Hank Thompson - Radio Broadcasts 1952 torrent

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Hank Thompson - Radio Broadcasts 1952
Flyright
Fly CD 948
1997

Tracklist :


01. Square Dab From The Country
02. Darling What More Can I Do
03. Shotgun Boogie
04. Brand On My Heart
05. Judy
06. Be My Life's Companion
07. I Gotta Have My Baby Back
08. Heart Full Of Love
09. I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love With You)
10. Easy To Please
11. Would You Care
12. Sixty Minute Man
13. Could You Take Me Back Again
14. Lost Highway
15. River Road Two-Step
16. I'm Lost Without You
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From one standpoint, a disc of single-take radio performances from Hank Thompson
is superfluous, because Thompson recorded three official live albums for Capitol
Records. On the other hand, this stuff -- cut for the U.S. government's Office of
Price Stabilization in 1952 -- is a good deal earlier than any of Thompson's
official live LPs, and so it captures his band and his sound at a choice point in
their history. The sound is fairly clean, but raw and loud throughout this 16-song
collection. The micing is close and the volume is high, so that one gets a sense of
what Thompson's live sound of the period was like, rougher and crunchier than his
studio sides. Dusty Stewart's steel guitar and Billy Gray's lead guitar are especially
impressive, and Thompson's singing is extraordinary. The songs include "Shotgun Boogie,"
which Thompson had yet to record officially, as well as numbers by Hank Williams ("I
Can't Help It"), Floyd Tillman ("I Gotta Have My Baby Back"), and others whom Thompson
admired. It all greatly expands the range of available Thompson recordings, a welcome
event in any case.

-- Bruce Eder
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