Track Listing 1. Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms 2. He Stopped Loving Her Today 3. Mystery Train 4. Oh Lonesome Me 5. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry 6. I'll Sail My Ship Alone 7. Columbus Stockade Blues 8. I'm Movin' On 9. Tumbling Tumbleweeds 10. Jambalya 11. Sweet Dreams 12. In The Pines 13. Heartaches By The Number 14. I Believe To My Soul 15. Funny How Time Slips Away 16. Footprints In The Snow 17. Night Life 18. Sixteen Tons 19. Wabash Cannonball 20. San Antonio Rose 21. You Win AGain 22. Ballad Of Jed Clampett
| Details | | Distributor: | RED Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes During the heyday of his '70s-era popularity, Leon Russell took on the alter-ego of Hank Wilson and intermittently cut pure country and bluegrass albums under that name as a nod to his own Okie roots. There were four of them, beginning with HANK WILSON'S BACK (1973), followed by HANK WILSON, VOL. 2 (1984), LEGEND IN MY TIME (1998), and RHYTHM & BLUEGRASS (2001). This 22-cut compilation assembles tracks from all of these recordings and is truly a generous sampling of the best of them. What is easily revealed here is that the Hank Wilson alter-ego, with its not-so-subtle references to Hank Williams, was no gimmick. Each of these recordings is solid in its own right and Russell is a tremendous interpreter--and sometimes radical rearranger--of the original material. For those in the know, it's a killer mixtape with three unreleased bonus cuts, including reads of "San Antonio Rose," "You Win Again," and "The Ballad of Jed Clampett."
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