Hank Williams - Hank Williams: Revealed
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Artist: Hank WilliamsEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 2009-11-03
Music Label: Time Life Entertainment
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Cold, Cold Heart
- Move It On Over
- Lonesome Whistle
- Long Gone Lonesome Blues
- Hey, Good Lookin'
- I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love with You)
- Why Don't You Love Me
- A Mansion on the Hill
- Moanin' the Blues
- I Just Don't Like This Kind of Livin'
- They'll Never Take Her Love from Me
- Mind Your Own Business
- Lovesick Blues
- Nobody's Lonesome for Me
- Don Helms and Sammy Pruett and the Drifting Cowboys: Twin Guitar Polka
- Gathering Flowers for the Master's Bouquet
- Jerry Rivers and the Drifting Cowboys: Eighth of January
- Closing Theme
- That Beautiful Home
- How Can You Refuse Him Now
- Lord, Build Me a Cabin in Glory
- Farther Along
- Calling You
- I Am Bound for the Promised Land
- Dear Brother
- Jesus Died for Me
- At the Cross
- Thirty Pieces of Silver
- Hank & Audrey: Something Got Hold of Me
- Lovesick Blues
- My Sweet Love Ain't Around
- Jerry Rivers and the Drifting Cowboys: Fire on the Mountain
- I Saw the Light
- Closing Theme
- Everything's Okay
- I've Just Told Mama Goodbye
- Where the Old Red River Flows
- Alabama Waltz
- Faded Love and Winter Roses
- Deck of Cards
- Just Waitin'
- I Hang My Head and Cry
- Jerry Rivers, Hank Williams and the Drifting Cowboys: Orange Blossom Special
- I've Been Down That Road Before
- Steal Away/The Funeral
- Lovesick Blues
- I Dreamed about Mom Last Night
- Jerry Rivers and the Drifting Cowboys: Black Mountain Rag
- I Heard My Savior Calling Me
- Closing Theme
Free Music Notes for Hank Williams: Revealed
Free Music Review: More Mother's Best Unreleased Gems
Hit: 5 Stars
The Time-Life "The Unreleased Recordings" series of Hank William's work shows more revelations. In this case the "Revealed" set presents his hits in a brand new light from the Mother's Best acetates. In this case his hits are presented along with three complete Mother's Best shows.
What's interesting about this set is how the Mother's Best shows allowed for more banter between the host and the musicians. That and there's something abut hearing Hank just sing on-the-spot with no safety net. His voice does strain in mid-yodel in a couple places but that only adds to the charm.
The only fault I can find in this set is that it needed better remastering. I'm very aware of the nature of analog recordings. Here the mastering wizards could've applied a bit more EQ to take full advantage of the medium as well as removing a bit more of the analog hiss.
That's not a big deal for me since I do my own remastering and rips. I took these discs and ripped them at 48kHz. I then tweaked the bass levels to better compliment the high-end while adding some more warmth to the audio. I also sampled the audio hiss and digitally removed it. Finally I re-EQed the audio to use the full bandwidth while listening to make sure that nothing was clipped (checking the waveforms visually also helped). All of this is then tagged and stored as FLAC master files.
I may have to revisit Hank Williams: The Unreleased Recordings and see how I can get more out of an outstanding collection with my own remastering skills. Combine "Revealed" with that previous Time-Life set along with Mercury's The Complete Hank Williams set and you have, as of this writing, 16 discs that are definitely going to satisfy Hank's fans (such as myself).
All three of these sets are masterpieces in their own right. They're beautifully packaged and come complete with lots of liner notes. So listen, read and enjoy! I certainly hope that more will be revealed soon.
UPDATE 2010-04-18:
According to the liner notes there are 18-hours worth of Mother's Best material that was found. "The Unreleased Recordings" to me has transformed my impression of the man known to moan the blues and bend them guitar strings to someone who had a great sense of humor and enjoyed playing with his fellow musicians.
I'm going to get on my soapbox for a few lines now: The ultimate tragedy is that Hank Williams is STILL not reinstated into the Grand Ole Opry yet they keep his likeness outside their doors. For such a legendary performer I find that to be a grave injustice. The irony is that he has received many posthumous awards and recognition for his work.
Hank III, his grandson, has put a petition online. I'm going to place this link in the forums here as well but for anyone who cares please sign it:
[...]
Hank Williams: Revealed Poster
At the peak of his career in 1951, Hank Williams recorded 143 songs for the Mother's Best Flour Company, Hank sang with his regular studio band and recorded his hits as well as songs he never recorded commercially anywhere else. From this amazing legacy, Time Life is proud to release the second 3-disc set Hank Williams: Revealed, another historic 3-CD, 54-track collection drawn from the Mother's Best recordings. It's a rare, informal glimpse into the heart and soul of country music's greatest star who passed away on New Year's Day 1953, at age 29.This second three-CD set drawn from the Mother's Best shows includes a little more conversation, and each disc also includes a complete show. The highlights are many. On one of the earliest surviving shows, Hank plays the just-released Cold, Cold Heart without any idea of what it will do for his career. On one of the later shows, his back pain is so crippling he has to sing sitting down. The spinal problems he'd had since birth had been aggravated by the year's punishing itinerary. In the songs and chatter, Hank Williams takes us back to his world. These days, we count ourselves lucky if we find an alternate take or two by any late giant of American music. To find eighteen hours of music and talk is truly without precedent. Set the time machine for 1951.
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