Hank Williams - Move It on Over: Hillbilly Hero

Title: Move It on Over: Hillbilly Hero Artist: Hank Williams Release Date: 2002 Label: Proper Sales & Dist. Album Type(s): Greatest Hits UPC: 805520012539 Genre: Country Styles: Traditional Country, Honky Tonk 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: 1

1. Calling You
2. Never Again (Will I Knock on Your Door)
3. Wealth Won't Save Your Soul
4. When God Comes and Gathers His Jewels
5. My Love for You (Has Turned to Hate)
6. I Don't Care (If Tomorrow Never Comes)
7. Honky Tonkin'
8. Pan American
9. Move It on Over
10. I Saw the Light
11. (Last Night) I Heard You Crying in Your Sleep
12. Six More Miles (To the Graveyard)
13. Fly Trouble
14. On the Banks of the Old Pontchartrain
15. Rootie Tootie
16. I Can't Get You off of My Mind
17. I'm a Long Gone Daddy
18. Honky Tonkin'
19. My Sweet Love Ain't Around
20. The Blues Come Around
21. A Mansion on the Hill
22. I'll Be a Bachelor 'Til I Die
23. Lost on the River
24. There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight
25. I Heard My Mother Praying for Me
26. Lovesick Blues

Year Type Label Catalog # 2002 CD Proper Sales & Dist. 1253

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Hank Williams' songwriting has ensured his legacy more than anything, and his songs -- which mixed hillbilly elements with blues and gospel, all with a firm grasp of how to shade in some Tin Pan Alley techniques -- crossed over regularly to the pop charts, and have continued to hold up well even into the 21st century. Songs like "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry," which has a spare, poetic structure so efficient it could be a haiku, and "I'll Never Get out of This World Alive," which manages to be funny, ironic, and prophetically frightening all at once, don't happen by accident, and show an awareness of craft that has a good deal more in common with Irving Berlin than it does Uncle Dave Macon. This set has a couple of his better-known songs, including "Lovesick Blues" and the title track, but most of these tracks are on the obscure side, which means this collection needs to be a supplementary purchase rather than an initial one. Williams was remarkably consistent as a recording artist (a fact made all the more amazing when one considers the constant chaos that seemed to dominate his adult life), so even a set of his more obscure sides is still worth having. Williams' darkest, scariest, and most religious material -- some of which is contained here -- gives his canon the kind of depth no other country star of the day could equal. Check out the chilling "Six More Miles (To the Graveyard)" as a case in point. ~ Steve Leggett, All Music Guide

Name Credits Adam Komorowski Compilation Peter Rynston Digital Remastering