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"I thought he lived in our house. When I was a boy in Alabama, his voice, his words, his agony and joy and spirit were as inescapable as the heat, the damp, the sound of the wind in the pines… Even in his beautifully tailored western suits, he had told our story with beauty and pride and pain and something very close to love, for a man who had seemed to loathe himself, before he died…"
- Excerpt from Bragg's liner notes
23 Performances, from Hank's debut broadcast performance in June of 1949 to one of his last in July of 1952, including:
- 8 previously unissued versions of classic hits
- 3 tracks for the first time on CD BONUS DISC of one complete Opry show with the entire cast of performers: including Red Foley, Minnie Pearl, Jamup & Honey, Wally Fowler & the Oak Ridge Quartet, and Claude Sharpe & The Old Hickory Singers.
Liner notes by Rick Bragg, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the best-selling novel All Over But The Shoutin'. Congratulations to Rick Bragg on his Grammy Nomination in the album liner notes category for Live At The Grand Ole Opry.
Contextual liner notes by Colin Escott, Grammy-winning reissue producer and author of Hank Williams: The Biography