For those that may've been too busy living under a rock, a three-CD treasure trove of unreleased recordings of Hank Williams was recently released after decades of legal battling (which the Williams family won).These were recorded for an early morning radio show and feature many songs never recorded elsewhere, including this one: Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain. This song is now associated with W...
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Good friend dermahrk is guiding us through the world n music of the incredible Hank Williams. It is quite impossible to overstate Mr Williams' influence on Country, Blues, & Pop music in Post-war (WWII) America. His songs seeped into every corner of the country, every genre. So many of his songs, covered & recovered countless times, float through the collective conciousness. Like Woody...
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I'm into the 3rd CD of the new box set Hank Williams: The Unreleased Recordings and loved this little gem the minute I heard it. It was the biggest hit for a country star named Moon Mullican Hank insisted (in a 3 a.m. phone call) to Jim Denny (Mr. Grand Ole Opry) that Moon be featured on his stage. Moon managed to get on anyway. The two of them toured together. Together, they wrote the more fa...
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A while back, i did a post about cheating husbands and revenges thereupon. The boat in the front yard, full of hubby's stuff, wth "Cheating Husband" spray-painted along its side was the best i'd seen up to then, but this is lots better:From Reuters:Buy evidence of my husband's adultery on eBay An Australian woman has taken revenge on her cheating husband by putting a photograph of his lover's ...
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Here'a another rather eerie and unusual gem from the new Hank Williams box set, dealing with the inevitability and barrenness of the grave. The dead warn the living, as they once did in older times on their headstones.The words were written by preacher Elder John Ellis of Dayton, OH in 1838 after visiting the grave of fellow preacher Joseph Thomas (AKA the White Pilgrim for his style of dress)....
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After hearing about Hank Williams for years and years, I bought an LP sometime in the late 1970s featuring 18 or so of his greatest hits. It was not a hit with me - I could not adjust to the reedy voice, poor production and spare, stilted instrumentation. I made a cassette of the vinyl - and played it maybe twice. But over the last couple of years I received several Hank tracks on music magazin...
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I'm only about halfway through Disc 1 of the 3-CD set Unreleased Recordings, but so far this is my favorite. Hank talks about the song a bit in the intro, but to fill in the blanks a bit: On Top of Old Smoky was recorded as far back as 1925, with a melody that goes back even further to a British-American folk song, The Little Mohee. I remember it as most of us would, as a corny campfire sing-al...
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Another unheard (by me) gem that has popped up on the *Proper* box set of *Hank Williams* - ??*Hillbilly Hero*??. My conversion to a Hank fanatic convinced me to spring for a 5-CD *Jimmie Rodgers* box set. Another yodeler, but from an earlier period (1927-1933). When I get to that, expect some tracks to show up here. Where else?After scouring YouTube, it appears there are less than a handful of...
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Whatever happened to yodeling? That's the easy, cheap way to describe this vocal trick, sliding into falsetto and back again quickly, with ease. I guess I, like most others, considered this too corny for words in the past but I really love it these days - or, should I say, I love Hank these days. That box set I bought over Thanksgiving is slowly bleeding onto the iPod and it is chock FULL of ge...
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Another favorite of mine from the new Hank Williams box set (The Unreleased Recordings - NOT the forced album title above) - appropriate for Valentine's Day, as our wives and girlfriends (and for a few of us, both) sit around eating chocolate.The box set booklet calls this a "daffy" song but I loved it upon first hearing. It makes me smile. Hank pitched it to Carl Smith (right, above) and Smith...
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I tried to add this to a comment on Uncle Creepy's mog post, but it would not play. So, I'm going to try to post it myself to see if it plays this way.By the way, I love the new red button, which shows remaining fraction (though not the time). Could this new red button be part of the problem? Dunno.Hey, this proves that Hank figured out Joe Stalin 60 years before Pete Seeger finally did. *DUH*,...
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Its Hanks sons birthday today, so to celebrate lets hear some good old country rock from the days gone by.The big dog is moving in!
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Today I visited the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio. It was really neat; I probably could have spent the whole day looking/listening. After I heard a snippet of a Hank Williams song at one exhibit, I couldn't wait to go back to Nashville. If you had told me four years ago that someday I would listen to Hank Williams, I would have laughed. If you had told me four years ago that...
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just sayin'
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Generally speaking, chart toppers are at the top of the chart because they have that lowest common denominator of taste factor going for them. But moggers aren't anywhere near that lowest common denominator (save the few of us that have guilty pop pleasures here and there). So I've been wondering... what's the most played song by all moggers running mogomatic on their collections? Is there s...
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