American Legends: Best Of The Early Years [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]

Hank Williams Jr.

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 1, 1995)
• Original Release Date: July 25, 1995
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Umvd Special Markets
• ASIN: B0000047JI
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #252,926 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you like Hank you need to listen to this!, February 15, 2003

By	Rock n' Roll Cowboy (Colorado, USA) - See all my reviews

I just got this CD and it's great! Hank Jr.'s older stuff is even better than his new stuff though I love it all. This album reminds me a lot "Hank Williams Jr and Friends" from 1975. In fact Living Proof is on both. I think this stuff is a little bit older maybe late 60's early 70's. The best tracks are "Cajun Baby" "Standing In the Shadows" "Hank" and "I'd Rather Be Gone" and don't forget "Living Proof" I you like tradional country, like the kind from the good ol days I'd reccomend this CD. Lot's of steel and Hank's voice is so strong! Check out Hank Jr. and Friends too, before the record companies decide to take these great albums off the shelves and they become out of print!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Its A great album one of my favorites by Hank Jr, January 6, 2003

By A Customer

...Hank Williams Jr is a legend and the song ...called Standing in the Shadows [is] a good song. ... Hank Williams Sr would be proud of his son. You will get your money's worth when you buy this cd its when Jr was young before the beard and before he fell off a 500ft cliff. again this is a great cd. ...

2 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Platitudinous hogwash shamelessly trading on father's name, July 15, 2002

By	Mr. O. Buxton "Olly Buxton" (Highgate, UK) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Now, I am no great expert of Country & Western music, but I know what I like - and equally, I know horse manure when I hear it.

This, make no mistake, is horse manure. Everything corny, hayseed-esque, bumpkinious and brainless - everything which gives this venerable strain in the tradition of honest working class folk music its un-deserved place as the butt of the town sophisticate's jokes - is bundled up right here in this thoroughly horrible collection.

Lest you should make the same mistake I did, BE WARNED: the creator of this record is NOT the late, inestimably great, Hank Williams Senior. He sure wishes he was (he doesn't so much admit it as labour the point) but he's not. This is the dumb-arsed SON of an American Legend. An American Legend himself, he most surely ain't. NO SIR-EEEE.

The cheek of Polygram to market this title under the title "American Legend" is astounding; only matched by the gall, horror, and humiliation I experienced when I discovered I'd been conned into buying it so easily.

How bad is it? This bad:

For musical accompaniment, imagine the hyper-cliched cowboy ridin' along after a hard day's lassoin', lookin' forward to his grits by the campfire, clippety clop sort of beat (like a poor imitation of Hank Williams Sr, really), while a rich, cowpoke barritone intones these words:

"As I travel around from town to town
I have a lot of Dad's fans and friends come around
They say, 'I know Hank would be proud of you, if he was here today,
That you're carrying on his music this way
Yes, they say Hank was the all time great
And we know that you'll just be as good as your Dad',
But i just smile and say,
'There'll never be another Hank Williams, friends,'
And that's the part that makes them sad."

Pass me a bucket.