The Hank Williams Songbook :: Education by Design Store

Editorial Review
This fantastic collection of 26 classics by the great Hank Williams features easy-to-intermediate fingerpicking and flatpicking arrangements in notes and tab. Includes: Cold, Cold Heart Hey, Good Lookin' Honky Tonkin' I Saw the Light I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry Jambalaya (On the Bayou) Long Gone Lonesome Blues Mansion on the Hill There's a Tear in My Beer You Win Again Your Cheatin' Heart and more. Also includes an introduction by Fred Sokolow and notes about each song.
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Customer Reviews

Very basic guitar arrangements

2006-02-05
It is a nice book to have if you are a Hank Willams fan like me. The flat & finger picking arrangemnts are very basic and simple. It is easy to follow and great for beginners.

If you are a more accomplished guitar player and are looking for a book that helps you to play exactly like Hank or sound like Hank William's band, you may be a little disappointed.

I wish Sokolow could show us the exact chords Hank used and included guitar fill-ins and breaks by Hank's band to give us the flavor of Hank William's original recording. Hopefully someday Fred or someone else will do this for us.

Good intro to flatpicking

2004-03-12
I have not been playing guitar for very long and I am a huge Hank Williams fan. I learned the chords to his songs but the solos were beyond me to figure out. This book (Although not entirely accurate) helped me learn the basics of flatpicking while making the songs sound recognizable. It is a very good beginner flatpicking and fingerpicking book (I havn't done any of the fingerpicking but I'm sure its good). For the more experienced guitarist, it gives a great starting point for you to embellish upon.

The Tab written in this book I have found to be usefull during the solo portions of the song. I play the Chords while singing and during the instrumentals I flatpick from the book and this works very well.

I like how Sokolow gets you playing right away with all the classic Hank Williams songs.

Hank Williams Songbook 2003-06-25
This book of songs by hank williams is nicely done and would make excellent material for those learning flat picking and finger picking. The music is very well laid out in both music notion and tabs for both styles for each song. The finger picking tabs are very clear and well done. If you are looking for a Hank Williams song book where you want to sing and stumm the songs, then put in instumental breaks in between verses, this book is for you. The words are all there with the music. This is a really nice book, I have been playing Hank Williams stuff for twenty years and think this is a nice book.

*****WARNING*****NOT ACCURATE***** 2003-01-09
This tab book is not accurate to the original recordings. If you're wanting to own Hank Williams material in its original form, you'll be very disappointed with this book. It's even basic for beginners. Would not recommend to anyone.