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Release Date: Friday 4 August 2017
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Hank Williams was a man of many parts, Country singer Marty Stuart says he's "a part of the fabric of America" ... perhaps the first superstar of country music. As musical legends go they don't come much greater than Hiram King "Hank" Williams! Born in 1923 to a "charmless" mother and an absent father, Hanks childhood was shaped by the spina bifida that caused him constant pain and that would go on to be the root cause of his drug and alcohol consumption throughout his short life. Music was the young Hank's passion and by the late thirties he had his own radio show on WFSA in Montgomery, Alabama. It paid fifteen dollars a week, enough for Williams to start his own group which he called The Drifting Cowboys but it wasn't long before his problems with alcohol influenced the progress of his career. He was fired from the radio station and his group were all drafted into the army. By 1945 he was back on WFSA and had been introduced to Roy Acuff and Fred Rose who had begun to recognise Hank's musical talents. By 1946 Hank signed to Sterling Records and months later Fred Rose took Hank to MGM where chart success soon followed. Hank Williams left behind a stunning catalogue of classic songs, all achieved by a man who had not even reached the age of 30!
CD1
1. I Saw The Light (Hank Williams Sings)
2. Mansion On The Hill (Hank Williams Sings)
3. Six More Miles (Hank Williams Sings)
4. Wedding Bells (Hank Williams Sings)
5. Lost Highway (Hank Williams Sings)
6. I've Just Told Mama Goodbye (Hank Williams Sings)
7. Wealth Won't Save Your Soul (Hank Williams Sings)
8. A House Without Love (Hank Williams Sings)
9. Moanin' The Blues (Moanin' The Blues)
10. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry (Moanin' The Blues)
11. My Sweet Love Ain't Around (Moanin' The Blues)
12. Honky Tonk Blues (Moanin' The Blues)
13. Lovesick Blues (Moanin' The Blues)
14. The Blues Come Around (Moanin' The Blues)
15. I'm A Long Gone Daddy (Moanin' The Blues)
16. Long Gone Lonesome Blues (Moanin' The Blues)
17. Your Cheatin' Heart (Memorial Album)
18. Settin' The Woods On Fire (Memorial Album)
19. You Win Again (Memorial Album)
20. Hey, Good Lookin' (Memorial Album)
21. Cold, Cold Heart (Memorial Album)
22. Kaw-Liga (Memorial Album)
23. I Could Never Be Ashamed Of You (Memorial Album)
24. Half as Much (Memorial Album)
CD2
1. Honky Tonkin' (Honky Tonkin')
2. Howlin' At The Moon (Honky Tonkin')
3. My Bucket's Got A Hole In It (Honky Tonkin')
4. Baby We're Really In Love (Honky Tonkin')
5. Jambalaya (Honky Tonkin')
6. I Won't Be Home No More (Honky Tonkin')
7. Honky Tonk Blues (Honky Tonkin')
8. I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive (Honky Tonkin')
9. Ramblin' Man (Ramblin' Man)
10. My Son Calls Another Man Daddy (Ramblin' Man)
11. I Can't Escape From You (Ramblin' Man)
12. Nobody's Lonesome For Me (Ramblin' Man)
13. I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love With You) (Ramblin' Man)
14. There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight (Ramblin' Man)
15. Lonesome Whistle (Ramblin' Man)
16. I Just Don't Like This Kind of Livin' (Ramblin' Man)
17. Take These Chains From My Heart (Ramblin' Man)
18. Why Don't You Love Me (Ramblin' Man)
19. My Heart Would Know (Ramblin' Man)
20. You're Gonna Change (Or I'm Gonna Leave) (Ramblin' Man)