| | Hank Williams, Jr Early Years PT. 2: Original Classic Hits Vol. 14 CD Hank Williams, Jr Discography of CDs
Early Years, Vol. 2 contains material released just prior to Hank Williams, Jr.'s breakthrough onto the country charts. The ten tracks are pulled from two of his earliest sessions for Elektra Records, One Night Stands and New South. Both albums utilized modern Southern rock arrangements, a direction that would lead Hank Jr. to the top of the country charts in the '80s. Most of the material on this compilation still sounds great, especially Steve Young's "Montgomery in the Rain" and Gordon Lightfoot's "Looking at the Rain." The one dud here is an awful cover version of Jackson Browne's "You Love the Thunder." ~ Al Campbell
This is Volume 14 of Curb's Bocephus series.
Producers include: Richie Albright, Waylon Jennings, Hank Williams, Jr., Terry Woodford, Clayton Ivey. Early Years PT. 2: Original Classic Hits Vol. 14 Music Hank Williams, Jr Early Years PT. 2: Original Classic Hits Vol. 14 Songs Early Years PT. 2: Original Classic Hits Vol. 14 Review
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There are great records, and then there are records like this one, which is an adventure as well as incomparable listening. And don't be repelled by the 100-plus dollar price tag -- this five-disc set manages to be a hootenanny, a history lesson, a light-hearted voyage through pasts musical, political, and cultural, and a pop-culture travelogue all in one, and an investment that will pay off five or ten times that amount in smiles and a few tears. The usual assumption is that the Weavers started their recording career with Gordon Jenkins at Decca Records, adapting their folk sound into an early-'50s popular style, but disc one dispells this notion, going back to the quartet's true recording debut, for Charter Records in 1949. We walk in on them singing in blues and gospel styles, freely injecting elements of country music and also going for some of the kind of four-way acrobatics that one more commonly associated with pop ensembles of the era -- in other words, doing all of the stuff that they made their names with in their reunion years of the middle/late '50s, except that these sides have mostly been unheard for 51 years. Some of this music is topical and might have come off as dangerously confrontational in the reactionary political climate of 1949, but most of it would probably have slipped by on its sheer beauty and inventiveness, and much of it, if it could have been issued during the 1960s, would surely have found an audience. At least one song, "Dig My Grave," would even have qualified as "world music," had such a term existed at the time, drawing on a Bahamian source. Lee Hays' "Love Song Blues" and the group's original version of "The Hammer Song" (co-authored by Hays and Pete Seeger), which were never even issued by the Charter label, are worth a quarter of the price of this box, and they're only two of the highlights on the first disc. A March-April 1950 demo filled with more topical songs shows some of the material that they abandoned in favor of safer songs when they began recording for Decca the following month, so there is a bit of lost history here -- and the disc is rounded out by eight live performances from WNYC radio from 1949 and 1950, hosted by Oscar Brand, opening with the broadcast on which Lee Hays announces that the quartet have finally selected a name; these recordings preserve the sense of humor that put the quartet over the top with audiences at the Village Vanguard; the broadcast performance of "Love Song Blues" is, if anything, even more impressive than the unissued Charter recording; and despite a few technical flubs, Hayes' "Washington Square Blues" is also a highlight, featuring ...
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