Hank Williams Sr . Considered one of the most influential country music singers of all time. 04-23-1947
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Hank Williams Sr . Considered one of the most influential country music singers of all time. 04-23-1947
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There’s a tear in my beer.
When tears come down like fallin’ rain
You’ll toss around and call my name
My hair is still curly and my eyes are still blue
Why don’t you love me like you used to do?
It was quite a revelation when I realized “Hey good lookin’ – what you got cookin’” was about ”the SEX”.
Haha – pretty much all Blues and RnR songs are about sex. It’s a double meaning always, given the religiousness of the USA (the World), but it was thinly veiled.
One of my fav said revelations was the 50s song by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas called “Nowhere to Run” in which she states succinctly: “Nowhere to run, when it’s SO DEEP, SO DEEP, INSIDE OF MEEEEE!”
Did you ever see a robin weep
When leaves begin to die?
Like me, he’s lost the will to live
I’m so lonesome, I could cry
I could be thinking of someone else, but was it him who was pretty openly racist? Or is that Junior. Or someone else entirely.
This title really underrates his importance. Hank Williams is responsible for codifying so much of what we take for granted about songwriting, pop music, Americana, the image of the singer-songwriter, the romanticism of the tortured musical artist dying too young – read Dylan talking about Hank Williams, he considers him the root of the modern song in a lot of ways.
Damn right. I love me some Hank Sr.
If you love country music you have to listen to the podcast Cocaine and Rhinestones. It’s by Tyler Mahan Coe, yup, David Alan Coe’s son. I think he’s a bit on the spectrum, no offense, because he is so meticulous about his research. It’s amazing. 2 seasons I believe.
I know little about CM so please correct me, but someone once told me that basically all male CM singers are imitating Hank Sr in some form. True in your opinion?
Such an incredible talent and burned out so quickly. “I’m so lonesome, I could cry” is one of the greatest songs in the past eighty years. Along with so many others.
Oh, my buckets got a hole in it!
I saw the light i am damn near to 60 years old and I can still hear the sound of my long dead grandmother singing that song.
One of the greatest song writers that America produced.
Hank Sr is on my personal icons list…right there w Chuck Berry, Keith Richards, Iggy Pop, Johnny Thunders, and Gram Parsons.
“Considered”
Not a country music fan, but randomly picked up a greatest hits cd at a truck stop while on a long drive. Must have listened to it 100 times the rest of the trip memorizing all the songs. His voice, the cadence, the simplicity of the songs…just so amazing. Turned my on to many more of the country singers of the ‘40’s. Also got me listening to classic Mexican crooners like Pedro Infante.
His biography is interesting reading. Hard to comprehend how he could write and perform given the amount of alcohol he consumed.
His music and voice still sound amazing and haunting today