LOW DOWN BLUES is a collection of Hank Williams songs inspired by the blues and other forms of black music.
<p>Personnel includes: Hank Williams (vocals, guitar).
<p>Recorded between 1946 and 1952. Includes liner notes by Robert Palmer.
<p>Digitally remastered by Suha Gur (PolyGram Studios).
<p>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."
<p>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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- 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.
