I don't know how this album eluded me for this long. I found out about this from a Hank Williams documentary I watched, and it's interesting how all his band mates, personal friends and lovers all say that this is the REAL Hank Williams. Apparently he was extremely disillusioned by his fame and didn't see it fit that they turned him into such a commodity or product. This is what he wanted to tell us, the first track opening up with a speech to a courtroom by a father of a convicted prostitute warning the audience of the ills of judgment. One of the songs is about the sorrow and sadness of divorce, not only emotional but slightly philosophical. Another addressed to Joseph Stalin, warning him of being an evil man. Each song has reverend-like sermons by Hank where he professes some pretty real and heartbreaking material. It's poetic, it's reverent, it's philosophical, it's loving, it's moral, and it's sad. Most of all it's extremely insightful.
Jukebox owners wouldn't buy it under the name Hank Williams because it was so strange at the time, and it still is so he was convinced by Fred Rose, the great country music publisher, to create the pseudonym Luke the Drifter, which is also the name of the record. If you like Hank Williams or country music, you have to hear this.
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