Hank Williams - Hillbilly Hero [4xCD Set]

Hillbilly Hero is a 4 CD Properbox set which explores the first seven years of Hank Williams' recording career between 1945 - 1951.

By New Year's day 1953 Hank would be dead. In the interim he managed to record a legacy that remains one of the greatest contributions to country and indeed popular music.

His personal life took in two marriages, years of pain with a congenital spine defect, which he sought to alleviate with drink and drugs, all of which he managed to translate into some of the most soulful music ever written, that explored a huge range of human to which any listener could relate.

Be it the heartbreak of a broken love affair, or whooping it up on a Saturday night, Hank had the ability to hit it home with a pithy song that went straight to the core of the subject.

Disc 1

• Calling You
• Never Again
• Wealth Won't Save Your Soul
• When God Comes And Gathers His Jewels
• My Love For You
• I Don't Care (If Tomorrow Never Comes)
• Honky Tonkin'
• Pan American
• Move It On Over
• I Saw The Light
• (Last Night) I Heard You Crying In Your Sleep
• Six More Miles
• Fly Trouble 
• On The Banks Of The Old Pontchartrain
• Rootie Tootie
• I Can't Get You Off My Mind
• I'm A Long Gone Daddy
• Honky Tonkin'
• My Sweet Love Ain't Around
• The Blues Come Around
• A Mansion On The Hill 
• I'll Be A Bachelor Till I Die
• Lost On The River
• There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight 
• I Heard My Mother Praying For Me
• Lovesick Blues

Disc 2

• Lost Highway
• May You Never Be Alone
• Dear Brother
• Jesus Remembered Me
• Mind Your Own Business
• You're Gonna Change (Or I'm Gonna Leave)
• Wedding Bells
• I've Just Told Mama Goodbye
• I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
• A House Without Love
• I Just Don't Like This Kind Of Livin'
• My Bucket's Got A Hole In It
• Long Gone Lonesome Blues 
• Why Don't You Love Me 
• Why Should We Try Anymore 
• My Son Calls Another Man Daddy
• Too Many Parties Too Many Pals
• Beyond The Sunset 
• The Funeral 
• Everything's Okay
• They'll Never Take Her Love From Me
• Nobody's Lonesome For Me
• Moanin' The Blues 
• Help Me Understand
• No No Joe
• Cold Cold Heart

Disc 3

• Dear John
• Just Waitin'
• Men With Broken Hearts 
• I Can't Help It
• Howlin' At The Moon
• Hey Good Lookin'
• My Heart Would Know
• Ramblin' Man
• Pictures From Life's Other Side
• I've Been Down That Road Before
• I Dreamed About Mama Last Night
• I'd Still Want You
• Lonesome Whistle 
• Crazy Heart
• Half As Much
• Baby We're Really In Love
• I'm Sorry For You My Friend
• Honky Tonk Blues
• Won't You Sometimes Think Of Me
• Why Should I Cry
• You Broke Your Own Heart
• I Watched My Dream World Crumble Like Clay 
• In My Dreams You Still Belong To Me 
• I Told A Lie To My Heart
• Singing Waterfall
• Pan American
• I'm Goin' Home
• A Home In Heaven

Disc 4 (Live: Health & Happiness Shows)

• Happy Rovin' Cowboy
• Mind Your Own Business
• Wedding Bells
• Cotton Eyed Joe
• I've Just Told Mama Goodbye
• Sally Goodin
• Happy Rovin' Cowboy
• I Can't Get You Off Of My Mind
• I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
• Fisher's Hornpipe
• Thy Burdens Are Greater Than Mine 
• Sally Goodin
• Happy Rovin' Cowboy
• Mansion On the Hill
• There'll Be No More Teardrops Tonight 
• Breakdown
• The Prodigal Son
• Sally Goodin
• Happy Rovin' Cowboy
• Pan American
• Lovesick Blues
• Arkansas Traveller
• I Saw The Light
• Sally Goodin
• Happy Rovin' Cowboy
• I'm A Long Gone Daddy
• I'm Telling You
• Bill Cheatam
• When God Comes And Gathers His Jewels
• Sally Goodin
• Happy Rovin' Cowboy
• Lost Highway
• I Wanna Live And Love Always
• Bile Them Cabbage Down
• I'll Have A New Body
• Fingers On Fire
• Sally Goodin