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(18 customer reviews) 37 of 37 people found the following review helpful
Same Track Listing/New Title,
September 20, 2005 This review is from: Gold (Audio CD)
What follows is my original review for the 2002 release entitled THE ULTIMATE HANK WILLIAMS. Why recycle an old review? The same reason that Mercury Nashville would recycle a collection that they still have in print and retitle it GOLD. The two CDs have identical track listings and they even use the same cover photograph. The only real difference between the two is that GOLD is a couple bucks cheaper.
It's still great music, but I question the record company's motive. Anway, here's my original review:
More than fifty years after his untimely death, Hank Williams' influence is still felt across the landscape of popular music. He is one of the few recording artists to have been inducted into both the COuntry Music Hall of Fame (1961) and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (1987). Although regarded principally as a country artist, he was at heart a poet, putting into music and words the heartache, pain and loneliness that ultimately consumed him before his thirtieth...Read more
18 of 19 people found the following review helpful
HONKY-TONKING MAN,
August 2, 2007 Alfred Johnson (boston, ma) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Gold (Audio CD)
I have been listening to a local weekend folk, rock and contemporary music interview show here in Boston for years. The format of the show is to interview, in depth, contemporary well know singers, songwriters and musicians as well as young unknowns looking to make their mark. One of the questions always asked of each interviewee is about formative influences on their musical development. Although I do not believe that I have ever heard what I would consider a country singer interviewed on the show the name Hank Williams has come up many more times than any other from young and old interviewee alike. When New Age- type musicians are going on and on about brother Williams you know something is up. And that is exactly the point. He has been gone for over fifty years yet those well thought out ballads and `jump' country swing tunes still sound pretty damn good.
Sure that is easy for me to say now. Although I was raised in the North my father was from the South, a hillbilly...Read more
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
"...I'LL NEVER GET OUT OF THIS WORLD ALIVE" (Hank Williams Gold is an excellent collection of this legend's best music),
June 9, 2009 ol' nuff n' den sum (the Virginia coast, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Gold (Audio CD)
To say that the life of Hank Williams has been a major influence on modern music wouldn't be an exaggeration in the least. While it would be impossible to overstate his influence on country music, as a singer-songwriter and maverick poet/artist he has been an instrumental factor in the development of rock n' roll, country-rock and folk music as well.
In 1953, Hank Williams died at age 29 in the back seat of a Cadillac somewhere between Knoxville, Tennessee and Oak Hill, West Virginia while on the way to play a New Year's Day show in Canton, Ohio. Five days later his daughter, Jett Williams, was born. Two weeks later, the last single that he released in his lifetime reached #1 on Billboard's country singles chart. Ironically, the song's title was "I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive".
Hank Williams Gold (2005) is a...Read more
