STUCK IN THE VINYL AGAIN - HANK WILLIAMS - GREATEST HITS

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Good morning Sunday people and welcome to the inaugural edition of Stuck In The Vinyl Again 2023 ! Happy New Year gang ! We hope your celebrations were the stuff of legendary lifelong memories and everyone arrived safely at their destinations. 

Sorrow and woe.

Those words evoke sounds, sights, and sentiments in me. The sound of a lonesome voice wailing and sometimes yodeling into the night. The sight of a white Stetson. The sentiment that before I ever walked this earth a man of greater talent had left it and with his departure a void that can never be filled, but his music and legacy and progeny attempt to keep that sentiment alive everyday and so far they have been extremely successful . 

Hank Hiram Williams. Born September 17, 1923 in the rural Mount Olive in Butler County, Alabama. He was Son of Jessie Lillybelle "Lillie" (née Skipper) (1898–1955) and Elonzo Huble "Lon" Williams (1891–1970). A couple of years before Hank was born, his Brother Ernest Huble Williams was born, but only lived 2 days. His Sister Irene was born a year later. Hank was born with spina bifida occulta which served as a source of constant physical pain and contributed to his alcohol and drug abuse.

31 singles and two 10 inch LPs in what basically amounted to a six year career. Called the King Of Country Music, The Hillbilly Shakespeare , and The Alabama Troubadour, his influence on the country music and pop genres is incalculable for not only inspiring countless up and coming musicians, to this day,  but also in his own Family tree, including his Son Hank, Jr., Daughter Jett, Grandsons Hank III, and Sam,  Granddaughters Hilary, Holly, and Katie, and the newest edition to the musical bloodline, Coleman who also goes by the moniker IV. 

Hank passed away January 1, 1953. A baby blue Cadillac heading into the woods of Oak Hill, W.Va., driven by a 17 year old  Charles Carr, a college freshmen, on Christmas vacation from Auburn University. He took him to the hospital but it was too late. The King was dead at age 29. The official cause was heart failure. 70 years later we still mourn. 

Today, turning on our table is this 1961 MGM compilation, Greatest Hits. On it we find 14 of his greatest indeed. There's nothing I can say about the music. It continues to speak deafening volumes for itself. I assume it always will.

A1 Cold, Cold Heart
Written-By – Williams
2:42

A2 Jambalaya (On The Bayou)
Written-By – Williams
2:47

A3 You Win Again
Written-By – Williams
2:33

A4 Kaw-Liga
Written-By – Rose, Williams
2:33

A5 Take These Chains From My Heart
Written-By – Rose, Heath
2:35

A6 There'll Be No Tear-Drops Tonight
Written-By – Williams
2:42

A7 Settin' The Woods On Fire
Written-By – Nelson, Rose
2:33

B1 Your Cheatin' Heart
Written-By – Williams
2:38

B2 Hey, Good Lookin'
Written-By – Williams
2:35

B3 Honky Tonkin'
Written-By – Williams
2:40

B4 I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love WIth You)
Written-By – Williams
2:23

B5 Why Don't You Love Me
Written-By – Williams
2:23

B6 I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
Written-By – Williams
2:43

B7 Half As Much
Written-By – Curly Williams
2:39

Hank - vocals, guitar, sorrow and woe

Liner Notes – Charlie Lamb