Hank Williams Album: “Low Down Blues”

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LOW DOWN BLUES is a collection of Hank Williams songs inspired by the blues and other forms of black music. Personnel includes: Hank Williams (vocals, guitar). Recorded between 1946 and 1952. Includes liner notes by Robert Palmer. Digitally remastered by Suha Gur (PolyGram Studios). As Robert Palmer makes clear in this album's excellent liner notes, Hank Williams never sang the blues, per se, but there's no doubt that he had them. Thus, LOW DOWN BLUES is an interestingly programmed after-the-fact concept album of Williams' songs and performances in which the blue feeling is ever present, even if structurally the songs are closer to Tin Pan Alley pop than to Robert Johnson's "Hellhound on My Trail." Unsurprisingly, some of the most interesting things here are lesser-known demos, with just Williams on acoustic guitar and vocals. A great version of "Honky Tonk Blues," for example, is so intense that it practically leaps out of the speakers.

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Track Listing :

1	Lonesome Whistle, (I Heard That)
2	Long Gone Lonesome Blues Video
3	My Bucket's Got A Hole In It Video
4	Moanin' The Blues Video
5	Honky Tonk Blues - (non-session demo)
6	First Year Blues (Overdubbed Non-Session Demo)
7	Weary Blues From Waitin' - (non-session demo)
8	Wearing Out Your Walkin' Shoes - (non-session demo)
9	Why Should We Try Anymore Video
10	My Sweet Love Ain't Around Video
11	Ramblin' Man Video
12	Lovesick Blues Video
13	I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive Video
14	I'd Still Want You Video
15	Please Make Up Your Mind
16	Low Down Blues - (non-session demo)

Album Information :

Title:

Low Down Blues

UPC:731453273726

Format:CD

Type:Performer

Genre:Country - Honkytonk

Artist:Hank Williams

Producer:Kira Florita; Colin Escott

Label:Mercury Nashville

Distributed:Universal Distribution

Release Date:1996/08/20

Original Release Year:1996

Discs:1

Mono / Stereo:Mono

Studio / Live:Studio

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

- Wanna know about Hank & the blues?

Who said a white man couldn't sing the blues? Whoever said that obviously never heard Hank Williams. Hank built upon the foundation of blues that Jimmie Rodgers laid and made into a style uniquely all his own. Stylistically, Hank was much different than Rodgers, but the basic foundation of Hank's blues stems straight from Rodgers.

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Johnson Greene (Kotzebue Ak 99752) - October 05, 2000

4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

- HANK WMS SR...

HANK WMS SR..HIM IN THE BLUES(AWSOME) AND ESSENTIAL MUST OWN....