Various Artists-Timeless (2001)


 

Artist: Various Artists (Bob Dylan, Sheryl Crow, Keb Mo', Beck, Mark Knopfler, Emmylou Harris, Tom Petty, Keith Richards, Hank III, Ryan Adams, Lucinda Williams, Johnny Cash)

Title: Timeless

Label: Lost Highway

Format: CD

Cat: 088 170 239-2

Year of Release:2001

Country and Year of Edition: US 2001 digipak

Sell Price: $3.49 VG+/VG+ 2/25/23

Discogs Last Sold: 12/23/22 $3.08

Low:$1.00

Median: $3.12

Average: $4.51

High: $20.00

Current low price: $1.50

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 42

Have/Want: 348/14

Where Sold: Morrison, IL

Time it took to sell:  11 years

Where and When Purchased: internet

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+

Sad To See It Go: No

I'm not the worlds biggest fan of tribute albums.  Sometimes there are good ones of obscure acts doing deep numbers, like the Imaginary label rattled off in the 80's.  This is not that.  Lost Highway, a then fledgling imprint using a Hank song title, was Universal's consolidated Americana label with a capital A.  Americana being the way to cleave off Nashville's version of mainstream Country the way Alternative Rock cleaved off AOR, except on the other side of the career arc.  Some of the artists here were on the label roster, some weren't.   

This cast is pretty much an A-list of anyone you'd want to be on a Hank Williams tribute album circa 2001 including Johnny Cash and Hank's grandson.  I bought it for Dylan, but his cover wasn't the one that stuck, even though he opened the album.

For me, that goes to Lucinda Williams' "Cold Cold Heart."  It's near impossible to better the originals, but she managed to make this warhorse her own.  Everyone else is what you'd expect them to be: reverent in their own uninterrupted style.  

Bob was in perhaps the peak of his post-Time Out Of Mind  "comeback" and while Campbell and Garnier are on this, Bob, not Charlie Sexton, handles guitar on "I Can't Get You Off My Mind."  There are also a couple session guys, Shawn Pelton from Saturday Night Live on Drums and Levon Helms accordion player Brian Mitchell.   Bob doesn't nail the song like he did "Train of Love" on the Johnny Cash tribute around the same time, but it is Bob doing Hank.  Cash gets the final word here with "I Dreamed About Mama Last Night."  He passed only a couple years after this came out, which give this reflective number a bit more resonance.

The stars came out: Tom Petty, Keith Richards, Emmylou Harris and Mark Knopfler trading off head of the bill on two songs.  The boy does "I'm A Long Gone Daddy."  It's all excellent and still you might as well just break out some Hank Williams.

Hank Jr. should be on here.

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