Hank Williams, Sr.

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Hank Williams is to a country music fan as Breath is to Life. Essential!

Colin Escott has written the definitive biography of Hank that every country music fan or someone just looking for what defined country music to future generations of fans should definitely read.



- Long considered the last word on Hank Williams, this biography has remained continuously in print since its first publication in 1994.- This new edition has been completely updated and includes many previously unpublished photographs, as well as a complete catalog detailing all the songs Hank Williams ever wrote, even those he never recorded.- Colin Escott is codirector and cowriter of the forth-coming two-hour PBS/BBC television documentary on Hank Williams, set to broadcast in spring 2004, and coauthor of "Hank Williams: Snapshots from the Lost Highway.- HANK WILLIAMS was the third-prize winner of the prestigious Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award.

[dadfad]

I'm not necessarily the biggest country-music fan, but I am a Hank Williams fan.

Being more of a solo-guy than a band-guy for awhile now, I've collected quite a few Hank-tunes over the years that friends have sent me knowing I like his solo acoustic stuff where it's just him with a guitar. Stuff that was actually released, or just happened to get recorded somehow between band-takes, warm-ups, or whatever. No fancy guitar work, but the feeling in his vocals...

One I like in particular is him covering an old Pee Wee King tune "Thy Burdens are Greater Than Mine." It's out of my "normal genre" so to speak, but it's a great tune and I do it myself sometimes. (Or try anyway. Of course nothing like Hank did. Not even Pee Wee could do it as well as Hank.)

And another scrap of recording I have of just Hank and his guitar doing about thirty seconds worth of "I Can't Help It If I'm Still In Love With You." The feeling just drips out of it.

Hank with his band was great. Hank by himself...

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Feb 15, 2013 12:41:08 GMT -5 dadfad said:

I'm not necessarily the biggest country-music fan, but I am a Hank Williams fan.

Hank with his band was great. Hank by himself...

Every now and then someone comes along to redefine a bit of music. Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Yeah, Elvis, Muddy Waters....just to name a few.

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[JamesP]

When I was a teen-ager, I would take my guitar on Saturday night to a small country store about 5 miles from my home and sit on the porch and play and sing. Next door was a Pentacostal church-home where they held a Saturday night meeting. One night, a member of the church ask me to play at their service. I sang Hank Williams "I Saw The Light" and I'll always remember this elderly woman who was sitting down front in a wheel-chair. As I sang the lyrics, she actually got up and danced.

[JamesP]

In memory of his birth September 17, 1923

[JamesP]

Rest in peace Hank Williams. On this date 64 years ago, the world lost the greatest songster whose music reflects on the blues many of us still feel today.