Country Music Legend Hank Williams' Radio Show Recordings To Be Released At Last

Nashville, TN (CNS) - Country music icon Hank Willams' radio performances are finally going to be released after years of legal battling between the late legend's family and the music publishers.

His "Mother's Best" radio programs will be released this fall, after a deal with the Time Life group by his children, Jett and Hank Williams Jr.

Williams, who died in 1953 at the age of 29, made the 143 previously unreleased recordings in 1951 for his radio show on WSM-AM. The shows were salvaged by a WSM employee, who attempted to sell the recordings upon realizing what they were.

CMT reports that after eight years of legal battle to establish sole ownership of the tapes, his children won over the rights to sell his old recordings made for the radio station. His "Mother's Best" shows will be released periodically over the next three years.

The recordings include songs he never known to have performed and others he never recorded commercially.

Daughter Jett has been quoted by the website as saying, "These recordings were my vehicles to get to really know the father I never met. Everyone will get to know the man and his musical genius as never before."