Hank Williams - A Proper Introduction to Hank Williams: The Final Sessions

Title: A Proper Introduction to Hank Williams: The Final Sessions Artist: Hank Williams Release Date: 10/5/2004 Re-Released On: 10/1/2004 Label: Proper Sales & Dist. Album Type(s): Greatest Hits UPC: 805520060646 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: 1 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. I'd Still Want You
2. Let's Turn Back the Years
3. Window Shopping
4. Jambalaya (On the Bayou)
5. Settin' the Woods on Fire
6. I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive
7. You Win Again
8. I Won't Be Home No More
9. Be Careful of Stones That You Throw
10. Please Make Up Your Mind
11. I Could Never Be Ashamed of You
12. Your Cheatin' Heart
13. Kaw-Liga
14. Take These Chains from My Heart
15. My Son Calls Another Man Daddy
16. You're Gonna Change (Or I'm Gonna Leave) [*]
17. A Tramp on the Street [*]
18. I'm a Long Gone Daddy [*]
19. Lost Highway [*]
20. I'll Have a New Body (I'll Have a New Life) [*]
21. Thy Burdens Are Greater Than Mine [*]
22. There's a Tear in My Beer [*]
23. Wearin' Out Your Walking Shoes [*]
24. There's Nothing as Sweet as My Baby [*]
25. (I'm Gonna) Sing, Sing, Sing [*]
26. I Can't Escape from You [*]
27. Weary Blues from Waitin' [*]
28. Are You Walkin' and a Talkin' for the Lord [*]
29. If You'll Be a Baby to Me [*]
30. Jesus Is Calling [*]

Year Type Label Catalog # 2004 CD Proper Sales & Dist. 2064

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Tall, charismatic, and eschewing rustic hillbilly stage outfits in favor of sleek, tailored Nudie suits, Hank Williams was country music's first true superstar. But it is Williams' songwriting that 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 doesn't really make the ideal introduction to Williams, since it lacks several of his best songs ("I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" isn't here, for instance), but it does have "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive," "Your Cheatin' Heart," and the iconic "Lost Highway," and any collection of Williams songs is going to deliver. He was that good. ~ Steve Leggett, All Music Guide

Name Credits Adam Komorowski Compilation, Liner Notes Bob McNett Guitar Cedric Rainwater Bass Chet Atkins Guitar (Electric) Dale Potter Fiddle Don Helms Guitar (Steel) Eddie Hill Guitar Ernie Newton Bass Farris Coursey Drums Floyd Chance Bass Geraint Watkins Digital Remastering Jack Shook Guitar Jerry Rivers Fiddle Marvin Hughes Piano Sam Pruett Guitar (Electric) Zeb Turner Guitar (Electric)