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The Complete Hank Williams
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Released: 1998
Label: Mercury
Selection #: 207457
A 10-CD, comprehensive boxed set from the "King Of Country Music" including 225 remastered tracks. The definitive collection, plus 120-page booklet.
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1 Calling You
2 Never Again (Will I Knock on Your Door)
3 Wealth Won't Save Your Soul
4 When God Comes and Gathers His Jewels
5 I Don't Care (If Tomorrow Never Comes)
6 My Love for You (Has Turned to Hate)
7 Honky Tonkin'
8 Pan American
9 Move It on Over
10 I Saw the Light
11 (Last Night) I Heard You Crying in Your Sleep
12 Six More Miles (To the Graveyard)
13 Fly Trouble
14 I'm Satisfied With You
15 On the Banks of the Old Pontchartrain
16 Rootie Tootie
17 I Can't Get You off of My Mind
18 I'm a Long Gone Daddy
19 Honky Tonkin'
20 My Sweet Love Ain't Around
21 The Blues Come Around
22 A Mansion on the Hill
23 I'll Be a Bachelor 'Til I Die
24 There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight
25 Lovesick Blues
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Between 1986 and 1987, Mercury launched its first effort to chronicle Hank Williams' complete recorded works, releasing a series of eight double albums/single CDs which were later collected as a box set. Both the individual compilations and the box set were pulled from the market in the '90s, clearing the way for "The Complete Hank Williams", a ten-disc box set which purported to contain all of Williams' recordings. Mercury, however, played it a little loose with their terms, deciding that "complete" covers the studio recordings, demos, and selected live performances, leaving overdubbed tracks and many live cuts (including much of "The Health and Happiness Shows", which was released as a separate collection) in the vaults. This is bound to frustrate some collectors, but it makes for a better listen, actually. Instead of piling all the recordings into an impenetrable chronological trawl through Williams' recording life, the compilers logically devoted specific discs to the studio sessions, live cuts, and demos. In particular, the studio discs are quite compelling, but for hardcore fans, the previously unheard live performances (including several songs that Williams only performed in concert) are the real treasures. Then again, only hardcore fans will invest in such a lavish, extensive box set as "The Complete Hank Williams", and there's little question that they'll be quite pleased with it. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

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