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The Complete Hank Williams is an award-winning 1998 box set collecting almost all of the recorded works of country music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

legend Hank Williams, from his first recorded track in 1937 to the last session prior to his untimely death in 1952 at the age of 29. While a number of live and overdubbed songs are excluded, the ten disc collection contains 225 tracks, including studio sessions, live performances and demos. Among those 225 songs are 33 hit singles and 53 previously unreleased tracks.

Reception

The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...

hailed the release of the compilation, timed to coincidence with what would have been Williams' 75th birthday, as "an important event," indicating "that it is impossible to understand contemporary country music, or popular music for that matter, without addressing Hank Williams's legacy". In 1999, the compilation won two Grammy awards, for "Best Historical Album" and "Best Recording Package—Boxed". In 2003, Rolling Stone Magazine listed the compilation at #225 in its list of "Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time".

Packaging

In addition to the 10 discs, the box set includes a book entitled The Music which holds the CDs and incorporates 30 pages of information about the songs, including photographs of performance and information on charting. It also contains a 120-page book entitled The Stories which includes essays and notes about Williams and his work as well as assembling comments about Williams from other musicians, including Alan Jackson

Alan Jackson

Alan Eugene Jackson is an American country music singer, known for blending traditional honky tonk and mainstream country sounds and penning many of his own hits. He has recorded 13 studio albums, 3 Greatest Hits albums, 2 Holiday albums, 1 Gospel album and several compilations, all on the Arista...

, Tony Bennett

Tony Bennett

Tony Bennett is an American singer of popular music, standards, show tunes, and jazz....

and Mike Mills

Mike Mills

Michael Edward "Mike" Mills is an American multi-instrumentalist and composer who was a founding member of the alternative rock group R.E.M.. Though known primarily as a bass guitarist, backing vocalist, and pianist, his musical repertoire includes also keyboards, guitar, and percussion instruments...

of R.E.M.. Art in the package includes eight postcards, over a hundred photos, replicas of Williams' handwritten lyrics for several songs and a copy of the January 1, 1953 telegraph in which Williams' mother announced his death to his sister.

Disc one

"Calling You" – 2:53
"Never Again (Will I Knock on Your Door)" – 2:53
"Wealth Won't Save Your Soul" – 2:45
"When God Comes and Gathers His Jewels" – 2:48
"I Don't Care (if Tomorrow Never Comes)" – 2:46
"My Love for You (Has Turned to Hate)" – 2:39
"Honky Tonkin'" – 2:45
"Pan Americans" – 2:47
"Move It on Over" – 2:44
"I Saw the Light" – 2:43
"(Last Night) I Heard You Crying in Your Sleep" – 2:42
"Six More Miles (To the Graveyard)" – 2:46
"Fly Trouble" (Bunny Biggs, Fred Rose
Fred Rose (musician)
Fred Rose was an American Hall of Fame songwriter and music publishing executive.-Biography:Born in Evansville, Indiana, Fred Rose started playing piano and singing as a small boy. In his teens, he moved to Chicago, Illinois where he worked in bars busking for tips, and finally vaudeville...

, Honey Wilds) – 2:42
"I'm Satisfied With You" (Rose) – 2:33
"On the Banks of the Old Pontchartrain" (Ramona Vincent, Hank Williams) – 2:50
"Rootie Tootie" (Rose) – 2:44
"I Can't Get You off of My Mind" – 2:49
"I'm a Long Gone Daddy" – 2:48
"Honky Tonkin'" – 2:42
"My Sweet Love Ain't Around" – 2:42
"The Blues Come Around" – 2:40
"A Mansion on the Hill" (Rose, Williams) – 2:33

Disc two

"I'll Be a Bachelor 'Til I Die" – 2:35
"There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight" – 2:46
"Lovesick Blues" (Cliff Friend
Cliff Friend
Cliff Friend was an accomplished songwriter and pianist. A member of Tin Pan Alley, Friend co-wrote several hits including "Lovesick Blues," "My Blackbirds Are Bluebirds Now" and "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down," also known as the theme song to the Looney Tunes cartoon series.-Early life:Friend was...

, Irving Mills
Irving Mills
Irving Mills was a jazz music publisher, also known by the name of "Joe Primrose."Mills was born to Jewish parents in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. He founded Mills Music with his brother Jack in 1919...

) – 2:45
"Lost on the River" – 2:32
"I Heard My Mother Praying for Me" (Audrey Williams
Audrey Williams
Audrey Mae Sheppard , better known as Audrey Williams, was an American musician and the first wife of country music icon Hank Williams, mother of Hank Williams, Jr...

, Williams) – 2:33
"Lost Highway" (Leon Payne
Leon Payne
Leon Payne , "the Blind Balladeer", was a country music singer and songwriter.-Life:Leon Roger Payne was born in Alba, Texas on June 15, 1917. He was blind in one eye at birth, and lost the sight of the other eye in early childhood. He attended the Texas School for the Blind from 1924 to 1935,...

) – 2:40
"May You Never Be Alone" – 2:48
"Dear Brother" – 2:44
"Jesus Remembered Me" – 2:50
"Honky Tonk Blues" – 2:37
"Mind Your Own Business" – 2:53
"You're Gonna Change (Or I'm Gonna Leave)" – 2:56
"My Son Calls Another Man Daddy" – 2:33
"Wedding Bells" (Claude Boone) – 2:53
"I've Just Told Mama Goodbye" (Curly Kinsey, Slim Sweet) – 2:53
"I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
"I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" is a song written and recorded by American country music singer-songwriter Hank Williams in 1949. The song about loneliness was largely inspired by his troubled relationship with wife Audrey Sheppard...

" – 2:45
"A House Without Love" – 2:52
"I Just Don't Like This Kind of Livin'" – 2:47
"My Bucket's Got a Hole in It" – 2:04
"My Bucket's Got a Hole in It" – 2:31
"Long Gone Lonesome Blues" – 2:36
"Why Don't You Love Me (Like You Used to Do)?" – 2:22
"Why Should We Try Anymore" – 2:36
"My Son Calls Another Man Daddy" – 2:32

Disc three

"Too Many Parties and Too Many Pals" (Mort Dixon
Mort Dixon
-Biography:Born in New York, Dixon began writing songs in the early 1920s, and was active into the 1930s. He achieved success with his first published effort, 1923's "That Old Gang of Mine". His chief composer collaborators were Ray Henderson, Harry Warren, Harry M...

, Ray Henderson
Ray Henderson
Ray Henderson , was an American songwriter.Born Raymond Brost in Buffalo, New York, Henderson moved to New York City and became a popular composer in Tin Pan Alley...

, Billy Rose) – 2:57
"Beyond the Sunset" (Blanche Brock, Virgil Brock, Albert Kennedy) – 2:58
"The Funeral" – 3:03
"Everything's Okay" – 2:48
"They'll Never Take Her Love from Me" (Payne) – 2:43
"Nobody's Lonesome for Me" – 2:29
"Moanin' the Blues" – 2:22
"Help Me Understand" – 2:54
"No, No Joe" (Rose) – 2:26
"Cold, Cold Heart" – 2:42
"Dear John" (Aubrie Gass, Tex Ritter
Tex Ritter
Woodward Maurice Ritter , better known as Tex Ritter, was an American country music singer and movie actor popular from the mid-1930s into the 1960s, and the patriarch of the Ritter family in acting...

) – 2:33
"Just Waitin'" (Bob Gazzaway, Williams) – 2:38
"Men With Broken Hearts" – 3:08
"I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love With You)" – 2:22
"Howlin' at the Moon" – 2:41
"Hey, Good Lookin'" – 2:53
"My Heart Would Know" – 2:24
"The Pale Horse and His Rider" (John Bailes, Irving Staggs) – 2:51
"A Home in Heaven" – 2:28
"Ramblin' Man" – 3:01
"Picture from Life's Other Side" – 2:49
"I've Been Down That Road Before" – 2:53
"I Dreamed About Mama Last Night" (Rose) – 2:58

Disc four

"I'd Still Want You" – 2:57
"(I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle" (Jimmie Davis
Jimmie Davis
James Houston Davis , better known as Jimmie Davis, was a noted singer of both sacred and popular songs who served two nonconsecutive terms as the 47th Governor of Louisiana...

, Williams) – 2:26
"Crazy Heart" (Maurice Murray, Rose) – 2:25
"Half as Much
Half as Much
"Half as Much" is an American pop standard written by Curley Williams in 1951. It was first recorded by country music singer Hank Williams in 1952 and reached #2 on the Billboard Country Singles chart. The same year, Rosemary Clooney recorded a hit version for Top 40 markets and Alma Cogan in the...

" (Curley Williams
Curley Williams
Curley Williams was an American country and western musician and songwriter from Georgia. His best-known song is "Half As Much". He was admitted to the in 1999.-Life & Career:...

) – 2:41
"I'd Still Want You" – 2:34
"Baby, We're Really in Love" – 2:31
"I'm Sorry for You, My Friend" – 2:40
"Honky Tonk Blues" – 2:09
"Let's Turn Back the Years" – 2:21
"Window Shopping" (Marcel Joseph) – 2:30
"Jambalaya (On the Bayou)
Jambalaya (On the Bayou)
"Jambalaya " is the title of a song written and recorded by American country music singer Hank Williams that was first released in July 1952...

" – 2:50
"Settin' the Woods on Fire" (Ed G. Nelson, Rose) – 2:34
"I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive" (Rose, Williams) – 2:24
"You Win Again" – 2:34
"I Won't Be Home No More" – 2:43
"Be Careful of Stones That You Throw" – 2:57
"Please Make up Your Mind" – 2:43
"I Could Never Be Ashamed of You" – 2:42
"Your Cheatin' Heart
Your Cheatin' Heart
"Your Cheatin' Heart" is a song written and recorded by the American country music singer and songwriter Hank Williams in 1952, but released after his death in 1953.. It is often considered one of his greatest songs, and one of the great songs of country music...

" – 2:40
"Kaw-Liga" (Rose, Williams) – 2:31
"Take These Chains from My Heart" (Hy Heath
Hy Heath
Songwriter, composer and author Hy Heath was educated in public schools and then became a comedian in musical comedy, vaudeville, minstrel and burlesque shows. His chief musical collaborators included Johnny Lange and Fred Rose. His most successful composition was 'Mule Train' which earned him an...

, Rose) – 2:35

Disc five

"Happy Rovin' Cowboy" (Bob Nolan
Bob Nolan
Bob Nolan was a Canadian-born American singer, songwriter, and actor. He was a founding member of the Sons of the Pioneers, and composer of numerous Country music and Western music songs, including the standards "Cool Water" and "Tumbling Tumbleweeds." He is generally regarded as one of the...

) – 2:36
"Freight Train Blues" (traditional
Traditional music
Traditional music is the term increasingly used for folk music that is not contemporary folk music. More on this is at the terminology section of the World music article...

) – 1:15
"San Antonio Rose" (Bob Wills
Bob Wills
James Robert Wills , better known as Bob Wills, was an American Western Swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader, considered by music authorities as the co-founder of Western Swing and universally known as the pioneering King of Western Swing.Bob Wills' name will forever be associated with...

) – 2:10
"I'm Not Coming Home Anymore" – 2:51
"I Ain't Gonna Love You Anymore" (Ernest Tubb
Ernest Tubb
Ernest Dale Tubb , nicknamed the Texas Troubadour, was an American singer and songwriter and one of the pioneers of country music. His biggest career hit song, "Walking the Floor Over You" , marked the rise of the honky tonk style of music...

) – 1:28
"Won't You Sometimes Think of Me" – 1:56
"Why Should I Cry" – 1:50
"I Watched My Dream World Crumble Like Clay" – 1:48
"I Told a Lie to My Heart" – 2:18
"Mother Is Gone" – 2:28
"In My Dreams You Still Belong to Me" – 2:20
"We're Getting Closer to the Grave Each Day" – 2:35
"I'm Going Home" – 1:25
"Calling You" – 1:53
"Pan American" – 2:05
"Wealth Won't Save Your Soul" – 2:31
"Honky Tonk Blues" – 2:00
"A Home in Heaven" – 2:03
"You Broke Your Own Heart" – 2:03
"I'm So Tired of It All" – 2:23

Disc six

"You Caused It All by Telling Lies" (Clyde Moody
Clyde Moody
Clyde Moody , also known as the "Hillbilly Waltz King" and sometimes as "The Genial Gentleman of Country Music" was one the great founders of American Bluegrass music....

) – 1:36
"Faded Love and Winter Roses" (Rose) – 1:57
"Please Don't Let Me Love You" (Ralph Jones) – 2:15
"There's No Room in My Heart for the Blues" (Rose, Zeb Turner
Zeb Turner
Zeb Turner was an American boogie-woogie songwriter and guitarist, and pioneer of rockabilly.He was born William Edward Grishaw in Lynchburg, Virginia, United States, and he renamed himself after a favorite piece of music, "The Zeb Turner Stomp"...

) – 2:14
"I Wish I Had a Nickel" (W.S. Barnhart, Tommy Sutton) – 1:42
"The Waltz of the Wind" (Rose) – 2:06
"At the First Fall of Snow" (Rose) – 3:11
"Leave Me Alone With the Blues" (Joe Pope) – 2:16
"I'm Free at Last" (Tubb) – 2:20
"Blue Love (In My Heart)" (Floyd Jenkins) – 2:03
"It Just Don't Matter Now" (Tubb) – 2:26
"Little Paper Boy" (Jim Anglin, Johnnie Wright
Johnnie Wright
Johnnie Robert Wright, Jr. , known professionally as Johnnie Wright, was an American country music singer-songwriter who spent much of his career working with Jack Anglin as the popular duo Johnnie & Jack, and was also the husband of Kitty Wells.-Early life and career:Born in Mount Juliet,...

) – 3:00
"Someday You'll Call My Name" (Jean Branch, [Eddie Hill) – 2:10
"The Battle of Armageddon" (Roy Acuff
Roy Acuff
Roy Claxton Acuff was an American country music singer, fiddler, and promoter. Known as the King of Country Music, Acuff is often credited with moving the genre from its early string band and "hoedown" format to the star singer-based format that helped make it internationally successful.Acuff...

, Odell McLeod) – 2:27
"No One Will Ever Know" (Mel Foree, Rose) – 2:16
"With Tears in My Eyes" (Paul Howard) – 2:12
"Thank God" (Rose) – 2:16
"Rock My Cradle Once Again" (Johnny Bond
Johnny Bond
Cyrus Whitfield Bond , known professionally as Johnny Bond, was a popular American country music entertainer of the 1940s through the 1960s.-Biography:...

, Billy Folger) – 3:02
"Don't Do It, Darling" (Zeke Manners) – 1:51

Disc seven

"Rockin' Chair Money" (Bill Carlisle, Lonnie Glosson) – 2:05
"Cool Water" (Bob Nolan
Bob Nolan
Bob Nolan was a Canadian-born American singer, songwriter, and actor. He was a founding member of the Sons of the Pioneers, and composer of numerous Country music and Western music songs, including the standards "Cool Water" and "Tumbling Tumbleweeds." He is generally regarded as one of the...

) – 3:43
"Tennessee Border" (Jimmy Work) – 1:52
"First Year Blues" (Tubb) – 2:24
"My Main Trial Is Yet to Come" (J.L. Frank, Pee Wee King
Pee Wee King
Julius Frank Anthony Kuczynski , known professionally as Pee Wee King, was an American country music songwriter and recording artist best known for co-writing "The Tennessee Waltz"....

) – 1:56
"Wait for the Light to Shine" (Rose) – 2:40
"We Live in Two Different Worlds" (Rose) – 1:57
"Roly Poly" (Rose) – 2:00
"Swing Wide Your Gate of Love" (Hank Thompson
Hank Thompson (music)
Henry William Thompson , known professionally as Hank Thompson, was an American country music entertainer whose career spanned seven decades...

) – 2:21
"Dixie Cannonball" (Gene Autry
Gene Autry
Orvon Grover Autry , better known as Gene Autry, was an American performer who gained fame as The Singing Cowboy on the radio, in movies and on television for more than three decades beginning in the 1930s...

, Red Foley
Red Foley
Clyde Julian Foley , better known as Red Foley, was an American singer, musician, and radio and TV personality who made a major contribution to the growth of country music after World War II....

, Johnnie Horton) – 2:22
"Sundown and Sorrow" (Frank, King) – 1:21
"The Devil's Train" (Cliff Carlisle, Mel Foree) – 2:58
"The Old Home" (Jackie Earls) – 2:41
"Alone and Forsaken" – 1:59
"Heaven Holds All My Treasures" – 2:37
"Lost on the River" – 2:17
"A House of Gold" – 2:14
"Singing Waterfall" – 2:11
"Dear Brother" – 2:27
"'Neath a Cold Gray Tomb of Stone" (Foree, Williams) – 2:41
"Time Has Proven I Was Wrong" (Foree, Curley Williams, Williams) – 1:13
"No, Not Now" (Foree, C. Williams, Williams) – 2:09
"When You're Tired of Breaking Others Hearts" (C. Williams, Williams) – 1:08
"Honey Do You Love Me, Huh?" (C. Williams, Williams) – 1:15

Disc eight

"California Zephyr" – 1:56
"Your Cheatin' Heart" – 2:33
"You Better Keep It on Your Mind" (Vic McAlpin, Williams) – 2:23
"How Can You Refuse Him Now?" – 2:34
"Low Down Blues" – 1:20
"Ten Little Numbers" (Acuff) – 1:16
"Thy Burdens Are Greater Than Mine" (King, Redd Stewart) – 3:28
"Last Night I Dreamed of Heaven" – 1:20
"I Ain't Got Nothin' But Time" – 2:40
"Message to My Mother" – 4:04
"Fool About You" (Ralph C. Hutchinson) – 1:24
"I'm Going Home" – 1:51
"Jambalaya (On the Bayou)" – 1:51
"Ready to Go Home" – 1:45
"Kaw-Liga" (Rose, Williams) – 2:38
"I Could Never Be Ashamed of You" – 2:17
"Angel of Death" – 2:20
"All the Love I Ever Had" – 1:46
"We're Getting Closer to the Grave Each Day" – 2:06
"The Log Train" – 2:21
"How to Write Folk & Western Music to Sell" – 1:54

Disc nine

"There's a Tear in My Beer" – 2:46
"The Alabama Waltz" – 1:05
"Jesus Died for Me" – 2:26
"A Teardrop on a Rose" – 2:27
"Jesus Is Calling" (Charlie Monroe, Williams) – 1:36
"Wearing Out Your Walkin' Shoes" – 1:35
"When the Book of Life Is Read" – 1:24
"There's Nothing as Sweet as My Baby" – 1:59
"(I'm Gonna) Sing, Sing, Sing" – 1:48
"I Can't Escape from You" – 2:15
"Weary Blues from Waitin'" – 2:26
"Are You Walkin' and Talkin' for the Lord" – 2:42
"If You'll Be a Baby to Me" – 0:56
"'Neath a Cold Gray Tomb of Stone" (Foree, Williams) – 2:50
"Lost Highway" Leon Payne
Leon Payne
Leon Payne , "the Blind Balladeer", was a country music singer and songwriter.-Life:Leon Roger Payne was born in Alba, Texas on June 15, 1917. He was blind in one eye at birth, and lost the sight of the other eye in early childhood. He attended the Texas School for the Blind from 1924 to 1935,...

) – 4:03
"I'm a Long Gone Daddy" – 5:40
"Long Gone Lonesome Blues" – 3:26
"Help Me Understand" – 6:18
"When God Dips His Love in My Heart" (Cleavant Derricks
Cleavant Derricks (songwriter)
Reverend Cleavant Derricks was a pastor and choir director at a number of black Baptist churches....

) – 2:23
"They'll Never Take Her Love from Me" (Payne) – 4:33
"Are You Walkin' and Talkin' for the Lord" – 2:15
"Honky Tonkin'" – 2:13
"I Cried Again" (Autry Inman) – 3:11
"The Wild Side of Life" (Arlie Carter, William Warren) – 2:55
"Something Got a Hold of Me" (A.P. Carter) – 2:29
"Drifting Too Far from the Shore" (Charles E. Moody
Charles E. Moody
Charles Ernest Moody was a gospel songwriter from Gordon County, Georgia, United States. He was a member of the string band The Georgia Yellow Hammers from Calhoun, Georgia which included members Bill Chitwood, Bud Landress, and Phill Reeves...

) – 3:13

Disc ten

"Lovesick Blues" (Friend, Mills) – 3:11
"Move It on Over" – 2:52
"You're Gonna Change (Or I'm Gonna Leave)" – 2:45
"I Just Don't Like This Kind of Livin'" – 3:26
"Talk With Minnie Pearl" – 2:56
"They'll Never Take Her Love from Me" (Payne) – 1:34
"Long Gone Lonesome Blues" – 3:31
"Why Don't You Love Me (Like You Used to Do)?" – 1:43
"Talk With Minnie Pearl" – 3:37
"Moanin' the Blues" – 3:19
"Nobody's Lonesome for Me" – 2:30
"Dear John" (Gass, Ritter) – 2:08
"Hey, Good Lookin'" – 2:46
"Honky Tonk Blues" – Williams
"Let the Spirit Descend" (traditional) – 2:05
"Cold, Cold Heart" – 2:31
"Baby, We're Really in Love" – 1:36
"The Old Country Church" (John Whitfield Vaughn) – 2:35
"A Tramp on the Street" (Grady Cole, Hazel Cole) – 3:48
"I'll Have a New Body (I'll Have a New Life)" (traditional) – 2:25
"I Want to Live and Love" (Gene Sullivan, Wiley Walker) – 2:25
"Where the Soul of Man Never Dies" (William Lee Golden
William Lee Golden
William Lee Golden , a native of Brewton, Alabama, is an American country music singer. Between 1965 and 1987, and again from 1995 onward, he has been the baritone singer in the country music group The Oak Ridge Boys.-Personal life:...

, Wayne Raney) – 1:47
"The Prodigal Son" (Floyd Jenkins) – 2:57
"I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love With You)" – 1:57
"The Apology #2" – 2:49

Performance

Anita Carter
Anita Carter
Ina Anita Carter , the youngest daughter of Ezra and Mother Maybelle Carter, was a versatile American singer who experimented with several different types of music and played stand-up bass with her sisters Helen Carter and June Carter Cash as The Carter Sisters...

– performer
Grant Turner – performer
Kitty Wells
Kitty Wells
Ellen Muriel Deason , known professionally as Kitty Wells, is an American country music singer. Her 1952 hit recording, "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels", made her the first female country singer to top the U.S. country charts, and turned her into the first female country star...

– performer
Audrey Williams
Audrey Williams
Audrey Mae Sheppard , better known as Audrey Williams, was an American musician and the first wife of country music icon Hank Williams, mother of Hank Williams, Jr...

– performer
Hank Williams – guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

, vocals
Singing
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
Johnnie Wright
Johnnie Wright
Johnnie Robert Wright, Jr. , known professionally as Johnnie Wright, was an American country music singer-songwriter who spent much of his career working with Jack Anglin as the popular duo Johnnie & Jack, and was also the husband of Kitty Wells.-Early life and career:Born in Mount Juliet,...

– performer

Production

Charlie Adams – photographer
Photography
Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
Craig Allen – design
Graphic design
Graphic design is a creative process – most often involving a client and a designer and usually completed in conjunction with producers of form – undertaken in order to convey a specific message to a targeted audience...
Daniel Cooper – liner notes
Liner notes
Liner notes are the writings found in booklets which come inserted into the compact disc jewel case or the equivalent packaging for vinyl records and cassettes.-Origin:...
Don Daily – photography
Colin Escott – producer
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...

, liner notes, photography
Kira Florita – producer, editing, project coordinator
Jerry Joyner – design
Jim Kemp – art direction
Art director
The art director is a person who supervise the creative process of a design.The term 'art director' is a blanket title for a variety of similar job functions in advertising, publishing, film and television, the Internet, and video games....
Griffin Norman – photography
Joseph M. Palmaccio
Joseph M. Palmaccio
Joseph M. Palmaccio is an American mastering engineer born in rural South Carolina.Palmaccio has been nominated for five Grammy Awards and has won 3 in the Best Historical Album category for mastering...

– mastering engineer
Audio mastering
Mastering, a form of audio post-production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device ; the source from which all copies will be produced...
Fred Rose
Fred Rose (musician)
Fred Rose was an American Hall of Fame songwriter and music publishing executive.-Biography:Born in Evansville, Indiana, Fred Rose started playing piano and singing as a small boy. In his teens, he moved to Chicago, Illinois where he worked in bars busking for tips, and finally vaudeville...

– producer
Tom "Curly" Ruff – mastering engineer
Billy Smith – photography
Alan Stoker – restoration
Marty Stuart
Marty Stuart
John Martin "Marty" Stuart is an American country music singer-songwriter, known for both his traditional style, and eclectic merging of rockabilly, honky tonk, and traditional country music...

– photography
Virginia Team – art direction
Richard Weize – photography
Jett Williams
Jett Williams
Jett Williams is an American country music performer.Jett is the daughter of country music icon Hank Williams, Sr. and Bobbie Jett, whose brief relationship with Hank Williams occurred between his two marriages. She is a posthumous child; her birth in Montgomery, Alabama occurred five days after...

– photography
Kyle Young – compilation producer

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