Hank Williams Sr - The Complete Hank Williams \
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Canadian Music Store Music CD CoverArtist: Hank Williams SrEdition: Music CD Format: Box set, Original recording remastered CD Release Date: 1998-09-22 Music Label: Mercury Nashville Soundtracks: Music CD 1
Free Music Notes for The Complete Hank Williams \Free Music Review: The core foundation purchase for all country and rock fans!
You know that Hank was country's most reverred star. He could also be called the first white rock(abilly) star, directly influencing Elvis, Dylan, Holly, etc. Did you know that Hank even "created" the Beatles? A British Hank Williams fan, Lonnie Donegan, was the greatest influence on John Lennon and the Beatles. So, start with this set for your musical education! When you buy this set, treat it carefully, for it may not always be available. Gently remove the CDs from their slots (which tend to scratch them) and burn your own CDs to enjoy. Then, put the set up for safekeeping. As pointed out by other reviewers, the set is not really "complete." You'll have to supplement this with a few other sources to embrace everything Hank did. You'll need the double HEALTH AND HAPPINESS SHOWS CDs, available on Amazon. Or, buy the inexpensive British CD, LOST HIGHWAY, which is all the Hank Williams tunes from those shows but without 15 fiddle tunes, 7 extra versions of "Happy Rovin' Cowboy," 7 extra "Sally Goodin's," and 2 songs by his shrewish wife, "Chainsaw" Audrey Williams. Buy (or borrow and burn) the HANK WILLIAMS AT THE GRAND OLE OPRY and HANK WILLIAMS/RARE DEMOS. These last two items contain six songs and three songs, respectively, which are available nowhere else. Incidentally, as a reminder to expert reviewers Ronald Reagan and others, Mercury apparently mistakenly omitted "Are You Building a Temple in Heaven?" (available only on the old LP, WAIT FOR THE LIGHT TO SHINE); live versions of "The Blues Come Around" and "Settin' the Woods on Fire" (availble only on the HANK WILLIAMS LIVE LPs from the 60's); and an alternate version of "Crazy Heart," available only on an old EP by that name. Finally, two questions for Mercury Records: (1) When are you going to release a double CD set of the 1953-61 overdubs? There were 42, and many (i.e.,"I'm Free at Last" ) were hauntingly beautiful. (2) When are you going to release Hank's pre-recorded radio shows sponsored by Duckhead Jeans and Mother's Best Flour? Reportedly, songs from these shows exist, and some are available in Europe as bootlegs. I've even heard bootlegs of these shows with Hank singing "Lonely Tombs" and "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" (written by Fred Rose and popularized by Willie Nelson)! Hank was truly the "Phantom of the Opry" and many of the tunes he recorded are "phantoms," also, existing but never being available to American record or CD purchasers. In summary, folks, despite its flaws, you must have this set. It is an excellent beginning for the serious Hank Williams collector, and the only available source for many of Hank's tunes.
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