Hank Williams

In 1951, if you were awake at 7:15 in the morning and your radio was within the long reach
of Nashville's WSM-AM, you had Hank Williams with your farina, singing with his Drifting
Cowboys and selling sacks of flour for his sponsor, Mother's Best. Williams wasn't in the
WSM studio at that hour; he prerecorded the shows on days off from touring. But the 54
performances in this three-CD set pack a magical, concentrated immediacy that i... More >