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Classic Country: Sing Me a Hank Williams Song
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Artist
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George Jones, Charley Pride, Conway Twitty, Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, Willie Nelson, Elvis Presley, Hank Snow & others.
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Label
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Time Life Music
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Format
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cutout CD
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Runtime/Release Date
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44'58/2006
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Label Number
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19199
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Daedalus Item Code
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17306
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Description
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Of the 66 songs Hank Williams recorded under his own name in his tragically short career, 37 became hits. And as this collection demonstrates, other country singers were only too happy to latch on to such sure-fire material. From George Jones' "Why Don't You Love Me?" to Willie Nelson's "Cold, Cold Heart," Mel Tillis's "Honky Tonkin'," and Conway Twitty's "Jambalaya (On the Bayou)," this is a set worthy of Williams' songwriting legacy. "Marty Robbins sings 'I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry' here, and it isn't Robbins' loneliness one feels so much as Williams,' and the song remains a perfectly balanced masterpiece where the human presence is distilled down to pure, free-floating emotion. Patsy Cline's take on 'Half as Much' is nearly as elegant…. Pride's rendition of 'Honky Tonk Blues' makes Pride seem like a stand-in for Williams, and even the patented Sun Records slap back echo on Johnny Cash's cover of 'Hey, Good Lookin'' can't keep Williams out of the mix. Don Gibson does keep Williams at bay for 'Baby, We're Really in Love,' but mostly because the tune is given a complete pop arrangement, underscoring how little distance there was between Nashville and Tin Pan Alley in a Hank Williams' song."—All Music Guide
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