Hank Williams - The Legend Begins: Rare & Unreleased Recordings (Audio CD - 2011) [3-Disc Set]

Hank Williams was country music's first true superstar, and his songs were a remarkable synthesis of hillbilly elements with a dose of blues and gospel, and a clear awareness of Tin Pan Alley techniques, all delivered with a postmodern sensibility that understood that sex and image were a big part of the whole package. He was also heavily conflicted -- much like later soul singers Marvin Gaye and Al Green -- between the secular and the sacred, even going so far as creating a separate persona, Luke the Drifter, to deliver a series of dark, frightening sermons on the dangers of yielding to Saturday night temptation. But yield Williams did, and this tortured soul turned his contradictions into stunning songs
Condition: Brand New Factory Sealed

TRACK LISTING

Disc 1 1 Happy Rovin' Cowboy (Theme) 1:28 2 Wedding Bells 3:40 3 Lovesick Blues 3:22 4 Old Joe Clark / Jerry Rivers 0:57 5 Where the Soul Never Dies 1:47 6 Sally Goodin / Jerry Rivers 0:42 7 Happy Rovin' Cowboy (Theme) 1:24 8 You're Gonna Change 2:51 9 There's a Bluebird on Your Windowsill / Audrey Williams 2:08 10 Fire on the Mountain / Jerry Rivers 0:53 11 Tramp on the Street 3:53 12 Sally Goodin / Jerry Rivers 0:33 13 Happy Rovin' Cowboy (Theme) 1:32 14 I'm a Long Gone Daddy 2:40 15 I'm Telling You / Audrey Williams 2:17 16 Bill Cheatham / Jerry Rivers 1:21 17 When God Comes and Gathers His Jewels 3:06 18 Sally Goodin / Jerry Rivers 0:56 19 Happy Rovin' Cowboy (Theme) 1:33 20 Lost Highway 3:11 21 I Want to Live and Love 2:36 22 Bile Dem Cabbage Down / Jerry Rivers 1:03 23 I'll Have a New Life 2:21 24 Fingers on Fire / Bob McNett 0:41 25 Sally Goodin / Jerry Rivers 0:26 Disc 2 1 Happy Rovin' Cowboy (Theme) 1:22 2 A Mansion on the Hill 3:08 3 There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight 3:12 4 Tennessee Wagner / Jerry Rivers 0:46 5 The Prodigal Son 2:39 6 Sally Goodin / Jerry Rivers 0:48 7 Happy Rovin' Cowboy (Theme) 1:31 8 Pan American 2:56 9 Lovesick Blues 3:31 10 Arkansas Traveler / Jerry Rivers 1:07 11 I Saw the Light 2:18 12 Sally Goodin / Jerry Rivers 0:33 13 Happy Rovin' Cowboy (Theme) 1:36 14 Mind Your Own Business 2:41 15 Wedding Bells 4:00 16 Cotton Eyed Joe / Jerry Rivers 0:49 17 I've Just Told Mama Goodbye 2:14 18 Sally Goodin / Jerry Rivers 0:34 19 Happy Rovin' Cowboy (Theme) 1:17 20 I Can't Get You Off My Mind 1:50 21 I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry 2:56 22 Fisherman's Hornpipe / Jerry Rivers 0:46 23 Thy Burdens Are Greater Than Mine 4:28 24 Sally Goodin / Jerry Rivers 0:39 Disc 3 1 Fan It Hank's First-Ever Recordings from 1938 1:49 2 Alexander's Ragtime Band / Pee Wee Moultrie Hank's First-Ever Recordings from 1938 1:34 3 Freight Train Blues previously unreleased / Rare and Unreleased Recordings from 1940 1:11 4 New San Antonio Rose previously unreleased / Rare and Unreleased Recordings from 1940 1:59 5 St. Louis Blues previously unreleased / Rare and Unreleased Recordings from 1940 1:42 6 Greenback Dollar previously unreleased / Rare and Unreleased Recordings from 1940 1:09 7 Lovesick Blues [The March of Dimes Show for Broadcast January 15-31, 19 1:33 8 Moanin' the Blues [The March of Dimes Show for Broadcast January 15-31, 3:15 9 There's a Bluebird on Your Windowsill [The March of Dimes Show for Broa / Audrey Williams 1:45 10 Hank Talks About Infantile Paralysis [The March of Dimes Show for Broad 1:55 11 Help Me Understand [The March of Dimes Show for Broadcast January 15-31 3:00 12 When God Dips His Love in My Heart [The March of Dimes Show for Broadca 3:14