Here's the fifth part of this tour through Country music's past. Now it's Hank Williams. Plenty of this stuff already on my channel, but you can never get enough of good ol' Hank!
I grew up listening to all this music. My dad loved it. I was a Rock and roller. Now I find myself not only listening to this music but actually playing it on guitar.
Hank Williams was handsome and a great Talented Entertainer. A good Man. What a shame that he was a binge drinker with a painful back. I really appreciate his music now. It is so sad that he died so young.
Always Loved Hank as a child and still today. I can’t spell that back problem he had in his spine but I do know if he had a bad case of it he probably drank more to ease the pain. And that would turn you into a alcoholic. I never saw him but miss him dearly. We love you Hank great writer.
To be specific, his driver stopped at a filling station in Oak Hill, West Virginia. About 10 miles from Beckley, West Virginia. He found Hank was unresponsive and he took him to the hospital in Oak Hill, about a block away. The filling station was torn down a couple of years ago. The hospital is still there. I live near Beckley.
he started the faithful trip that night out of a famous hotel in downtown knoxville tn. It still stands. the dope was probably bought in big orange country.
Might not have been well educated!!!! The man definitely had a God given talent!!! He could put emotions n word's like nobody!!! Hank was a very warm hearted man!!! Hanks road was not a easy one!!!Hank Williams absolutely the best ever!!!!
hank williams wonderful man, greatest county singer ever. his songs brings tears to your eyes. fell good kind of country music, never will be music like this.
it's amazing that this video shows the silver dollar in my hometown it is were Hank Williams carved out his name in the bar it also shows Hondo tx that is around 30 miles away
Not just spina bifida, but spina bifida occulta, where part of the spine isn't fully covered. It's caused by a lack of folic acid during pregnancy, so it isn't seen much in the developed world any more. Surgery is available today, but back then for a poor boy? Probably not. So those who call him an alcoholic or drug addict aren't really being fair to him. He was in continual, terrible pain, and medicating himself was the only way he could function.
Gail Lofdahl Thanks for that. I knew he was in great pain and am in awe of what he accomplished during a relatively short life! What a blessing he was to the world of music!!
@@Gail1Marie Your comment is right on the money.That kind of pain would drive anybody to drink...But he was the best and will never be replaced. Rest in Peace..Hank Williams
Funny, Hank died in West Virginia, whoever filmed the opening scene in the desert. I reckon they have never been to West Virginia's green hills and mountains.
Just like movies supposedly in Texas,they ALWAYS show a desert when only far west Texas has deserts the rest is green and humid.All those old westerns that were supposed to be in Texas were filmed in California and Arizona, the real west.Texas is the south.
All the people on here hating on Hank Jr and Hank lll are the same people who would have hated Hank sr. If they were the same age they are now in the 40's
Actually saw him live back in the early 50's, he was right down the road from where my fathers lived and where I grew up. He was at the old Sunset Park, in Jennersville, Pennsylvania. Back in those days, Sunset Park, was almost like the Grand Old Oprey.
Hank Williams a genius cut short in his prime. His songs are the perfect mix of Joy, Pain, angst and heartbreak, in Scotland where I grew up Hank is a mythical figure, like some country and western elemental who’s whoops and whines echo as loudly today as they did in the past. When they build the mt Rushmore of rock royalty Hanks face will be carved there.✌️
@@lauraphillips8593 ... scots & the rural south usa have a very deep connection. most poor whites in the south were of scot irish lineage. the scots were brought over by the brits as grunt & slave labor in the south. the scots resented that & hated the high class strata of anglo aristocracy pre revl war. its why many of them were the first to go to the applach & live in the present nc/tenn/va border areas. the hills were also more like their homeland. words like yonder came directly from scotland. when boone opened up the appl trail thru the cumberland gap many of them move up into east tenn., ky & missouri. then when the revl war started they almost all fought against the brits. its one of the reasons military & fierce indiv indepedence (state rights) is a big thing in the south. by the time of the civil war their descendents were called hillbillies & lived mainly in the appalch & some in the ohio valley. interestingly enough when the civil war broke out, most of e tenn fought for the union b/c of their scot lineage & not embracing slavery. lincoln himself was born in the hills of ky.... of course they carried over scot traditions into music. bluegrass is deeply scottish at its roots. if you mix those influences w/ blues of the delta (wh/ hank did) & jazz of new orleans then you had the genesis of rock. hank was in the incubator of all of that.
Hank three finally said , what l told my friends that Hanks song move it on over,was the first Rock in roll song. Melody was just like rock a round the clock, by Bill Haily and the comets. Ten years before Bill did it.
HANK SR WAS ONE OF THE BEST SINGER AND SONG WRITER. HANK HE PAVED THE WAY FOR A LOT OF SINGERS TOO DAY. TO HANK FRED ROSE WAS LIKE A FATHER FIGURE TO HIM. A,K.A LUKE THE DRIFTER, HANK SR LIFE WAS SO SAD, THANK YOU HANK SR FOR YOUR MUSIC........
Hank Williams was born in an area that produced several other notable people. Mark Childress, Nelle Harper Lee, and Truman Capote. There must be something in the water, soil, or air..! Every time I head west I go out of my way to visit Hank's grave in Montgomery. It's always spotless.
The thing about im so lonesome I could cry is how many people sing it wrong. if you listen you will hear (have you ever seen a robin weep when leaves begin to die like me hes lost the will to live im so lonesome I could cry.) it seems to change the whole song. at least it did for me when I first caught the real words Hank was singing. I was about 9 years old then. Hank will always be the best of them all.
You're right...I've noticed that since I was about 14 (I'm 61 now). I think the copyrighted words were "That means he's lost the will to live", but I think Hank changed them when he recorded it. It makes a world of difference. I think he probably wished he'd have written it that way in the first place. "Like me, he's lost the will to live" is a much more intimate and personal lyric. That's the way I sing it.
I heard Hanks 1949 recording when I was a teenager many years ago, and it made a deep impression on me. Especially the line "like me he's lost the will to live". I often wondered why the words have changed.
douglasd53 Hank didn't actually write the song. The song was written by a gentleman named Paul Gilley from a small town in eastern Kentucky. Mr. Gilley wrote several Hank Sr. songs but, he sold them to Hank so he didn't receive a writers credit for them. Perhaps that is where the lyrics changed. I should add that nobody could've ever sung them like Hank Williams, he's the gold standard by which ALL country music singers are judged!!!
Hank was in Sun Records in those latter days. As was Pressley, and so many others I cannot any longer vouch to these days. I was there, and I am willing to say that the movie Cadillac Records was a mighty fine bit of history. I was a very young recording student, which was not picked up by the story. I am now 57 yo. It seems all past history,,,,,,,,,,and yet.
Peter Wood-Jenkins Yeah, well..... That's what happens when you're halfway through a bottle of whiskey and timelines and one's fantasies get away from you..............
msattler111 okay. this post is from two yrs ago, and I was 59 yrs old two yrs ago, so I definitely know that msattler111 could not have seen Hank at Sun Studios. Hank died 3 years before I was born. Now, with Sun Records being started in 1950, I guess that it's possible that Hank might have paid them a visitin Memphis, but as far as I know, Hank recorded only on the Sterling and MGM labels.
Hank in addition to Roy Acuff, Rufus Payne (Teetot), Gospel Music and Ernest Tubb had one more influence not mentioned. Jimmie Rodgers (the Singing Brakeman).
It seems people don’t acknowledge his severe health problems with his back. That’s what started the snowball down the hill with alcohol & drugs. Anyone in chronic pain knows how bad it can be. To accomplish what he did in spite of all is amazing. Such a sad story.
Hanks Cold Cold Heart was the first song I learned. Now all of these people talking about Hank like he’s the corner stone, but yet none today write or sing about things he did. Today’s artists are shallow as a country stream. Actually a dry creek bed.
Sweet Country Daddy and Celtic Queen Dolly 's Master👰🙏Lord how we know this heavy cross of yours as your back bones hurted so much😿😫yet you always kept this strong belief .💜🀄that makes you even more admirable we remember too you united every Buddy and still does👼🐴🐈🎸👻😉
Ernest Tubb doing a Chuck Berry song! Chuck always said he was influenced by Country Music-you can really hear it in his early singles, like “Maybellene” and “Thirty Days.”
Who could say that love as much as life did not kill Hank......not a heart attack , but heartbreak? Modern medical history cannot understand what the mind can do to the body in times when all else is lost to a basic human soul.
U can say what you want to but old hank was is all Way's will be the best country singer that ever walked up to a mike .old hank should be called the king .he is to me.
Corporalhenshaw, I greatly enjoy these documentaries you take the time to post. Is there a reason why all the episodes are not available on mobile platforms (iPhone, Apple TV) ? It would be great if you could. Thank you.
Yeah I think it wasn't a heart attack that killed him ....it was heartbreak...tortured soul no doubt.. he was a shining star that burned out too soon...
imagrandpa no...frank sinatra. Before any of these men we love. There was frank...I’ve heard before Elvis there was nothing. No...before frank Sinatra there was nothing!!!!
1 of my favorites is MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS I had a nosey neighbor, i would play it from my car with all the doors and trunk open! Mr. Pervert got the message. I actually caught him looking in my window with binoculars. Jerk, he moved eventually, because he burned all his bridges and his handful of friends
The series is called Lost Highway: The Story Of Country Music and it was broadcast on the BBC in England in 2003.The series used to be on eBay, but isn't anymore. This website claims to sell it www.ioffer.com/i/lost-highway-the-story-of-country-music-4-dvd-519775277
