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Digitally remastered by Joseph M. Palmaccio (PolyGram Studios).
Alone among the many compilations of Hank Williams's venerable recordings, ALONE AND FORSAKEN focuses on the country icon's dark-night-of-the-soul material. Williams was a well-rounded songwriter capable of devotional ballads, devout spirituals, and light-hearted novelties, but he really excelled at the kind of songs that allowed him to bare his troubled soul. The ill-fated Williams led a 29-year life that made Kurt Cobain's look like a cakewalk. The keening twang of his voice bespeaks untold depths of pain and despair as he mourns a broken marriage (the title cut), regrets his wayward lifestyle ("Ramblin' Man"), and stares loneliness dead in the eye ("Weary Blues from Waitin'").
This expertly compiled disc features both justified classics and less-familiar tunes, but they all bear a weight that marks Williams as the spiritual father of any subsequent singer-songwriter who ever explored the dark side, from Leonard Cohen to Jim Morrison. While Williams's natural sense of humor does come out amidst all the existential angst, and there are a couple of hymn-like pleas to the savior, this is heavy, uncompromising stuff; some of the most haunting, powerful songs ever written, period.
18 digitally remastered tracks including a spoken intro from the compiler, Mark Johnson (The The). Tracks, 'Intro', 'Alone & Forsaken', 'Please Don't Let Me Love You', 'Ramblin Man', '(I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle', 'Lost Highway', 'I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry', 'Cold, Cold Heart', 'I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive', 'I've Been Down That Road Before', 'I Saw The Light', 'You Win Again', 'Please Make Up Your Mind', 'Someday You'll Call My Name', 'Ready To Go Home', 'Weary Blues From Waitin'', 'I Can't Escape From You' & 'Angel Of Death'. 2002.
Recorded between 1946 and 1952. Includes liner notes by Matt Johnson.
Compilation producers: Kira Florita, Jim Kemp.
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