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Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Move It on Over
2. Mansion on a Hill, A
3. Lovesick Blues
4. Wedding Bells
5. Mind Your Own Business
6. You're Gonna Change (Or I'm Gonna Leave)
7. Lost Highway
8. My Bucket's Got a Hole in It
9. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
10. I Just Don't Like This Kind of Living
11. Long Gone Lonesome Blues
12. My Son Calls Another Man Daddy
13. Why Don't You Love Me
14. Why Should We Try Anymore
15. They'll Never Take Her Love From Me
16. Moanin' the Blues
17. Nobody's Lonesome For Me
18. Cold Cold Heart
19. Dear John
20. Howlin' at the Moon
DISC 2:
1. I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love With You)
2. Hey Good Lookin'
3. Crazy Heart
4. Lonesome Whistle (I Heard That)
5. Baby, We're Really in Love
6. Ramblin' Man
7. Honky Tonk Blues
8. I'm Sorry For You My Friend
9. Half as Much
10. Jambalaya (On the Bayou)
11. Window Shopping
12. Settin' the Woods on Fire
13. You Win Again
14. I'll Never Get Out of the World Alive
15. Kaw-Liga
16. Your Cheatin' Heart
17. Take These Chains From My Heart
18. I Won't Be Home No More
19. Weary Blues From Waitin'
20. I Saw the Light
| Details | | Producer: | Fred Rose, Wesley Rose | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Mono | | SPAR Code: | AAD |
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Hank Williams (vocals, acoustic guitar); Zeke Turner (guitar); Jerry Byrd (steel guitar).
Recorded at Castle Recording Co. and Castle Studios, Nashville, Tennessee between April 21, 1947 and September 23, 1952; Herzog Studios, Cincinnati, Ohio on December 22, 1948 and August 30, 1949.
Mastered from the original mono tapes and 78-rpm discs.
Those seeking a definitive introduction to Hank Williams Sr.'s music need look no further than 40 GREATEST HITS, a beautifully produced set that includes all but three of Hank's Top 20 hits. All the essential tracks are here, revealing Williams' mastery of both heartbreak songs (for which he, the composer of "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry," "Cold, Cold Heart" and numerous other classics, is justly famous) and joyful, upbeat numbers (such as "Jambalaya," "Hey, Good Lookin'," and "Howling at the Moon").
Unlike many Williams retrospectives, 40 GREATEST HITS abstains from efforts to "improve" Hank's music with such abominations as "enhanced stereo" (a cheesy reprocessing trick that transforms monophonic recordings into poor, echo-laden approximations of stereo) and posthumously added string sections. Instead, the set presents Williams' music in its original monophonic setting. 40 GREATEST HITS is arranged chronologically, allowing listeners to better appreciate the rapid rise and development of country's greatest singer and songwriter.
Industry Reviews
Ranked #129 in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time - [N]o single Williams LP combines the punch and scope of his genius like this all-hits set...
Rolling Stone (12/11/2003)
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