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Article: Two-CD `Hank Williams: The Ultimate Collection' Lives Up to Its Name and the Legend of the Country Music Great.
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- June 21, 2002
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Entertainment Editors & Music/Retail Writers
LOS ANGELES--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--June 21, 2002
Hank Williams is the king of country music, perhaps of American music. A superstar by the age of 25, his turbulent life ended at 29. But he left behind a legend that lives on and a classic American songbook covered by everyone from Elvis, Fats Domino and Johnny Cash to Ray Charles and Willie Nelson.
The two-CD set "Hank Williams: The Ultimate Collection" (Mercury/UTV Records, a division of UME), released July 23, 2002, gets a jump on next year's tributes for the 50th anniversary of his death by bringing together 42 tracks from 1947 to 1952, from #1 hits ...