Hank Williams - Beyond The Sunset

Artist:

Williams, Hank

UPC:

008817018423

See Also:

Wills, Bob Various Artists - The Hank Williams Songbook Iron Horse (Bluegrass) - The Gospel According To Hank Williams

Description:

Compilation producers: Colin Escott, Kira Florita.
Recorded between 1950 & 1952. Includes liner notes by Colin Escott.
Digitally remastered by Suha Gur (Universal Mastering Studios East).
BEYOND THE SUNSET collects all the recordings Hank Williams made as his artistic (and on some level psychological) alter ego Luke the Drifter on one disc. Mostly, these are recitations rather than songs (although the edgy, minor-key "Ramblin` Man" is sung) and with a few exceptions, like the funny, anti-Stalin "No, No Joe," they`re either unrelentingly bleak and despairing ("Men With Broken Hearts") or else cautionary tales ("I`ve Been Down That Road Before") presenting the sort of hard-won advice that Williams could dish out but not really take. Highlights include the now hopelessly politically incorrect but nonetheless heartfelt "The Funeral," and "Too Many Parties," a depressing one-act morality play co-written, oddly enough, by the same up-beat Tin Pan Alley denizen responsible for "I`m Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover."

Track Listing:

DISC 1

1. Pictures From Life`s Other Side
2. Men With Broken Hearts
3. Help Me Understand
4. Too Many Parties and Too Many Pals
5. Please Make up Your Mind
6. I`ve Been Down That Road Before
7. Be Careful of Stones That You Throw
8. I Dreamed About Mama Last Night
9. Funeral, The
10. Beyond the Sunset
11. Just Waitin`
12. Everything`s Okay
13. No, No Joe - (bonus track)
14. Ramblin` Man - (bonus track)

Album Information

Release Date:

02/27/2001

Type:

Performer

Genre:

Country

Subgenre:

Honkytonk

Label:

Polydor

Catalog Number:

170 184

Original Release Year:

1963

# of Discs:

1

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Mono

Runtime:

41 : 5

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