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40 Greatest Hits - Hank Williams


40 Greatest Hits - Hank Williams
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Like blues legends Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters, country titan Williams was blazing the rock & roll trail long before Elvis Presley stepped up to the mike at Sun Records in Memphis in 1954. But it wasn't until this package was released in 1978 that the rock crowd got hip to the danger and poetry in Williams' voice and songs. The album was an infant format when Williams died on New Year's Day 1953, so no single Williams LP combines the punch and scope of his genius like this all-hits set, which features, among other dynamite, "Move It On Over," "Lost Highway" and "Hey, Good Lookin'."


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