***RELEASE DATE: 03/07/26..TO PLACE A PRE-ORDER PLEASE PHONE THE OFFICE ON 01923 281281***
AVID Country presents the latest release in our Four Classic Albums Plus series with a remastered 2CD second release from Hank Williams, complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details.
"Hank Williams As Luke The Drifter"; "Hank Williams On Stage"; "Sing Me A Blue Song", and "The Lonesome Sound of" plus three bonus tracks.
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, Hank's 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! Due to fantastic demand from our country collectors, AVID are delighted to present our second release of Four Classic Albums by the legendary Hank Williams. Here we delve a little deeper into Hank's catalogue including his classic album as Luke The Drifter and a 1949 radio broadcast featuring Hank live on stage. And to round things out we feature the album The Lonesome Sound Of released with some technical problems and overdubbing after his tragic death in 1953. Not withstanding the technical difficulties MGM faced, as mentioned in the liner notes, we felt this was an important album for this second set. We hope you will enjoy the sound of a man who many during his lifetime referred to as "the sad poet" due to his songs of lost love, loneliness and heartache.
As with all AVID releases, we hope you enjoy them and check out our extensive catalogue for more great music across country, rock n roll, easy listening, jazz and many other musical genres.
Check out:- Hank Williams (AMSC1267); Ernest Tubb (AMSC1489); Chet Atkins (AMSC1335); Jimmie Rodgers (AMSC1362); Webb Pierce (AMSC1378); Kitty Wells (AMSC1328); Patsy Cline (AMSC1313); Jean Shepard (AMSC1355); Hank Snow (AMSC1393); Marty Robbins (AMSC1281); Hank Thompson (AMSC1371); Jim Reeves (AMSC1294); Johnny Cash (AMSC1410 & 1252); Slim Whitman (AMSC1346); Johnny Horton (AMSC1421); George Jones (AMSC1415); Hank Locklin (AMSC1404); Buck Owens (AMSC1426); Ray Price (AMSC1435); Gospel Country (AMSC1402).
CD1
1-12: 'Hank Williams As Luke The Drifter'
1. Pictures From Life's Other Side
2. Men With Broken Hearts
3. Help Me Understand
4. Too Many Parties And Too Many Pals
5. Why Don't You Make Up Your Mind? a/k/a Please Make Up Your Mind
6. I've Been Down That Road Before
7. Be Careful Of Stones That You Throw
8. I Dreamed About Mama Last Night
9. The Funeral
10. Beyond The Sunset
11. Just Waitin'
12. Everything's Okay
13-24: 'Hank Williams On Stage'
13. Medley: Rovin' Cowboy / Wedding Bells
14. Lovesick Blues
15. I'll Have A New Body
16. Lost Highway
17. Joe Clark (instrumental ft Jerry Rivers)
18. Where The Soul Of Man Never Dies
19. Medley: Rovin' Cowboy (reprise) / I'm A Long Gone Daddy
20. I'm Tellin' You
21. Bill Cheatam (instrumental ft Jerry Rivers)
22. When God Comes And Gathers His Jewels
23. The Blues Come Around
24. I Wanna Live And Love Always
25. Rootie Tootie (Bonus Track)
CD2
1-12: 'Sing Me A Blue Song'
1. Wedding Bells
2. May You Never Be Alone
3. Lost Highway
4. Why Should We Try Anymore
5. (Last Night) I Heard You Crying In Your Sleep
6. Blue Love (In My Heart)
7. A Mansion On The Hill
8. They'll Never Take Her Love From Me
9. I've Just Told Mama Goodbye
10. A House Without Love
11. Six More Miles (To The Graveyard)
12. Singin' Waterfall
13-24: 'The Lonesome Sound Of'
13. It Just Don't Matter Now
14. First Year Blues
15. Cool Water
16. Dixie Cannonball
17. I'm Free At Last
18. Roly Poly
19. The Old Home
20. Rock My Cradle (Once Again)
21. Sundown And Sorrow
22. Rockin' Chair Money
23. Tennessee Border
24. Swing Wide Your Gate Of Love
25. Move It On Over (Bonus Track)
26. Fly Trouble (Bonus Track)
***RELEASE DATE: 03/07/26..TO PLACE A PRE-ORDER PLEASE PHONE THE OFFICE ON 01923 281281***
