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Post by leeophonic on Jan 1, 2023 16:21:01 GMT
Not really a celebration but a tip of the hat to someone who plays a significant part in music and the development of the songs that a lot of us all enjoy. Personally I was brought up on a subliminal diet of Hank Williams songs and before you know it one generation has handed on the baton to the other.
Hank did not write all of his songs but with the Rose/Acuff songwriting partnership and the steel guitar of Don Helms it was something to behold, although will not credit Audreys musical contribution which is akin to that of a Yoko....
Regards & Happy New year
Lee
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Post by Michael Messer on Jan 1, 2023 17:41:08 GMT
 Hank Williams was indeed an incredible artist, a genius and has to be up there as one of the greatest songwriters ever. I have spent time in Nashville around some of the people that knew and worked with Hank, including Roy Acuff. Everyone that did know Hank Williams had a story to tell, which usually included some hell raising! Hank was rock & roller before the term was even thought of. I remember meeting, I think it was Minnie Pearl, at the Ryman in the 70s and she told me that she was there the night Hank Williams rode a horse into the Ryman (Grand Ole Opry) was duly banned from the Opry for such behaviour! Roy Acuff was an amazing man and was the king of Nashville. He held court there, first at the Ryman and then at Opryland, every Saturday night until he died. I never met Fred Rose as he had died long before in 1954. Like all artists and writers, not everything is totally original and one that springs to mind is the masterpiece "Lovesick Blues" which was in fact written in 1922 by Cliff Friend & Irving Mills and recorded by blackface artist, Emmet Miller. This recording is somewhat hard to listen to with today's ears and rightly so with its insulting carnival-style impersonations of African Americans. However, it was the original of a song that became a massive hit for Hank Williams This is a beautiful song... ...and these I could post a hundred Hank Williams songs on here and wax lyrical about each one. Our world is a richer place because Hank Williams was here for thirty years. His songs are still as young and fresh as the day he recorded them. Shine On Michael |
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Post by leeophonic on Jan 1, 2023 23:23:45 GMT
Thanks Michael for adding flesh to the skeleton.
I am just reminded as I listen to Lovesick Blues it was the tune played for my Dad as he left the church en route to the cemetary, moving joyful and sad as music often evokes memories for us all
Lee
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Post by zero on Jan 2, 2023 2:07:09 GMT
Some good live audio,I Just Don't like This Kind of Livin' / Lovesick Blues. Hank Williams Feb 18 1950
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