Hank Williams – Only Mother's Best 3LP

Hank Williams – Only Mother's Best

3LP Collection Features Remastered Music - First Time Ever On Vinyl!

These Songs Only Ever Appeared On 'Mother's Best'!

No Other Studio, Radio, or Live Recordings Exist Of The Songs Included Here!

3LP Set featuring the best of Hank's Mother's Best Radio Transcription includes "Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain," "I'll Fly Away," "Have I Told You Lately That I Love You," "When The Saints Go Marching In" & more.

Hank Williams' career was brief and incendiary. Most of those fortunate enough to have seen him in concert say that he was a captivating performer. Now, sixty years after his passing, we finally get a sense of Hank Williams onstage, adding another dimension to our scant knowledge of him. Still popular today, he's a giant in American music.

DESTINED TO SURVIVE: The performances heard here were recorded on acetate discs (meant to be played only once or twice) that were shelved in 1951, and they gradually faded from common memory. In the 1970s the acetates were saved from the trash by a WSM employee and eventually given to Hank's daughter, Jett. On behalf of the estate, Jett fought an eight-year battle to establish ownership, finally winning the right to release these recordings in partnership with Time Life.

• 3LP Set
• First time ever on vinyl
• Compiles the songs that ONLY ever appeared on 'Mother's Best'
• No other studio, radio, or live recordings exist of the songs included here
• Audio restored and mastered by Michael Graves
• Triple gatefold packaging
• New liner notes from Colin Escott
• Made in USA

Tracklist:
Side One:
I'll Sail My Ship Alone
Where The Old Red River Flows
Have I Told You Lately That I Love You
I Am Bound For The Promised Land
Pins And Needles In My Heart
Next Sunday Darling Is My Birthday

Side Two:
Low And Lonely
Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain
Cherokee Boogie
Just When I Needed You
The Blind Child's Prayer
Where He Leads Me, I Will Follow
At The Cross

Side Three:
Lonely Tombs (Oh Those Tombs)
Dust On The Bible
I Dreamed That The Great Judgement Morning
I've Got A One-Way Ticket To The Sky
When The Fire Comes Down From Heaven
I'll Fly Away

Side Four:
I Can't Tell My Heart That
Deck Of Cards
I Heard My Savior Calling Me
Softly And Tenderly
Precious Lord Take My Hand
The Funeral / Steal Away

Side Five:
You Blotted My Happy School Days
Gathering Flowers For The Master's Bouquet
Thirty Pieces Of Silver
Lord Build Me A Cabin
Searching For A Soldier's Grave
That Beautiful Home

Side Six:
On Top Of Old Smoky
I Hang My Head And Cry
Seaman's Blues
If I Didn't Love You
From Jerusalem To Jericho
When The Saints Go Marching In

Label: BMG
Released: 2020