2000: The Year In Music

Hank Williams
Alone With His Guitar
Mercury

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As Hank's voice drips into the cracks between those three familiar chords, you realize you're hearing anew a twang so cemented within the public domain you'd always taken it for granted. What draws your attention to his vocal style, perhaps for the first time in years, isn't that there are no drums to distract you from the melody, but that there are no classics to distract you from the performances. Essential. (Harris)