Hank Williams: Revealed

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Artist: Hank Williams
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 2009-11-03
Music Label: Time Life Entertainment
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  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. Don Helms and Sammy Pruett and the Drifting Cowboys: Twin Guitar Polka
  16. Gathering Flowers for the Master's Bouquet
  17. Jerry Rivers and the Drifting Cowboys: Eighth of January
  18. Closing Theme
Music CD 2
  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. Hank & Audrey: Something Got Hold of Me
  12. Lovesick Blues
  13. My Sweet Love Ain't Around
  14. Jerry Rivers and the Drifting Cowboys: Fire on the Mountain
  15. I Saw the Light
  16. Closing Theme
Music CD 3
  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. Jerry Rivers, Hank Williams and the Drifting Cowboys: 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. Jerry Rivers and the Drifting Cowboys: Black Mountain Rag
  15. I Heard My Savior Calling Me
  16. 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:

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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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