Music Capsule Review

HANK WILLIAMS

Live at the Grand Ole Opry (Mercury Nashville)

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Credits

Lead Performance: Hank Williams; Genre: Country/Bluegrass

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By Alanna Nash

In his prime, Williams was a god in the South. Even more, ''he was welcome at our table, that dead man, because he was us,'' Rick Bragg proclaims in his liner notes for this two-CD set, culled from the singer's Opry appearances (1949-52). You hear that, not only in his jaunty performances -- but also in the audience's spontaneous, wild applause. This is Hank as his original fans knew him. A-

Posted Nov 12, 1999

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