings: Gospel Keepsakes Artist: Hank Williams Release Date: 4/7/2009 Re-Released On: 4/14/2009 Label: Time/Life Music Album Type(s): Greatest Hits UPC: 610583299229 Genre: Country Styles: Gospel, Traditional Country, Honky Tonk, Country Gospel Moods: Earthy, Freewheeling, Lively, Melancholy, Organic, Passionate, Plaintive, Reckless, Rollicking, Rousing, Rustic, Swaggering, Yearning, Autumnal, Bittersweet, Bleak, Cathartic, Gritty, Playful, Rambunctious, Sad, Wistful, Earnest, Poignant, Spiritual, Exuberant, Intimate, Somber Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 2 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. I'm Gonna Sing
2. I Heard My Savior Calling Me
3. Precious Lord, Take My Hand
4. I've Got My One-Way Ticket to the Sky
5. Thirty Pieces of Silver
6. When God Dips His Love in My Heart
7. Farther Along
8. From Jerusalem to Jericho
9. When the Fire Comes Down
10. Drifting Too Far from the Shore
11. The Old Country Church
12. Lonely Tombs
13. Where the Soul Never Dies
14. Where He Leads Me
15. I Saw the Light

Year Type Label Catalog # 2009 CD Time/Life Music 24587

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Hank Williams is one of those recording artists who ended up releasing more material after his death (in 1953) than he did before it, and since he regularly performed on various radio shows throughout his brief career, transcriptions of these performances keep popping up. The performances collected here were drawn from radio shows Williams did in 1951 for Mother's Best Flour. He would usually end his segment on the show with a gospel song or a spiritual, and several of these are combined here to make an interesting alternate portrait of Williams, one that reveals a childhood spent listening to his mother Lillie, a single parent and Williams' only real anchor, play hymns at the organ while he sat beside her. Williams' songwriting style, with its easy to remember melodies and unadorned but often elegantly structured lyrics, stems directly from the organ spirituals of his childhood. One of the best examples of this, his "I Saw the Light," is included here, along with Williams' takes on more traditional gospel material and one other Williams-penned song, the delightful "I'm Gonna Sing." It's not honky tonk. It's what you sing the next day. ~ Steve Leggett, All Music Guide

Name Credits Alan Stoker Disc Transfers Colin Escott Compilation Producer, Reissue Producer, Photo Courtesy, Liner Notes F. Keith Adkinson Compilation Producer, Executive Producer Jett Williams Compilation Producer, Executive Producer Joseph M. Palmaccio Mastering, Audio Restoration, Remastering Mike Jason Executive Producer, Compilation Producer Olivia Kim Editorial Research