Pictures from life's other side : the man and his music in rare photos and recordings

"Hank Williams' Pictures from Life's Other Side isn't your ordinary box set. The collection from BMG is essentially a big, handsome coffee table book with six CDs as musical accompaniment. But when the subject is Hank Williams, the music can't be an afterthought - and it certainly isn't here ... Thanks both to the casual, revealing nature of the radio broadcasts and the candid photography, it paints a powerful picture of a talent who died too young but has never really left us, after all".

"... Pictures From Life's Other Side - The Man and His Music in Rare Photos and Recordings challenges any kneejerk impressions of what this man might be like by collecting six CDs of recordings he and his band The Drifting Cowboys made for radio broadcast in 1951. What's heard reveals brighter sides of this man ... Perplexing textual omissions aside, this is a wonderful release and worth endlessly digging into. Not least for the reason that it challenges perceptions of who Hank Williams was".

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