Hank Williams - Hank Williams Revealed

Title: Hank Williams Revealed Artist: Hank Williams Release Date: 11/3/2009 Label: Time Life/WEA, Time/Life Music Album Type(s): Greatest Hits UPCs: 610583316520, 610583323726 Genre: Country Styles: Spoken Word, Gospel, Traditional Country, Cowboy, Poetry, Honky Tonk, Spirituals, Hymns 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: 0 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 3

1. Cold, Cold Heart
2. Move It on Over
3. Lonesome Whistle
4. Long Gone Lonesome Blues
5. Hey, Good Lookin'
6. I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love with You)
7. Why Don't You Love Me
8. A Mansion on the Hill
9. Moanin' the Blues
10. I Just Don't Like This Kind of Livin'
11. They'll Never Take Her Love from Me
12. Mind Your Own Business
13. Lovesick Blues [*]
14. Nobody's Lonesome for Me [*]
15. Twin Guitar Polka [*]
16. Gathering Flowers for the Master's Bouquet [*]
17. Eighth of January [*]
18. Closing Theme [*]

1. That Beautiful Home
2. How Can You Refuse Him Now
3. Lord, Build Me a Cabin in Glory
4. Farther Along
5. Calling You
6. I Am Bound for the Promised Land
7. Dear Brother
8. Jesus Died for Me
9. At the Cross
10. Thirty Pieces of Silver
11. Something Got Hold of Me
12. Lovesick Blues [*]
13. My Sweet Love Ain't Around [*]
14. Fire on the Mountain [*]
15. I Saw the Light [*]
16. Closing Theme [*]

1. Everything's Okay
2. I've Just Told Mama Goodbye
3. Where the Old Red River Flows
4. Alabama Waltz
5. Faded Love and Winter Roses
6. Deck of Cards
7. Just Waitin'
8. I Hang My Head and Cry
9. Orange Blossom Special
10. I've Been Down That Road Before
11. Steal Away/The Funeral
12. Lovesick Blues [*]
13. I Dreamed About Mom Last Night [*]
14. Black Mountain Rag [*]
15. I Heard My Savior Calling Me [*]
16. Closing Theme [*]

Year Type Label Catalog # 2009 CD Time Life/WEA 25256 2009 CD Time/Life Music 24922

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1951 was a breakthrough year for Hank Williams. He had a string of moderate country hits already under his belt, but the release that year of his version of an old jazz age novelty tune called "Lovesick Blues," originally recorded in 1922 by Elsie Clark and given a country arrangement in 1939 by Rex Griffin (the template for Williams' version), suddenly made him a big star. It also meant his touring schedule increased, but he still found time that year to slip into Nashville and prerecord shows for the Mother's Best Flour Company. These good-natured and intimate performances were cut to acetate discs and then played over the air on Nashville's WSM radio station. Brittle, disposable, and made for only a few plays, these acetates were then shelved and forgotten until they were literally rescued from the trash in the '70s by an alert WSM employee. In all, 72 of these shows survived, containing some 143 songs, and this three-disc set is the second installment in Time Life's CD preservation of this amazing treasure trove. The performances are intimate and relaxed, and Williams tackles an amazingly varied set list, singing old mountain ballads, hymns, cowboy tunes, and delivers recitations of parlor poems and other various cautionary tales as well. What emerges is a full, rounded portrait of Williams at his creative and commercial peak. "Lovesick Blues" is here, along with fine versions of "I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love with You)," "A Mansion on the Hill," and the Williams-composed gospel classic "I Saw the Light," among others, including a spirited instrumental romp through the old fiddle tune "Eighth of January," which celebrated the British defeat at the Battle of New Orleans on January 8, 1815 (Jimmie Driftwood added lyrics to the tune and had a huge hit with the resulting "The Battle of New Orleans" in 1959). That these long-lost recordings are an absolute treasure simply goes without saying. Hank Williams was country music's first modern superstar and that all these years later, we are given several hours of Williams performing in an intimate setting just as he was beginning to break across the nation's radar, is nothing short of a miracle. ~ Steve Leggett, All Music Guide

Name Credits Alan Stoker Transfers Bas Hartong A&R Colin Escott Photography, Liner Notes, Reissue Producer F. Keith Adkinson Executive Producer Hank Williams Arranger Jett Williams Executive Producer, Photography Joseph M. Palmaccio Mastering, Audio Restoration Mike Jason Executive Producer Olivia Kim Editorial Research Pete Howard Poster Design Richard Weize Cover Photo