HANK WILLIAMS - The Legend Begins - Rare & Unreleased (3-CD) CD TL 17258
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3 CD digipac with 16-page booklet
GENRE Country
TRACKS 61
PLAYING TIME 119:41
Unbelievably, there's still more to discover, still more to hear by Hank Williams. In these audio snapshots we hear him as a fifteen-year-old performer making his very first recordings; two years later, he's a brash young singer with a local following around Montgomery, Alabama; another nine years on, he's newly arrived in Nashville, hosting his first syndicated radio series; and finally, he's the biggest star in country music performing a couple of public service shows. Two years after the last of these shows, his brief, incendiary career would be over. In 1938 or '39, when Hank was fifteen and had no shortage of confidence, he recorded 'Fan It', a song originally waxed by bluesman Frankie 'Half Pint' Jaxon in 1928. The second song was 'Alexander's Ragtime Band'. On the evidence of a 1940 home recording, Hank's voice had matured considerably in two years. And at a time when country and pop music were stiff and mannered, Hank was already rocking out. The 'Health and Happiness ' shows were recorded in Nashville in October 1949, four months after Hank moved to Nashville to join the Grand Ole Opry. Now, more than sixty years after they were recorded, we can hear them as they first sounded, without overdubs and later added live applause. The twelve years encapsulated on this set saw Hank Williams rise from 'The Singing Kid' on Montgomery's WSFA to the preeminent country star of his time.(Time Life 2011) / (2011/TIMELIFE) 61 Titel (118:95), 6-Seiten Digipac im Schuber, 16 Seiten Booklet (Colin Escott). CD 1&2 enthalten hervorragende Health & Happiness Radio Shows in nie gehörter, superber Tonqualität. CD-3 enthält als Erstveröffentlichung Hank's erste Aufnahmen von 1938!, 4 unveröffentlichte Acetate datiert 1940 plus die superrare March Of Dimes, Januar 1951 Radio Show, ebenfalls in Top Qualität.***** -US Sonderposten zu einem "Health & Happiness"