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Key Information
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| Artist: |
Hank Williams |
| Record Label: |
Polydor (USA) |
| Genre: |
Country |
| Subgenre: |
Honkytonk |
| Release Date: |
October 24, 1988 |
| Album Duration: |
107m:03s |
| Number of Discs: |
2 |
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Song List: Disc 1
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1. Move It on Over 2. Mansion on a Hill, A 3. Lovesick Blues 4. Wedding Bells 5. Mind Your Own Business 6. You're Gonna Change (Or I'm Gonna Leave) 7. Lost Highway 8. My Bucket's Got a Hole in It 9. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry 10. I Just Don't Like This Kind of Living 11. Long Gone Lonesome Blues 12. My Son Calls Another Man Daddy 13. Why Don't You Love Me 14. Why Should We Try Anymore 15. They'll Never Take Her Love From Me 16. Moanin' the Blues 17. Nobody's Lonesome For Me 18. Cold Cold Heart 19. Dear John 20. Howlin' at the Moon |
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Song List: Disc 2
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1. I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love With You) 2. Hey Good Lookin' 3. Crazy Heart 4. Lonesome Whistle (I Heard That) 5. Baby, We're Really in Love 6. Ramblin' Man 7. Honky Tonk Blues 8. I'm Sorry For You My Friend 9. Half as Much 10. Jambalaya (On the Bayou) 11. Window Shopping 12. Settin' the Woods on Fire 13. You Win Again 14. I'll Never Get Out of the World Alive 15. Kaw-Liga 16. Your Cheatin' Heart 17. Take These Chains From My Heart 18. I Won't Be Home No More 19. Weary Blues From Waitin' 20. I Saw the Light |
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Personnel includes: Hank Williams (vocals, acoustic guitar); Zeke Turner (guitar); Jerry Byrd (steel guitar). Recorded at Castle Recording Co. and Castle Studios, Nashville, Tennessee between April 21, 1947 and September 23, 1952; Herzog Studios, Cincinnati, Ohio on December 22, 1948 and August 30, 1949. Mastered from the original mono tapes and 78-rpm discs. Those seeking a definitive introduction to Hank Williams Sr.'s music need look no further than 40 GREATEST HITS, a beautifully produced set that includes all but three of Hank's Top 20 hits. All the essential tracks are here, revealing Williams' mastery of both heartbreak songs (for which he, the composer of "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry," "Cold, Cold Heart" and numerous other classics, is justly famous) and joyful, upbeat numbers (such as "Jambalaya," "Hey, Good Lookin'," and "Howling at the Moon"). Unlike many Williams retrospectives, 40 GREATEST HITS abstains from efforts to "improve" Hank's music with such abominations as "enhanced stereo" (a che... |
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