HANK WILLIAMS Live At The Grand Ole Opry 2 CD Set

DESCRIPTION
Mercury Records 2CD release. SEALED (tiny hole punch on back upper left corner).
Recorded live at The Grand Ole Opry, Nashville, Tennessee, between 1949-1952. Includes liner notes by Rick Bragg and Colin Escott. Digitally remastered by Tom Ruff (Universal Music Studios). LIVE AT THE GRAND OLE OPRY was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Album Notes. Liner Note Author: Colin Escott. As the single most important artist in country music, Hank Williams bears a discography whose every element is of extreme historical import. While he recorded prolifically, live Williams records are decidedly in the minority. Before the 1999 release of LIVE AT THE GRAND OLE OPRY, the Health and Happiness radio shows and a few stray cuts here and there were all the public had access to in terms of live Hank. Like the Health and Happiness release, this album is taken from radio transcriptions. The context these shows provide--Hank trades quips with Minnie Pearl and a host of comedians, and engages in plenty of aural glad-handing with the host and audience--makes the unadorned longing in Hank's voice and songs all the more striking. Listening to him detail (though not without humor) his miserable state on "Nobody's Lonesome For Me" while an enthusiastic audience happily claps along, adds an extra ironic edge to the already harrowing musical experience. LIVE AT THE GRAND OLE OPRY shows that Williams was a unique combination of happy-faced showman and broken-hearted troubadour, a man who could make people smile with a cry in his voice.
Tracks are:
DISC 1: 1. Lovesick Blues 2. Wedding Bells - (previously unreleased) 3. You're Gonna Change (Or I'm Gonna Leave) 4. Why Don't You Love Me (Like You Used to Do)? - (previously unreleased) 5. Comedy With Hank Williams/Red Foley/Minnie Pearl 6. They'll Never Take Her Love from Me 7. Moanin' the Blues - (previously unreleased) 8. Nobody's Lonesome for Me - (previously unreleased) 9. Dear John 10. Cold, Cold Heart - (previously unreleased) 11. Hey, Good Lookin' 12. Honky Tonk Blues 13. Let the Spirit Descend 14. Baby, We're Really in Love 15. Comedy With Hank Williams/Rod Brasfield - (previously unreleased) 16. Old Country Church, The 17. I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love With You) - (previously unreleased) 18. Jambalaya (On the Bayou) - (previously unreleased) 19. Half as Much - (previously unreleased) 20. Window Shopping - (previously unreleased) 21. Long Gone Lonesome Blues - (previously unreleased) DISC 2: COMPLETE ARMED FORCES RADIO SHOW 116 (2/18/50): 1. Aunt Jemima's Plaster - (previously unreleased) 2. Lead Me to That Rock - (previously unreleased) 3. I Just Don't Like This Kind of Livin' 4. Comedy With Minnie Pearl 5. Lord, I'm Coming Home - (previously unreleased) 6. Oh, You Beautiful Doll - (previously unreleased) 7. Comedy With Jamup & Honey - (previously unreleased) 8. Lovesick Blues - (previously unreleased) 9. You Ain't Got Faith - (previously unreleased) 10. Church Music - (previously unreleased)

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