VA: - Sun Shines On Hank Williams

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• Kunto Uusi
• Tyyppi CD
• Julkaisija Bear Family Records
• SKU 5397102175046
• Artisti VA:
• Lyhyt kuvaus 1-CD with 28-page booklet, 28 tracks. Total playing time approx. 58 minutes. A total of eight previously unreleased masters! Sun Records recording artists sing the songs of the great Hank Williams. A total of 26 country recordings from the years 1957 to 1963. Next to famous artists like Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis we present lesser known recordings by Sonny Burgess, Warren Smith or Carl Mann. Well-known titles combined with several unreleased alternate versions and demos! Carefully remastered for best possible sound, with extensive liner notes by Hank Davis. Hank Williams died too soon to know about Sun Records existence, but the folks at Sun surely knew about him. This CD collects for the first time the response to Hank Williams by Sun recording artists and producers. We present already issued records by major artists (Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis) as well as lesser known Sun lights (Sonny Burgess, Warren Smith, Carl Mann) along with originally unissued alternate takes, undubbed recordings and demos. It's quite a range: male and female, black and white, they all took on Hank Williams. Sixteen different artists singing 16 different songs. Twenty-six tracks in all. The contrast is amazing. You'll also hear some candid moments of Sam Phillips working as a producer in the studio. And there's a memorable bit of egotistical comedy as Jerry Lee Lewis, in discussion with Phillips, takes credit for writing a Hank Williams song. A unique collection showing the impact of Williams on Sun Records in the ten years following the singer's death in 1953.
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