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COUNTRY,
BLUEGRASS & OLD-TIMEY
Hank
Williams
Hank
Williams, Jr.
| HANK WILLIAMS |
Mercury 520 332-2 |
The Legend Lives Anew |
● CD $10.98 |
Reissue of 1966 album where the bright sparks at MGM
decided to overdub strings on 12 classic Williams performances. Why?
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| HANK WILLIAMS |
Mercury 124 057-2 |
Alone & Forsaken |
● CD $10.98 |
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MATT JOHNSON: Spoken Intro By Matt Johnson (the The)/ HANK WILLIAMS: (i
Heard That) Lonesome Whistle/ Alone And Forsaken/ Angel Of Death/ Cold,
Cold Heart/ I Can't Escape From You/ I Saw The Light/ I'll Never Get Out
Of This World Alive/ I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry/ I've Been Down That Road
Before/ Lost Highway/ Please Don't Let Me Love You/ Please Make Up Your
Mind/ Ramblin' Man/ Ready To Go Home/ Someday You'll Call My Name/ Weary
Blues From Waitin'/ You Win Again
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| HANK WILLIAMS |
Mercury 532 737-2 |
Low Down Blues |
● CD $10.98 |
16 of Hank's "blues" songs including 5 non-session demos - (I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle/ My
Bucket's Got A Hole In It/ Honky Tonk Blues/ Weary Blues From Waitin'/ Why
Should We Try Anymore/ Ramblin' Man/ I'll Never get Out Of This World
Alive/ Please make Up Your Mind, etc. Actually just about anything
Hank recorded could be considered blues but what the heck - any Hank is
better than no Hank.
HANK WILLIAMS: (i Heard That) Lonesome Whistle/ First Year Blues
(overdubbed Non-session Demo)/ Honky Tonk Blues (non-session Demo)/ I'd
Still Want You/ I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive/ Long Gone Lonesome
Blues/ Lovesick Blues/ Low Down Blues (non-session Demo)/ Moanin' The
Blues/ My Bucket's Got A Hole In It/ My Sweet Love Ain't Around/ Please
Make Up Your Mind/ Ramblin' Man/ Wearing Out Your Walkin' Shoes
(non-session Demo)/ Weary Blues From Waitin' (non-session Demo)/ Why
Should We Try Anymore
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| HANK WILLIAMS |
Mercury 536 029-2 |
20 Greatest Hits |
● CD $17.98 |
20 all time classics.
HANK WILLIAMS: Baby, We're Really In Love/ Cold, Cold Heart/ Half As Much/
Hey Good Lookin'/ Honky Tonk Blues/ Honky Tonkin'/ I Can't Help It (if I'm
Still In Love With You)/ I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry/ Jambalaya (on The
Bayou)/ Kaw-liga/ Lovesick Blues/ Move It On Over/ My Heart Would Know/
Ramblin' Man/ Take These Chains From My Heart/ There'll Be No Tear Drops
Tonight/ Why Don't You Love Me/ Window Shopping/ You Win Again/ Your
Cheatin' Heart
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| HANK WILLIAMS |
Mercury 546 466-2 |
Live At The Grand Ole Opry |
● CD $19.98 |
Two CD set featuring Hank's performances at the Grand Ole
Opry between 1949 and 1952., mostly drawn from AFRS transcriptions and
many previously unissued. The first disc features 19 performances by Hank,
usually of his hit song of the time (Lovesick Blues/ You're Gonna
Change/ They'll Never Take Her Love From Me / Nobody's LOnesome For Me/
Cold, Cold Heart/ Honky Tonk Blues/ Baby We're Really In Love/ I Can't
Help It/ Half As Much, etc plus a couple of comedy segments with
Minnie Pearl and Rod Brasfield. The second disc presents a complete show
which in addition to Hank's two songs (I Just Don't Like This Kind Of
Living/ Lovesick Blues) includes songs by Red Foley, Wally Fowler
& The Oak Ridge Quartet and Claude Sharpe & The Old Hickory
Singers and comedy sgements with Minnie Pearl and blackface duo Jamup
& Honey.
RED FOLEY: Aunt Jemima's Plaster (live)/ Church Music (live)/ Lord, I'm
Coming Home (live)/ WALLY FOWLER: Lead Me To That Rock (live)/ You Ain't
Got Faith (live)/ JAMUP & HONEY: Comedy With Jamup & Honey/ MINNIE
PEARL: Comedy (live)/ CLAUDE SHARPE: Oh, You Beautiful Doll (live)/ HANK
WILLIAMS: Baby We're Really In Love (live)/ Cold, Cold Heart (live)/
Comedy With Hank Williams (live)/ Comedy With Hank Williams (live)/ Dear
John (live)/ Half As Much (live)/ Hey Good Lookin' (live)/ Honky Tonk
Blues (live)/ I Can't Help It (live)/ I Just Don't Like This Kind Of Livin'
(live)/ Jambalaya (on The Bayou) (live)/ Let The Spirit Descend (live)/
Long Gone Lonesome Blues (live)/ Lovesick Blues (live)/ Lovesick Blues
(live)/ Moanin' The Blues (live)/ Nobody's Lonesome For Me (live)/ The Old
Country Church (live)/ They'll Never Take Her Love From Me (live)/ Wedding
Bells (live)/ Why Don't You Love Me (live)/ Window Shopping (live)/ You're
Gonna Change (or I'm Gonna Leave) (live)
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| HANK WILLIAMS |
Mercury 170 164-2 |
Alone With His Guitar |
● CD $16.98 |
A collection of 18 songs featuring Hank at his rawest and
most intense accompanied only by his own guitar recorded between 1947 and
1952 drawn from songwriter demos, radio show performances and a solo
studio performance of Kaw Liga. If you have "The Complete Hank
Williams" box set (Mercury 536 077-2 - $169.98) then you have
everything here but if that set is beyond your budget then this is a nice
way to get some of those magnificent performances. They could have easily
gotten more songs on this CD but Polygram opted to make this an
"enhanced CD" for playing on your computer with some pretty
expendable bonus material including a biography and song lyrics which
could have been included in the booklet, some spoken clips from Hank and
from other performers, a reading of the CD liner notes by Hank III and a
mediocre screen saver.
HANK WILLIAMS: A Teardrop On A Rose/ Alone & Forsaken/ Blue Love/ Cool
Water/ First Year Blues/ Hoinky Tonk Blues/ I Can't Escape From You/ I
Could Never Be Ashamed Of You/ Kaw-liga/ My Bucket's Got A Hole In It/
Please Don't Let Me Love You/ Rockin' Chair Money/ Tennessee Border/ Thy
Burdens Are Greater Than Mine/ We Live In Two Different Worlds/ Weary
Blues From Waitin'/ With Tears In My Eyes/ You Caused It All By Tellin'
Lies
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| HANK WILLIAMS |
Mercury 170 183-2 |
I Saw the Light |
● CD $11.98 |
Reissue of MGM album originally issued in 1954 and reissued
on CD some years ago. This version has been newly remastered, has four
additional tracks and extensive new liner notes by Colin Escott. If you
don't want or can't afford the box set this is a simply superb collection
of 16 of Hank's gospel songs.
HANK WILLIAMS: (i'm Gonna) Sing, Sing, Sing/ A House Of Gold/ A Tramp On
The Street/ Calling You/ Dear Brother/ How Can You Refuse Him Now/ I Saw
The Light/ I'll Have A New Body (i'll Have A New Life)/ Jesus Remembered
Me/ Message To My Mother/ Thank God/ The Angel Of Death/ The Prodigal Son/
Thy Burdens Are Greater Than Mine/ Wealth Won't Save Your Soul/ When God
Comes And Gathers His Jewels
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| HANK WILLIAMS |
Mercury 170 184-2 |
Beyond The Sunset |
● CD $11.98 |
We've had many requests for a reissue of Hank's famous
recitation records issued under the name of Luke The Drifter. Polygram has
now reissued the original MGM album from 1953 and added the two remaining
Luke The Drifter cuts so they are now all in one place. This release has
been newly remastered and has extensive new notes from Williams biographer
Colin Escott.
HANK WILLIAMS: Be Careful Of Stones That You Throw/ Beyond The Sunset/
Everything's Okay/ Help Me Understand/ I Dreamed About Mama Last Night/
I've Been Down That Road Before/ Just Waitin'/ Men With Broken Hearts/ No,
No Joe/ Pictures From Life's Other Side/ Please Make Up Your Mind/ Ramblin'
Man/ The Funeral/ Too Many Parties And Too Many Pals
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| HANK WILLIAMS |
Polygram 536 077-2 |
The Complete Hank Williams |
● CD $169.98 |
| 10 CDs, 225 tracks, essential. This is the almost definitive
collection of this great country music pioneer - I say "almost"
since there is still some material out there that is not included
including a whole slew of radio broadcast material involved in legal
squabbles. Still, this is the most definitive yet. There are four CDs
featuring all his Sterling and MGM sessions with the rest of the CDs
devoted to demos, radio performances, undubbed, originals and more. 53
performances are previously unissued. The set comes in a "book
box" with several booklets including never before published photos of
Hank and his belongings (tackle box, guns, record player, etc). Sound
quality is an order of magnitude better than anything I've heard before -
the frequently mushy distorted remastering of the past is replaced by
clear and crisp sounding transfers with a lot of presence and warmth that
really gives some of the greatest music of all time a new lease of life.
The previously unissued recordings, once again, prove that whatever Hank
touched acquired a magical quality and became the definitive versions.
(FS)
Check here
for more extensive information on this wonderful set and full track
listing.
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| HANK WILLIAMS |
Polydor 847 194-2 |
The Singles Collection |
● CD $48.98 |
3 compact discs featuring 84 selections from one of the
greatest country artists who ever lived. It includes all 63 sides issued
on singles, 4 studio session recordings and 17 non session recordings. And
for the dedicated fan who thinks he has everything here it includes Hank's
first recording from 1942 (!) of I'm Not Coming Home Anymore, the
previously unissued All The Love I Ever Had and the undubbed
version of There's A Tear In My Beer. The selections are sequenced
chronologically and the set comes with a booklet with a 6000 word essay
and many previously unpublished photos. (FS)
HANK WILLIAMS: (i Heard That) Lonesome Whistle/ (last Night) I Heard You
Crying In Your Sleep/ A House Without Love/ A Mansion On The Hill/ All The
Love I Ever Had/ Alone And Forsaken/ Angel Of Death/ At The First Fall Of
Snow/ Baby, We're Really In Love/ Calling You/ Cold, Cold Heart/ Crazy
Heart/ Dear John/ Fly Trouble/ Fool About You/ Half As Much/ Hey, Good
Lokin'/ Honky Tonk Blues/ Honky Tonkin'/ Honky Tonkin'/ House Of Gold/
Howlin' At The Moon/ I Ain't Got Nothin' But Time/ I Can't Escape From
You/ I Can't Get You Off My Mind/ I Can't Help It (if I'm Still In Love
With You)/ I Could Never Be Ashamed Of You/ I Don't Care (if Tomorrow
Never Comes)/ I Just Don't Like This Kind Of Living/ I Saw The Light/ I
Won't Be Home No More/ I'd Still Want You/ I'll Be A Bachelor 'til I Die/
I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive/ I'm A Long Gone Daddy/ I'm Free At
Last/ I'm Not Coming Home Anymore/ I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry/ I'm Sorry
For You, My Friend/ I've Just Told Mama Goodbye/ Jambalaya (on The Bayou)/
Kaw-liga/ Let's Turn Back The Years/ Long Gone Lonesome Blues/ Lost
Highway/ Lovesick Blues/ May You Never Be Alone/ Mind Your Own Business/
Moanin' The Blues/ Move It On Over/ My Bucket's Got A Hole In It/ My Heart
Would Know/ My Love For You (has Turned To Hate)/ My Son Calls Another Man
Daddy/ My Sweet Love Ain't Around/ Never Again (will I Knock On Your
Door)/ Nobody's Lonesome For Me/ On The Banks Of The Old Pontchartrain/
Pan American/ Please Make Up Your Mind/ Ramblin' Man/ Rootie Tootie/
Settin' The Woods On Fire/ Six More Miles (to The Graveyard)/ Someday
You'll Call My Name/ Something Got A Hold Of Me/ Take These Chains From My
Heart/ The Blues Come Around/ The Log Train/ There'll Be No Teardrops
Tonight/ There's A Tear In My Beer/ There's No Room In My Heart For The
Blues/ They'll Never Take Her Love From Me/ Wealth Won't Save Your Soul/
Weary Blues From Waitin'/ Wedding Blues/ When God Comes And Gathers His
Jewels/ Why Don't You Love Me/ Why Should We Try Anymore/ Window Shopping/
With Tears In My Eyes/ You Win Again/ You're Gonna Change (or I'm Gonna
Leave)/ Your Cheatin' Heart
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| HANK WILLIAMS, JR. |
Curb 77724 |
Whiskey Bent & Hell Bound |
● CD $6.98 |
One of his best albums, from 1979, which showed his own music
fully realized, well before it began to become self parody.
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| HANK WILLIAMS, JR. |
Curb 77730 |
Man Of Steel |
● CD $6.98 |
Tough 1984 album - digitally recorded, mixed & mastered
- with Leon Redbone guesting on one cut
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| HANK WILLIAMS, JR. |
Curb 77913 |
Major Moves |
● CD $6.98 |
Interesting 1984 album has a strong blues flavor to several
tracks and features a medley of blues standards with guest vocals by John
Lee Hooker and Ray Charles - the rest of the album is good solid
contemporary country.
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| HANK WILLIAMS, JR. |
Curb 77914 |
Five-O |
● CD $6.98 |
Powerful new album mixing country, rock, blues and a
smattering of jazz. Includes half a dozen original songs including his
censorious The Nashville Scene, the wry I'm For Love, the
silly This Ain't Dallas and others. Also includes George Thorogood's
bluesy I Really Like Girls on which Thorogood plays slide guitar,
an uneventful version of the Gary 'US' Bond's hit New Orleans and
an interesting version of the Fats Waller standard Ain't Misbehavin'.
Usual high quality Jimmy Bowen production.
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| HANK WILLIAMS, JR. |
Curb 77915 |
Montana Cafe |
● CD $6.98 |
Apart from the opening track - the gently rocking Country
State Of Mind which got a lot of radio airplay, the rest of this
record is pretty expendable. There's the maudlin title song, stupid songs
like My Girl Don't Like My Cowboy Hat, third rate R&B, fourth
rate Leon Redbone imitations and the obligatory song from his dad Mind
Your Own Business which does nothing for this classic
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| HANK WILLIAMS, JR. |
Curb 77918 |
Born To Boogie |
● CD $6.98 |
When I was down in Memphis & Nashville in August, 1987
the title tune was heard blasting out of every juke box and car radio. The
autobiographical hit is one of a slew of Stones-sounding screamers on side
1 that also includes Honky Tonk Women & the sing-songy Young
Country with all the new young blood, Steve Earle, T Graham Brown,
Highway 101, on background vocals. Side 2 thankfully is pretty straight
country. Includes Practice What I Preach & What It Boils
Down To. (GM)
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| HANK WILLIAMS, JR. |
Curb 77919 |
Wild Streak |
● CD $6.98 |
High energy country rock album from the irrepressible Hank
Jr. 10 songs, mostly originals. Decent enough in small doses but some slow
honky tonkers would have made for a better balance.
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| HANK WILLIAMS, JR. |
Curb 77940 |
The Bocephus Box - 1979-1992 |
● CD $37.98 |
3-CD set of Hank Jr.'s rowdy country favorites from the last
14 years. Jimmy Guterman has drawn from nineteen of Bocephus' Warner Bros.
albums, and also included a healthy dose of unreleased live and studio
tracks for a total of 62 songs. Jimmy also wrote the candid notes for the
photo-filled booklet. A must for fans of young Hank.
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| HANK WILLIAMS, JR. |
MCA Special Products 543 370-2 |
Hank Williams Jr. & Friends |
● CD $7.98 |
This landmark 1975 album marked the turning point in Hank
Jr.'s career, the point where he began to make his own musical way and
reject being promoted as a mere clone/ shadow of his daddy. MGM was so
outraged by its Southern rock overtones (sidemen inc. Charlie Daniels, Toy
Caldwell & Chuck Leavell.) 12 years later, it's hard to see what upset
MGM. Hank sounds tame compared to what he's done since. Still, at the time
it was a major departure and inc. his fine version of Can't You See.
He wanted it to be the album's single, but MGM balked, Waylon Jennings
recorded it and had a huge hit. An essential album. (RK)
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