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Hank Williams: Prodigal Son, Live in Nashville 1949 (CD)

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  • Interpret: Hank Williams

  • Album titlle: Prodigal Son, Live in Nashville 1949 (CD)

  • Genre Country

  • Label MAGNUM

  • Artikelart CD

  • EAN: 0658028810127

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Williams, Hank - Prodigal Son, Live in Nashville 1949 (CD) CD 1
01 Happy Rovin' Cowboy Hank Williams
02 Lovesick Blues Hank Williams
03 A Mansion On The Hill Hank Williams
04 You're Gonna Change Hank Williams
05 A Tramp On The Street Hank Williams
06 I'm A Long Gone Daddy Hank Williams
07 When God Comes and Gathers All His Jewels Hank Williams
08 Lost Highway Hank Williams
09 I'll Have A New Body Hank Williams
10 I Can't Get You Off My Mind Hank Williams
11 The Prodigal Son Hank Williams
12 Pan American Hank Williams
13 There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight Hank Williams
14 Mind Your Own Business Hank Williams
15 Wedding Bells Hank Williams
16 I've Just Told Mama Goodbye Hank Williams
17 I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry Hank Williams
18 The Burdens Are Greater Than Mine Hank Williams
19 I Saw The Light Hank Williams
20 Sally Goodin 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
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Tracklist
Williams, Hank - Prodigal Son, Live in Nashville 1949 (CD) CD 1
01 Happy Rovin' Cowboy
02 Lovesick Blues
03 A Mansion On The Hill
04 You're Gonna Change
05 A Tramp On The Street
06 I'm A Long Gone Daddy
07 When God Comes and Gathers All His Jewels
08 Lost Highway
09 I'll Have A New Body
10 I Can't Get You Off My Mind
11 The Prodigal Son
12 Pan American
13 There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight
14 Mind Your Own Business
15 Wedding Bells
16 I've Just Told Mama Goodbye
17 I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
18 The Burdens Are Greater Than Mine
19 I Saw The Light
20 Sally Goodin