Live at the Grand Ole Opry [1999] (1999)

About this title: This two-disc set brings together every extant performance from Hank Williams' brief hookup with the Opry. The first disc collects 21 performances, both musical and in the company of Opry comedy regulars Minnie Pearl and Rod Brasfield. To give a sense of how his presence worked in the format of the show, the second disc is a complete Opry broadcast from 1950 with Williams as part of the cast that also features Red Foley, Wally Fowler and the Oak Ridge Quartet (forerunners of today's Oak Ridge Boys), Minnie Pearl, Claude Sharpe and the Old Hickory Singers, and blackface comedians Jamup and ... read more

Tracks:

1. Lovesick Blues [Friend/Mills]
2. Wedding Bells [Boone]
3. You're Gonna Change (Or I'm Gonna Leave) [Williams]
4. Why Don't You Love Me (Like You Used to Do)? [Williams]
5. Comedy With Hank Williams/Red Foley/Minnie Pearl
6. They'll Never Take Her Love from Me [Payne]
7. Moanin' the Blues [Williams]
8. Nobody's Lonesome for Me [Williams]
9. Dear John [Gass/Ritter]
10. Cold, Cold Heart [Williams]
11. Hey, Good Lookin' [Williams]
12. Honky Tonk Blues [Williams]
13. Let the Spirit Descend [Traditional]
14. Baby, We're Really in Love [Williams]
15. Comedy With Hank Williams/Rod Brasfield
16. The Old Country Church [Stevenson]
17. I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love With You) [Williams]
18. Jambalaya (On the Bayou) [Williams]
19. Half as Much [Williams]
20. Window Shopping [Joseph]
21. Long Gone Lonesome Blues [Williams]
22. Aunt Jemima's Plaster
23. Lead Me to That Rock
24. I Just Don't Like This Kind of Livin' [Williams]
25. Comedy With Minnie Pearl
26. Lord, I'm Coming Home [Traditional]
27. Oh, You Beautiful Doll [Sharpe]
28. Comedy With Jamup & Honey
29. Lovesick Blues [Friend/Mills]
30. You Ain't Got Faith
31. Church Music

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