The Absolutely Essential Collection

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Move It on Over
  2:44
  4.0 ★
• 2
  I Saw the Light
  2:44
• 3
  (Last Night) I Heard You Crying in Your Sleep
  2:42
• 4
  Six More Miles (To the Graveyard)
  2:46
• 5
  Fly Trouble
  2:43
• 6
  On the Banks of the Old Pontchartrain
  2:55
• 7
  Rootie Tootie
  2:45
• 8
  I Can't Get You Off of My Mind
  2:50
• 9
  I'm a Long Gone Daddy
  2:49
• 10
  Honky Tonkin'
  2:44
  3.8 ★
• 11
  My Sweet Love Ain't Around
  2:42
• 12
  The Blues Come Around
  2:41
• 13
  A Mansion on the Hill
  2:34
• 14
  I'll Be a Bachelor 'til I Die
  2:37
• 15
  There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight
  2:47
• 16
  Lovesick Blues
  2:43
  4.0 ★
• 17
  Lost Highway
  2:41
  5.0 ★
• 18
  May You Never Be Alone
  2:49
• 19
  Mind Your Own Business
  2:55
  4.0 ★
• 20
  You're Gonna Change (Or I'm Gonna Leave)
  2:55
• CD 2
• 1
  Wedding Bells
  2:54
• 2
  I've Just Told Mama Goodbye
  2:55
• 3
  I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
  2:46
  4.2 ★
• 4
  A House Without Love
  2:53
• 5
  I Just Don't Like This Kind of Livin'
  2:48
  5.0 ★
• 6
  My Bucket's Got a Hole in It
  2:32
  4.5 ★
• 7
  Long Gone Lonesome Blues
  2:37
• 8
  Why Don't You Love Me (Like You Used to Do)
  2:23
  4.0 ★
• 9
  Why Should We Try Anymore
  2:37
  4.0 ★
• 10
  My Son Calls Another Man Daddy
  2:33
• 11
  Too Many Parties, Too Many Pals
  2:59
• 12
  They'll Never Take Her Love From Me
  2:44
• 13
  Nobody's Lonesome for Me
  2:31
• 14
  Moanin' the Blues
  2:23
• 15
  Cold Cold Heart
  2:44
  4.0 ★
• 16
  Dear John
  2:38
• 17
  I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love With You)
  2:23
• 18
  Howlin' at the Moon
  2:42
  4.0 ★
• 19
  My Heart Would Know
  2:25
• 20
  Hey Good Lookin'
  2:53
  3.6 ★
• CD 3
• 1
  Ramblin' Man
  3:02
• 2
  I've Been Down That Road Before
  2:56
• 3
  I'd Still Want You
  2:59
• 4
  (I Heard the) Lonesome Whistle
  2:26
  5.0 ★
• 5
  Crazy Heart
  2:26
• 6
  Half as Much
  2:42
• 7
  Baby, We're Really in Love
  2:36
• 8
  I'm Sorry for You, My Friend
  2:42
• 9
  Honky Tonk Blues
  2:11
  4.0 ★
• 10
  Let's Turn Back the Years
  2:23
• 11
  Window Shopping
  2:28
• 12
  Jambalaya (On the Bayou)
  2:55
  4.0 ★
• 13
  Settin' the Woods on Fire
  2:34
• 14
  I'll Never Get Out If This World Alive
  2:24
• 15
  You Win Again
  2:36
  4.0 ★
• 16
  I Won't Be Home No More
  2:39
• 17
  I Could Never Be Ashamed of You
  2:44
• 18
  Your Cheatin' Heart
  2:40
  3.2 ★
• 19
  Kaw-Liga
  2:34
  5.0 ★
• 20
  Take These Chains From My Heart
  2:35

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The Ultimate Collection

The Ultimate Collection 2002

The Complete Hank Williams Sampler

The Complete Hank Williams Sampler 1998

The Complete Hank Williams

The Complete Hank Williams 1998

Alone and Forsaken

Alone and Forsaken 1995

Health & Happiness Shows

Health & Happiness Shows 1993

40 Greatest Hits

40 Greatest Hits 1978

Release credits

• Bronson Reynolds
  bass [1]
• Chet Atkins
  electric guitar [18]
• Clyde Baum
  mandolin [16]
• Dale Lohman
  steel guitar [1]
• Don Helms
  steel guitar [1.5, 3.18]
• Ernie Newton
  double bass [6]
• Farris Coursey
  drums (drum set) [18]
• Floyd D. 'Lightnin'' Chance
  bass [18]
• Hank Williams
  guitar [2.6, 3.18, 1.1, 1.5, 1.16], lead vocals [6], solo [6], vocal [2.7, 3.1, 3.18, 1.1, 1.5, 1.16]
• Jerry Byrd
  lap steel guitar [6], steel guitar [16]
• Louie Innis
  guitar [1.1, 1.16, 2.6]
• Sammy Pruett
  guitar [5]
• Tommy Jackson
  fiddle [1.1, 1.16, 2.6, 3.18]
• Willie Thawl
  bass [16]
• Zeke Turner
  electric guitar [1], guitar [1.16, 2.6]

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  The Absolutely Essential Collection

  3x CD
  23 February 2009