The Complete Hank Williams (1998)

About this title: Between 1986 and 1987, Mercury launched its first effort to chronicle Hank Williams' complete recorded works, releasing a series of eight double albums/single CDs which were later collected as a box set. Both the individual compilations and the box set were pulled from the market in the '90s, clearing the way for The Complete Hank Williams, a ten-disc box set which purported to contain all of Williams' recordings. Mercury, however, played it a little loose with their terms, deciding that "complete" covers the studio recordings, demos, and selected live performances, leaving overdubbed tracks ... read more

Tracks:

1. Calling You [Williams]
2. Never Again (Will I Knock on Your Door) [Williams]
3. Wealth Won't Save Your Soul [Williams]
4. When God Comes and Gathers His Jewels [Williams]
5. I Don't Care (If Tomorrow Never Comes) [Williams]
6. My Love for You (Has Turned to Hate) [Williams]
7. Honky Tonkin' [Williams]
8. Pan American [Williams]
9. Move It on Over [Williams]
10. I Saw the Light [Williams]
11. (Last Night) I Heard You Crying in Your Sleep [Williams]
12. Six More Miles (To the Graveyard) [Williams]
13. Fly Trouble [Wilds/Biggs/Rose]
14. I'm Satisfied With You [Rose]
15. On the Banks of the Old Pontchartrain [Williams/Vincent]
16. Rootie Tootie [Rose]
17. I Can't Get You off of My Mind [Williams]
18. I'm a Long Gone Daddy [Williams]
19. Honky Tonkin' [Williams]
20. My Sweet Love Ain't Around [Williams]
21. The Blues Come Around [Williams]
22. A Mansion on the Hill [Williams/Rose]
23. I'll Be a Bachelor 'Til I Die [Williams]
24. There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight [Williams]
25. Lovesick Blues [Friend/Mills]
26. Lost on the River [Williams]
27. I Heard My Mother Praying for Me [Williams/Williams]
28. Lost Highway [Payne]
29. May You Never Be Alone [Williams]
30. Dear Brother [Williams]
31. Jesus Remembered Me [Williams]
32. Honky Tonk Blues [Williams]
33. Mind Your Own Business [Williams]
34. You're Gonna Change (Or I'm Gonna Leave) [Williams]
35. My Son Calls Another Man Daddy [Williams]
36. Wedding Bells [Boone]
37. I've Just Told Mama Goodbye [Sweet/Kinsey]
38. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry [Williams]
39. A House Without Love [Williams]
40. I Just Don't Like This Kind of Livin' [Williams]
41. My Bucket's Got a Hole in It [Williams]
42. Long Gone Lonesome Blues [Williams]
43. Why Don't You Love Me (Like You Used to Do)? [Williams]
44. Why Should We Try Anymore [Williams]
45. My Son Calls Another Man Daddy [Williams]
46. Too Many Parties and Too Many Pals [Rose/Dixon/Henderso]
47. Beyond the Sunset [Brock/Brock/Kennedy]
48. The Funeral [Williams]
49. Everything's Okay [Williams]
50. They'll Never Take Her Love from Me [Payne]
51. Nobody's Lonesome for Me [Williams]
52. Moanin' the Blues [Williams]
53. Help Me Understand [Williams]
54. No, No Joe [Rose]
55. Cold, Cold Heart [Williams]
56. Dear John [Gass/Ritter]
57. Just Waitin' [Gazzaway/Williams]
58. Men With Broken Hearts [Williams]
59. Howlin' at the Moon [Williams]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.