Hank Williams - " My Bucket's Got a Hole in It " (1949) and " Dear John " (1950) from 40 Greatest Hits (1978) After Jordy's post on the Flying Burrito Brothers a month or so back , I've decided to try to get into country music. You'd think that living in the South would help, but people just want to talk about Radiohead. Oh well. Hank sang soulful tunes with such perfect vocal control. Every little crack in his voice-and there aren't many-means something huge. Plus those lyrics can't be beat. [...]
The waltz is magnificently improper -- the art of tone turned lubricious. There is something about a waltz that is irresistible. Try it on the fattest and sedatest or even on the thinnest and most acidulous of women, and she will be ready, in ten minutes, for a stealthy smack behind the door -- nay, she will forthwith impart the embarrassing news that her husband misunderstands her and drinks too much and is going to Cleveland, O. on a business trip tomorrow. H.L. Mencken, 1919. Sorry for the [...]
Hard Times - Boz Scaggs Cold, Cold Heart - Hank Williams How Beautiful You Are - The Cure I'm A King Bee - Muddy Waters Blazing Arrow - Blackalicious Doggin' Around - Jackie Wilson Lovers By Rote - Jules & [...]
I'll do you a deal - a couple each for V and W cos I'm buggered if I can think of anything to post for X - thankfully my 4AD obsession never got as far as Clan Of Xymox. Violent Femmes - Add It Up [demo] Back in the mid-to-late 1980s we used to go to Nottingham's Selectadisc record shop at least once a week and spend hours and pounds browsing and buying music. On the wall of the shop people would pin 'band-members-wanted'-type notices. They would invariably need [...]
* Hank Williams : Theme Song (2.0 mb) | Tennessee Border (7.5 mb) | Blue Bonned Rag (instrumental) (2.5 mb) | Dear Brother (6.0 mb) | Whistlin' Rufus (instrumental) (4.0 mb) | Theme Song (2.5 mb) | Pictures From Life's Other Side (12.0 mb) | Sally Goodin' (instrumental) (3.0 mb) | (I'm Gonna) Sing, Sing, Sing (8.0 mb) From The Complete Mother's Best Transcriptions : Vol 07 & Vol 08 [...]
* Hank Williams : Theme Song (1.5 mb) | Next Sunday Darling Is My Birthday (7.5 mb) | Old Joe Clark (instrumental) (2.5 mb) | Deck Of Cards (9.5 mb) From The Complete Mother's Best Transcriptions : Vol 07 I realized that it's been awhile since we've been blessed with the sounds of Hank Williams, so, I've decided to post another installation of the Mother's Best shows (look here ). These were performed by Hank Williams every [...]
Some people think country music is lame. And if they're talking about the Nashville / CMT machine churning out overly marketed and watered down disposable country pop albums with shiny faced blondes, or tight tee wearin' muscle men with stetsons, on the cover, then we would have to agree. Granted, sometimes there's a decent number or two on these quick fixes, but the short of it is this: if the music doesn't come from a special place, then it doesn't deserve that special place in your heart, or in your record collection. Well, over here at the Rising [...]
Buddy's nascent pyromaniac tendencies were later put to use by the army, where he spent much of 1969 with the Americal Division, torching villages suspected of harboring communist insurgents. Hank Williams - Hey, Good Lookin' (from 24 Greatest Hits , 1970) - I'll always associate this song with the late Gus Saunders's Yankee Kitchen radio show, which used a trippy Tijuana Brass-style instrumental version of the song as the show's theme. Dance Hall Crashers - Skinhead BBQ (from The Old Record: [...]
I can clearly remember the first time I heard Hank Williams. I was probably 9 or 10 and in my father's car listening to WIL in St. Louis. Country Radio was still listenable in those days. It was the mid-70's. In between Donna Fargo and Glen Campbell, they played an oldie. I think it was "Why Don't You Love Me" or maybe "Your Cheatin' Heart." Anyway, it was so real and so great, I was transfixed. I stored that information away, and five or six years later bought Hank's 40 Greatest Hits and that was what I knew of him [...]
* Hank Williams : Theme Song (2.5 mb) | May You Never Be Alone (9.5 mb) | Arkansas Traveller (4.0 mb) | I'll Have A New Body (I'll Have A New Life) (7.0 mb) From The Complete Mother's Best Transcriptions : Vol 07 So, we get the opportunity to continue on with the series of Mother’s Best radio transcriptions by Hank Williams (look here , here and here ). Back in 1950 Hank Williams was [...]
Here's a stereo MP3 (984 KB) of all eight Hank Williams intros from the Health & Happiness Show layered on top of each other and panned left and right.
Lovesick blues est une chanson formidable immortalisée par ce grand camé d'Hank Williams chéri. Je possède une tripotée de versions de cette chanson... Hank Williams, Jerry Lee Lewis, Patsy Cline, The spotnicks, Emmett Miller & his georgia crackers, Marty Robbins, Beck, Madeleine Peyroux, Leon Redbone, Eric Andersen Je vous en mettrai une ou deux un dimanche (Jerry Lee notamment), mais, comme on est samedi, je suis obligé de mettre l'original, sinon, michelsardou y me tape, ce méchant. J'ai entendu cette chanson pour la première fois dans la bouche de ce bon vieux Léon et [...]
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