Title: There's not much one can write about Hank Williams...
Product review: ...that hasn't already been written. Still, it seems that anyone who hears this man's recordings (especially in my little part of the world) is moved to words...and usually those words are his, sung in unison with whomever else happens to be around. Everyone, it seems, knows all the words - everyone knows the melodies. And, deep down, everyone knows the emotions that we can only assume spurred the writing of these songs. In his wonderful liner notes for this release, Rick Bragg writes about Hank Williams: "I thought he lived in our house". Yep, these songs do hit damn close to home. These Opry recordings are extrordinary. It's wonderful to hear the crowd react to Hank's first Opry performance - an amazing rendition of "Lovesick Blues" - by repeatedly erupting during the song into chears of joy. It was 1949, and there had never been anything like him. Fifty years later, there still hasn't.
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