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(2009/TIMELIFE) 15 tracks; Commercial pressures mean that Willimas rarely recorded gospel music... more

Hank Williams: Gospel Keepsake - The Unreleased Recordings

(2009/TIMELIFE) 15 tracks; Commercial pressures mean that Willimas rarely recorded gospel music for his releases; however, when he made these recordings for the Mother's Best Flour radio Shows in 1951 Hank made sure that religious music was well represented. He performed old time jubilees, formal hymns, gospel songs and southern quartet music, and we've gathered them for this very special Hank Williams treasure. The Unreleased Recordings: Gospel Keepsakes includes a never-before-released version of one of the most popular hymns of the twentieth century, Williams' classic 'I Saw The Light' as well as a previously unreleased version of the southern gospel standard 'Thirty Pieces Of Silver.'

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  • Interpret: Hank Williams

  • Album titlle: Gospel Keepsake - The Unreleased Recordings

  • Genre Country

  • Label Time Life

  • Artikelart CD

  • EAN: 0610583299229

  • weight in Kg 0.1
Williams, Hank - Gospel Keepsake - The Unreleased Recordings CD 1
01 I'm Gonna Sing Hank Williams
02 I Heard My Savior Calling Me Hank Williams
03 Precious Lord, Take My Hand Hank Williams
04 I've Got My One-Way Ticket To The Sky Hank Williams
05 Thirty Pieces Of Silver Hank Williams
06 When God Dips His Love In My Heart Hank Williams
07 Farther Along Hank Williams
08 From Jerusalem To Jericho Hank Williams
09 When The Fire Comes Down Hank Williams
10 Drifting Too Far From The Shore Hank Williams
11 The Old Country Church Hank Williams
12 Lonely Tombs Hank Williams
13 Where The Soul Never Dies Hank Williams
14 Where He Leads Me Hank Williams
15 I Saw The Light Hank Williams
Hank Williams was to me the first rock 'n' roll singer. Don Everly When Hank Williams's... more
"Hank Williams"

Hank Williams was to me the first rock 'n' roll singer.
Don Everly

When Hank Williams's first M-G-M record hit radio stations and Southern juke joints in June 1947, country music was poised for a seismic shift. Western swing and cowboy crooners were waning in popularity, as were the mournful wails of Roy Acuff and trumpet-driven jukebox novelties. Eddy Arnold and Red Foley ruled the charts with finely honed records that sounded more uptown than down-home. Beyond a few select artists with established regional appeal, the major labels mostly ignored Southeastern vocalists who sounded too 'hillbilly,' leaving this market to aggressive independent labels. When King Records in Cincinnati began racking impressive sales figures with raw, unabashedly rural music, the majors took notice but stayed the course.

Williams's Move It On Over was not Ernest Tubb's, Floyd Tillman's or Moon Mullican's Texas honky tonk. It was something fresh and exciting, fusing passionate Acuffian phrasing with a high-volume backbeat straight out of late '30s Chicago race records. It rocked like crazy and formally introduced Hank Williams as a significant voice in country music.

Williams's early years and influences have been thoroughly documented elsewhere. New York writer Roger Williams (no relation) wrote the first significant biography in 1970 ('Sing A Sad Song: A Life Of Hank Williams'; Doubleday). The next fifteen years brought other full-length bios by Jay Caress, Chet Flippo, and George William Koon, among others. Dr. Charles K. Wolfe and Bob Pinson also contributed to our understanding of Williams's life, music, career and recordings. These studies have been largely supplanted by Colin Escott's 'Hank Williams: A Biography' (Little, Brown & Co., 1994) and his notes to Mercury Records' comprehensive 1998 compact disc anthology 'The Complete Hank Williams.'

Hiram 'Hank' Williams was born September 17, 1923 in Mount Olive Community, Alabama, the second child born to Elonzo Huble Williams (1891-1970) and Jessie Lillie Belle Skipper (1898-1955). Lon Williams, a native of Lowndes County, Alabama, was a locomotive driver for a logging company when he met Lillie Skipper. The couple struggled financially after their November 1916 marriage, often relying on help from Lillie's family and meager income from a small general store in their house. Lon Williams was drafted into the army in July 1918, spending part of the next eleven months in France. During his military service he suffered a serious head injury in either a drunken brawl over a woman or a fall from a truck. Although he apparently recovered, the injury caused irreparable neurological damage that later resurfaced.

Returning from the war, Lon Williams worked sporadically at the lumberyards, while Lillie took jobs as a nurse, a cannery worker and seamstress. Their first child, Irene, was born in August 1922, followed by Hank a year later.

Life was hard, but the family got by. On Sundays Lillie sang and played organ at the Mount Olive West Baptist Church. In one of his rare print interviews, Hank recalled those days to San Francisco journalist Ralph J. Gleason. "My earliest memory is sittin' on that organ stool and hollerin'," he said. "I must have been five, six years old, and louder 'n anybody else."

His parents noticed their son had a swollen spot on his spine, a birth defect later diagnosed as Spina Bifida Occulta. If not corrected by surgery, the spinal cord could herniate outward from the spine. Hank's condition went untreated. As he aged, the ailment progressed, leaving him susceptible to back injuries and debilitating pain.

Soon after the 1929 stock market crash, Lon became impaired by a brain aneurysm likely triggered by his earlier head injury. Temporarily unable to speak and his face paralyzed, he was admitted to a Veterans Administration hospital in Biloxi that November. He never lived with his family again.

from booklet BCD16636 - Hank Williams Rockin'Chair Money - Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight
Read more at: https://www.bear-family.de/williams-hank-rockin-chair-money-gonna-shake-this-shack-tonight.html
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Tracklist
Williams, Hank - Gospel Keepsake - The Unreleased Recordings CD 1
01 I'm Gonna Sing
02 I Heard My Savior Calling Me
03 Precious Lord, Take My Hand
04 I've Got My One-Way Ticket To The Sky
05 Thirty Pieces Of Silver
06 When God Dips His Love In My Heart
07 Farther Along
08 From Jerusalem To Jericho
09 When The Fire Comes Down
10 Drifting Too Far From The Shore
11 The Old Country Church
12 Lonely Tombs
13 Where The Soul Never Dies
14 Where He Leads Me
15 I Saw The Light