Live At The Grand Ole Opry [Live]

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Some years ago, MGM Records issued an LP of 11 Hank Williams Opry performances originally recorded for broadcast on Armed Forces Radio. Years of digging have unearthed much more Hank at the Ryman in crystal-clear monaural sound. Disc 1's 19 songs, punctuated by onstage joshing with singer Red Foley and Opry comics Minnie Pearl and Rod Brasfield, begin with his June 1949 debut as an Opry regular, ending in July 1952, a month before his firing over drinking-related no-shows. These powerful live renditions include the broadcast debuts of "Jambalaya" and "Window Shopping" along with two stark, chilling gospel numbers. Even with his physical stamina failing--as it clearly was on the final two songs--these raw performances are powerful testaments to Hank's charismatic genius and remain as arresting today as at the moment of broadcast. Disc 2, a complete 1950 Opry segment featuring Williams, Foley, and other Opry acts, is a historically valid, though musically inferior document, and including it on a Hank Williams package tends to dissipate the album's overall focus. --Rich Kienzle

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Average customer rating: A Must For Hank Fans makes you feel like youre there. hank versus the opry - guess who wins? The best Hank Williams Opry recordings available. 2 Unearthly Performances

Live At The Grand Ole Opry Hank Williams Manufacturer: Mercury Nashville ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music Honky-Tonk | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music Traditional Country | Live Albums | Country | Styles | Music General | Live Albums | Country | Styles | Music Country | Styles | Blowout Music | Stores | Music All Blowout Music | Blowout Music | Stores | Music More Titles at Least 25% Off | Blowout Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Health & Happiness Shows Alone with His Guitar Beyond the Sunset Live from the Grand Ole Opry Grand Ole Opry 75th Anniversary, Vol. 1 ASIN: B00001QGTM Release Date: 1999-09-28

Tracks:

1. Lovesick Blues
2. Wedding Bells
3. You're Gonna Change (Or I'm Gonna Leave)
4. Why Don't You Love Me
5. Comedy With Hank Williams
6. They'll Never Take Her Love From Me
7. Moanin' The Blues
8. Nobody's Lonesome For Me
9. Dear John
10. Cold, Cold Heart
11. Hey Good Lookin'
12. Honky Tonk Blues
13. Let The Spirit Descend
14. Baby We're Really In Love
15. Comedy With Hank Williams
16. The Old Country Church
17. I Can't Help It
18. Jambalaya (On The Bayou)
19. Half As Much
20. Window Shopping
21. Long Gone Lonesome Blues

Tracks:

1. Aunt Jemima's Plaster - Red Foley
2. Lead Me To That Rock - Wally Fowler
3. I Just Don't Like This Kind Of Livin'
4. Comedy - Minnie Pearl
5. Lord, I'm Coming Home - Red Foley
6. Oh, You Beautiful Doll - Claude Sharpe
7. Comedy With Jamup & Honey
8. Lovesick Blues
9. You Ain't Got Faith - Wolly Fowler
10. Church Music - Red Foley

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Some years ago, MGM Records issued an LP of 11 Hank Williams Opry performances originally recorded for broadcast on Armed Forces Radio. Years of digging have unearthed much more Hank at the Ryman in crystal-clear monaural sound. Disc 1's 19 songs, punctuated by onstage joshing with singer Red Foley and Opry comics Minnie Pearl and Rod Brasfield, begin with his June 1949 debut as an Opry regular, ending in July 1952, a month before his firing over drinking-related no-shows. These powerful live renditions include the broadcast debuts of "Jambalaya" and "Window Shopping" along with two stark, chilling gospel numbers. Even with his physical stamina failing--as it clearly was on the final two songs--these raw performances are powerful testaments to Hank's charismatic genius and remain as arresting today as at the moment of broadcast. Disc 2, a complete 1950 Opry segment featuring Williams, Foley, and other Opry acts, is a historically valid, though musically inferior document, and including it on a Hank Williams package tends to dissipate the album's overall focus. --Rich Kienzle

Customer Reviews:

A Must For Hank Fans.......2007-06-27

I am so glad to have this in my collection. It is worth owning just for the original performance of "Lovesick Blues" at the Opry, the moment that catapulted the King of Country into the stratosphere and elicited six encores at the time. Some of the comedy is corny for today but it is still a great time capsule of what the Grand Ole Opry was like for listeners all across the country before the birth of rock 'n roll. This is a must have for any fan of Hank Williams.

makes you feel like youre there........2004-12-05

this is so sweet. its an awsome live album by mr williams sr. kinda makes you feel like your there watching the concert in person, so i give this one a 5 stars for sure. long live the king hank williams sr.

hank versus the opry - guess who wins?.......2003-08-30

For a guy who died before he turned 30, Williams' catalogue is astounding in volume. But this latest addition is a bit of a sick joke. Throughout much of his career, the deleterious country singer and the stodgy ole Opry had what could best be described as - ahem - a strained relationship. The Opry, with an audience of millions, insisted on predictability from its performers. For Hank, that meant cranking out the hits with zero elaboration on his talent. But Williams was also chronically self-destructive and indifferent to schedules. For the Opry, such impudence was tantamount to heresy. But Williams was so popular, they were forced to bend their own rules until they kicked him out forever after repeated no-shows in 1952. But despite such a fractious partnership, this stuttered collection of Williams live on the Opry stage between 1949 and 1952 remains a testament to the tortured musician's brilliance, not the prudence of the hoity-toity GOO. In addition to loads of unreleased material, the big difference between this and previous releases is that Williams' appearances are put in the context of the Opry variety show (particularly on the second CD, which is a radio broadcast of one complete show in 1950). Historically speaking, the comedy bits between the songs are an irritating embarrassment; various displays of painful jokemeistering, hillbilly foolishness and a prolonged and excruciating Minnie Pearl routine that bombs like the Enola Gay. Not so with Williams. More than 50 years after these crackly and prehistoric live recordings were made, Williams' graveyard bluegrass/blues and famished n' horny coyote howl are as plaintively substantial as ever; from his first hit (Lovesick Blues, You're Gonna Change) until his final performances (Window Shopping, Long Gone Lonesome Blues). Nobody, not the Opry, God or Williams himself, were able to diminish his reputation as a fascinating and genuine talent unequalled in country music.

The best Hank Williams Opry recordings available........2002-09-16

For those of you who own THE COMPLETE HANK WILLIAMS box set, this CD looks like a mere duplication of CD #10. It really isn't. It's substantially better. Well worth owning at the right price.

Five of the tracks ("I Can't Help It," "Wedding Bells," "Jambalaya," "Window Shopping," and "Half as Much") are brand new and excellent. The first and last are especially outstanding. Additionally, there are six new song versions that are generally longer and better than the versions on the set. "Long Gone Lonesome Blues," with more vocal inflection than any other, is the best live version. "Why Don't You Love Me," "Moanin' the Blues," and "Nobody's Lonesome for Me" are longer versions than on the set. "Cold, Cold Heart" has more feeling than the set version, although I prefer the set version for the violin quality of the fiddle.

Ignore the second disc; it's [not that great]. I suspect Mercury stuck this on so that the set would roughly correspond in quality and length to their HEALTH AND HAPPINESS set. The latter, while essential to own, totals only 96 minutes and has lots of filler with eight versions of "Happy Rovin' Cowboy," and "Sally Goodin'," plus Audrey's screeches, etc. Disc one of LIVE AT THE GRAND OLE OPRY makes the whole thing worthwhile.

In conclusion, Disc One of LIVE AT THE GRAND OLE OPRY is worth owning. Look for a good used copy, or an inexpensive new copy, of this. It probably isn't worth paying the retail price for this product, any more than the HEALTH AND HAPPINESS SHOWS is worth the full retail price. ...

2 Unearthly Performances.......2001-12-05

This 2-CD set brings together some truly sublime performances (the Grand Ole Opry armed forces debut of "Lovesick Blues" and "Move It On Over") on disc 1, but little of consequence is contained on disc 2. The "Move It On Over" track was 'recently discovered' in Mercury's vaults, but most of these live recordings were released on the 10-CD box set, lending truth to my suspicion that Mercury is hoarding the majority of these unearthly live performances and will release them one at a time, packaging them around fill (as in disc 2 of this set), intending to fleece the pockets of Hank Williams, Sr. fans. I would think that CD sales figures from Nashville's highest paid lap dancer (Shania Twain) should be more than enough to sustain Mercury's profit-hungry accounting department. This box set proves that to be wrong.

Average customer rating: A great live from the Panola County singer

Live at the Grand Ole Opry Jim Reeves Manufacturer: Country Music Found. ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music Nashville Sound | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music Traditional Country | Live Albums | Country | Styles | Music General | Live Albums | Country | Styles | Music ASIN: B000000QIK Release Date: 2000-09-12

Tracks:

1. Yonder Comes A Sucker
2. Waitin' For A Train
3. Am I Losing You?
4. When God Dips His Love In My Heart
5. According To My Heart
6. Four Walls
7. Mexican Joe
8. Anna Marie
9. Blue Boy
10. Softly And Tenderly (Jesus Is Calling)
11. He'll Have To Go
12. Bimbo
13. I'd Like To Be
14. Peace In The Valley
15. Billy Bayou
16. In A Mansion Stands My Love
17. I'm Getting Better
18. (Gimme That) Old Time Religion
19. I Know One
20. I Missed Me

Customer Reviews:

A great live from the Panola County singer.......2001-05-30

I reckon this live album very involving, making you feel like you were there listening to the concert. According to me, the best pieces are According to my heart and When God dips His love in my heart. I found very funny two other pieces, Yonder comes a sucker and Waitin' for a train, with their traditional Western Swing rhythm. What to say more? These songs are evergreen, and never out of fashion.

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Bill Anderson Hosts Backstage At the Grand Ole Opry (HDCD) (Live) Bill Anderson , Roy Acuff , Alan Jackson , Lorrie Morgan , Minnie Pearl , Diamond Rio , Dottie West , Steve Wariner , Hank Snow , and Martina McBride Manufacturer: BMG ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B000BCZX1S

Product Description

HDCD (High Definition Compatible Digital) Bill Anderson Hosts Backstage at the Grand Ole Opry // 1. Backstage Breakdown (Opry Backstage Theme - Opening) - Bill Anderson 2. Wabash Cannonball - Roy Acuff 3. Here In The Real World - Alan Jackson 4. I've Enjoyed As Much As I Can Stand - Lorrie Morgan 5. Comedy - Roy Acuff And Minnie Pearl 6. Meet In The Middle - Diamond Rio 7. Here Comes My Baby - Dottie West 8. Midnight Fire - Steve Wariner 9. Sweet Lies - Hank Snow 10. Wrong Again - Martina McBride 11. The Lord Made A Hobo Out Of Me - Boxcar Willie 12. Hard To Be A Husband, Hard To Be A Wife - Brad Paisley And Chely Wright 13. I Never Knew Lonely - Vince Gill 14. Backstage Breakdown (Opry Backstage Theme - Closing) - Bill Anderson

Average customer rating: WONDERFUL

Live at the Opry: Celebrating 50 Years on the Grand Ole Opry Bill Monroe Manufacturer: Mca Special Products ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Traditional | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Bluegrass | Live Albums | Country | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Live Albums | Folk | Styles | Music CDs Under $7 | Bluegrass | Country | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Bluegrass | Country | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs Under $7 | Traditional Folk | Folk | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Traditional Folk | Folk | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music 4-for-3 Country | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Pop | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Live from the Grand Ole Opry Grand Ole Opry 75th Anniversary, Vol. 1 Grand Ole Opry 75th Anniversary, Vol. 2 Live At The Grand Ole Opry ASIN: B0000062ZC Release Date: 1998-03-10

Tracks:

1. New Mule Skinner Blues
2. Molly And Tenbrooks
3. Footprints In The Snow
4. Sittin' Alone In The Moonlight
5. Precious Memories
6. Rawhide
7. My Sweet Darlin'
8. In The Pines
9. Love, Please Come Home
10. Pike Country Breakdown
11. I'm Working On A Building
12. Theme
13. Bonus Track 1

Customer Reviews:

WONDERFUL.......2000-02-08

I've seen Mr. Monroe countless times. I am still having a hard time believing that he is gone. However, this particular album reminds me of the shows I've seen, starring the one and only Bill Monroe. If you've never seen him live, this is a good sampling of what you might have heard. Of course, his live shows were a lot longer than this album, but some of his most requested numbers are contained here. It brings back wonderful, wonderful memories to me.

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