“I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” is one of the greatest and saddest songs you’ll ever hear.

@debrabeck9630

Жыл бұрын

My favorite from Hank Williams, and I love so many.

@kingmonkey460

10 ай бұрын

I'll be honest, it's such a good song, but I don't think it's the saddest he's sang. Pins and Needles In My Heart I Told A Lie To My Heart I Hang My Head And Cry Wedding Bells Definitely a good one, but in my opinion, these are just a few songs I think are sadder than I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry. Definitely a great song though

@bre2581

7 ай бұрын

@@kingmonkey460alone and forsaken is the one for me that’s the saddest

@kingmonkey460

7 ай бұрын

@@bre2581 you know, I suppose it is all up to one's own opinion Hank's saddest song. Alone and Forsaken is a good one

Hank Williams was a poet of small words. Ask Leonard Cohen.

The moon just went behind the clouds, to hide it's face and cry.....Sheer poetry

Don’t ever underestimate how beloved this man’s music was to a whole generation of people. Many consider him the King of country.

Hank had a song called Your Cheating Heart, so not always so squeaky clean. He wrote Move it on Over which was later covered by George Thorogood. A very rocking cover. I always loved I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry

@chestrockwell6807

Жыл бұрын

Move it On Over is arguably the world's first rock and roll song. Came out in '47

Songwriter Harlan Howard said that country music was "three chords and the truth."

My grandmother knew him. Every time he came to town she would hurry down to Cain's Ballroom in Tulsa Oklahoma to commiserate. That was back in the 40's and yet Cain's is still there in T-Town. As we say here in Texas; Y'all be safe.

Hank Williams is worth the rabbit hole. Remember his context and, as you do, appreciate it for what it's capable of. Hank's lyrics won't be pushing too many boundaries, though it is undoubtedly poetic, but his style is totally alive and true. The voice is amazing. Particular favorites are "I Saw the Light" and "Rocking Chair Money." Also, actually towards the late 1960s many pop musicians, including Brits, did get influenced by this country style (see Bob Dylan's Nashville Skyline, The Byrds' Sweetheart of the Rodeo, and The Rolling Stone's song Dead Flowers, among others.).

@michele-33

Жыл бұрын

Many people don't like Nashville Skyline, I love it. If you don't know it check out Dylan's country song *Wallflower*... Hank was Bob's first musical Idol

@Hartlor_Tayley

Жыл бұрын

@@michele-33 Nashville Skyline is a great album as Is his John Wesley Harding album from around the same time.

@michele-33

Жыл бұрын

@@Hartlor_Tayley Love John Wesley Harding. Out of all Dylan's albums there are a couple albums where his vocal delivery is not to my liking... Time Out of Mind being one. But...the outtakes are better than album versions. Basement Tapes are excellent - he & The Band had such fun during that period! Love Desire too. Bob used so many voices over the decades.

@michele-33

Жыл бұрын

@@Hartlor_Tayley The group Judas Priest took their name from the song *Frankie Lee and Judas Priest from John Wesley Harding*. Bob's music has influenced countless artists!

@BrianMihok

Жыл бұрын

@@michele-33 Absolutely love Nashville Skyline. Wallflower is great.

A lot of really great musicians are heavily inspired by Hank Williams. Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, John Fogerty and even Keith Richards to only mention a few.

Hank passed away January 1, 1953 at the age of 29. My dad taught me to two-step and waltz to Hank Williams' music. Check out "Your Cheatin Heart", "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry", "Move it on Over and "There's A Tear in my Beer" that technology made it possible for Hank Jr. to record a song with his dad. The music of this era could rip your heart out. Good reaction.

Hank Sr. Was so influential and left such a huge impact on all music genres in just the very few years he was recording

I never thought of Hank Williams' songs as sweet. A lot of them are filled with pain.

63 is referred to as the end of innocence. 1952 network tv was only 4yrs old, live tv was a little awkward.

Hank Williams, Sr was affectionately known as THE HILLBILLY SHAKESPEARE because of his beautifully crafted lyrics. His songs are literally poetry set to music. They Pulitzer Prize Committee honored him with a citation for his accomplishments in songwriting, and for moving country music into the mainstream of American culture. Hank was a genius with words.

I was watching this on the tv with my dad in 1952. Things were more simple, people had dignity and respect, and real love.

I think (for the first time since I've watched, appreciated and respected) many of your reactions, that you are missing a bit here. You're right about the poetry as it is just that. But while this sounds so innocent, it tells a never ending story that couples deal with to the present. The beautiful thing about this performance was first how he didn't rush it as if he'd played it hundreds of times before and just wanted to get through it. Second, that his facial expressions throughout the song help back the story, and third that it was all true. Oh, and you talked about that stoic look, and he doing that, all while suffering from severe spinal problems that no doubt helped assist in the gamble of having any kind of temporary relief for him in exchange for his life.

He was actually singing about his wife. It came from his own life. A beautiful song.

You might also be interested in the amazing variety of great covers of Hank Williams’s songs - including Fats Domino’s version of “Jambalaya”, Jerry Lee Lewis’s version of this song, plus others like “You Win Again” and “Your Cheating Heart”, Linda Ronstadt’s “I Can’t Help It If I’m Still in Love With You,” and Tony Bennett’s version of “Cold, Cold Heart.” You can find them all on KZread & you’ll be glad you found them!

With good reason Hank Williams was called "The Hillbilly Shakespeare." GENIUS.

Atta-boy Sy, you have a brave spirit of exploration and knowledge of the unknown. I like that. Hank was big. Dylan was a big fan of his growing up.

It's going to be harder for this to pull you into the different aspects of country music that appealed so much to us in the 60s & 70s,, a period when music crossed over onto rock stations a lot more. A lot of rock guitarists who you already know, were influenced by the playing of Chet Atkins. Its impressive to watch him play, but for hit songs, his producing came up with more hits and developed many stars of country. One of those was a black country artist, Charley Pride. Check out Charley Pride's cover of an old song, Kaw Liga. But it has to be the one that was recorded live (I think the video shows him in black and white, holding a sweater slung over his shoulder). That version was the vastly improved version that we came to love. Its actually an old Hank Williams song, but feels updated. Then for the country music with a western/horseback flare to the lyrics, hear Marty Robbins' song El Paso (it's first of a series). Trust me. And Bobby Gentry's song Ode to Billie Joe. There are a lot more, but I am a huge fan of the narrative, and these are 3 prime examples of that.

Love Hank. Brilliant. So much Hank in rock. Hank was basically rock. Maybe check out “Move it on Over”. Hank had some pretty dark songs too like “Lost Highway”

@stevedahlberg8680

Жыл бұрын

I absolutely love Lost Highway! It is so fun. It's a classic cautionary tale to younger men, even though he was only around 28 when he wrote it or something, laugh.

@Hartlor_Tayley

Жыл бұрын

@@stevedahlberg8680 I found out Hank didn’t write it. Great song though.

@stevedahlberg8680

Жыл бұрын

@@Hartlor_Tayley I can't tell you how many times I've played that song with friends sitting around a campfire or bonfire on a front porch drinking whiskey in my younger days. It just resonate so much and it's such a great song for him.

@Hartlor_Tayley

Жыл бұрын

@@stevedahlberg8680 same here. It’s one of those songs. If a person were to learn just one song for when the guitar gets passed around, that’s the song. Hank made it his own the way he sang it. There’s a lot of Hank in Dylan in fact when I saw Dylan he played two Hank songs “Lonesome Whistle” and another. CCR the Grateful Dead, the band. Lots of Hank there two.

@stevedahlberg8680

Жыл бұрын

@@Hartlor_Tayley Great examples and also, pretty much all of country music even today to some degree or the other, but many others in the biggest example I can think of right off the top of my head is Lynyrd Skynyrd. They were so influenced by Hank Williams and Jimmie Rodgers it is unbelievable.

Hank Williams was considered a rebel in the Country and Western music genre at the time . He wasn't allowed to perform at the Grand Old Opry in Nashville , Tennessee until he changed some of his lyrics .

But do you hear his pain? Hank lived hard in his short life and it’s in his work. No one can do pain like Hank. “Im So Lonesome I Could Cry” is full of poetic metaphor. Don’t let the simplicity fool you. Hank is deep with experience lived first hand. The woman in this song can’t love because her heart is “shackled to a memory”. That’s not innocence

Hank wrote some of the darkest songs in American music. Rock and Roll is born from all American Roots music. Blues, Country, Jazz and more.

Blues , Folk, Country , Jazz styles of music were beginning to blend together by the 60's , going back to the past and moving forward is musical education. Like roots to a tree and the branches which continue to spread out so is the Evolution music.....

5:30 I definitely agree with you that things were so different then, but this is just a certain genre and really just one song. Because I mean if you even look at stuff from the Roaring Twenties or any of the 1940s big band stuff, people act all outrageous sometimes. It just depends on the context. And for example, I think it's his song Hey Good Lookin', that there might be some short video of as well, and in this it's a much more upbeat song and it's funny, so he's not trying to be all subdued and so forth, but he's really kind of moving around some, at least for this kind of performance idiom, which as you say is generally more constrained, of course, but, he's doing all kinds of funny things with his eyes and he really comes off as this dynamic magnetic character, lol.

@Hartlor_Tayley

Жыл бұрын

Some of those 1920s and 30s songs were just incredible.

@stevedahlberg8680

Жыл бұрын

@@Hartlor_Tayley I didn't appreciate it as a kid and it was definitely the music of my grandparents generation who were teens in the twenties, in fact I think my grandma wanted to be a flapper girl when she was a tween, laugh. Instead she got married young and raised four children during the Great Depression and WWII. And my parents heard it a lot and their music was a bit later but it was nostalgic for them. But later as I got more mature as a musician and in my study of Music going way back, I suddenly understood why it was a new thing at the time and all the rage and it's just so weird to think about but then I saw that my grandfather had actually written seven or eight songs and had them published that sound just exactly like that 1920s and 1930s music and I learn to play them and then in junior high I started in jazz band on the trumpet and we learned all the old big band stuff, and Count Basie and so forth and everything just suddenly changed and I could understand it. So it took me awhile, but now I completely agree with you!

@Hartlor_Tayley

Жыл бұрын

@@stevedahlberg8680 we have a similar story. My dad was jazz guy and I played trumpet in band, before I played guitar. It took me a while to come around to Hank and early country/blues but I was basically force fed swing ad Dixieland from a young age so I got that rhythm which paid off as a musician.

@stevedahlberg8680

Жыл бұрын

@@Hartlor_Tayley That's so funny, I had wanted to play trumpet since kindergarten but they blackmailed me and made me take classical piano lessons instead, and then in fourth grade when you can take it in public school, I started trumpet and I played it all the way through high school, was usually first chair and won awards at State and so forth. I still use it some today in live performances and in the recording studio, although I mostly play guitar and sing, sometimes keyboards, bass guitar and drums. But it was that whole trumpet experience that exposed me to the old stuff and my dad had a 1955 Capitol Records recording from live on Bourbon Street called Midnight on Bourbon Street, Sharkey Bonano and his Kings of Dixieland, and it had such a huge impact on me it was insane. And what I read about it was that those primary figures that were huge at the time in New Orleans, really were young in the 1920s and came into that status over a few decades. But your post suddenly reminded me of the early Andrews Sisters. I didn't really hear them for how amazing they were as an adult musician until probably into my late twenties, although of course I heard them a lot in the background when I was younger, because again it was the music of my grandparents generation. But the stuff they were doing in the late 1930s and during WWII just absolutely blows me away. And so I read all about them and suddenly it clicked. Those three sisters grew up in a very musical family and apparently their dad had a band and it had a horn section and they heard the trumpets playing those jazzy, raucous horn lines and being so incredibly tight together and with very close harmonies, that that's how they learned to sing! So not only are they super tight because they are sisters, but they patterned off of that sound and that is why their singing is not only astonishing but they're so free with their sounds; they make all kinds of sounds like you would hear horns in a horn section doing; it's fantastic, laugh.

@Hartlor_Tayley

Жыл бұрын

@@stevedahlberg8680 those sibling harmonies can’t be beat. They were super talented. I agree with you, once I started playing in a rock band and writing songs I really started listening to music way outside of the rock genre and I started hearing subtle things and behind the front of it if you know what I mean.

Love it! My grandma who used to babysit me a lot used to sing hillbilly and bluegrass songs to me. My grandmother and mother were also in country and western music. I've listened to Country and Rock both my whole life. I'm into the older Country stuff prior to the late 1970s. The Grateful Dead, and bands who came out of Laurel Canyon do a lot of Country and Country flavors. Bob Dylan's music has had a Country flavor since the Nashville sessions. Folk and Country mesh great with Rock. The Byrds, CSNY, Neil Young, The Band, Bob Dylan, Grateful Dead all write Country songs and have Country flavor in a lot of their songs.

@rogeebundy6002

Жыл бұрын

Liaten to wete still a livin to hear the bars

Keep in mind that this song was a decade earlier than 1963. It was just as rock 'n' roll was starting to emerge from its country roots and blues rhythms into a more coherent theme unto itself. Dance music of the old fashion style wis more popular at this time coming out of World War II one big band music was all the Craze. Country folk music was looked upon his back water unsophisticated music. The rhythms were still very slow but the words are still quite cleverly written and are still around today. One of the major differences between country music and rock 'n' roll is that country is that typically tells a story where is rock and roll tends to make a statement. One thing that a lot of people your age don't seem to realize is that instead of one big river of popular music there were multiple streams of genres and definition of these flowing all at the same time sometimes intertwined and sometimes going their own separate ways but always influenced one way or another by each other. Sadly, in many other ways Hank was ahead of his time because he died from alcohol and painkillers in the backseat of his Cadillac traveling to a gig.

4:20 I think it's interesting that you hear it as sweet and simple and I can completely understand that of course. But as someone who has heard, studied, and played this era of music my whole life, along with all kinds of other genres, I would say it's because it is so new to you. You don't really get all the nuance and subtlety that goes into it. It sounds simple but if you hear just anybody even in a bar band try to replicate it, unless they really get it, it's going to sound awful. There is so much that goes into the feel of it. The rhythm of it is not perfectly straight nor is it swing. There's a bit of a hesitation to it. There is all the stuff that happens with his voice with the breaks and all that but more importantly, the phrasing. And the way the few instrumental layers fit together, including that essential pedal steel guitar, which was relatively new at the time, it's really quite something. I liken it to someone who is new to hip-hop and they always seem to say that it all sounds the same, which is absolutely ridiculous. Once you listen to it enough and get familiar with it, you start to understand the huge universe that any given genre contains. There can be a lot of crap in it but there's always good stuff and Innovative stuff for the time, and there are always some unbelievable gems.

@Hartlor_Tayley

Жыл бұрын

You absolutely nailed it with that comment.

Syed, “Lost Highway” and “I’m so Lonesome I Could Cry” are both great Hank songs to react to.

Father of country and western music. Kennedy was assassinated 11 years later in 1963. The Beatles came in a few WEEKS later. This is back when Ray Charles was just hitting the charts with the MESS AROUND. Ray is the father of rock, and Hank is the father of country, both branch off of blues and gospel.

@mikefetterman6782

Жыл бұрын

This was about A YEAR after television was invented (maybe two) Most people were not confident in stage antics. Nobody had seen much yet. There were no Mick Jaggers yet.

At last I can say that I wasn't alive when this one came out :)

Hank Williams/Setting The Woods On Fire

@rogeebundy6002

Жыл бұрын

And half as much

For dark and sardonic old time Country Western, there's always Porter Wagoner, e.g., "The Cold Hard Facts of Life", with, among others, it's song "The First Mrs. Jones".

What happened in the late fifties and early sixties was television. Plain and simple. It accelerated culture. Just like the internet is doing now. You could no longer keep ideas, musical or otherwise, bottled up.

3:10 I agree with what you're saying about there was a change, but I would definitely say it happened earlier than that. Look no farther than the 1956 Elvis Presley explosion and that is 100% different then Hank Sr. And don't be fooled by this; he has a lot of upbeat stuff, like Hey Good Lookin', and Jambalaya, but also one of the most haunting ballads I've ever heard and I have performed this live and it always gives me goosebumps even while it does the same to the audience, because it's just a good song and Hank showed us how to sing it, is called, Travelin Man. It is so powerful it is impossible to explain. And he has a lot of hilarious songs too, like I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive, lol. And his yodeling stuff is fantastic, like Long Gone Lonesome Blues and many others. This music may sound Innocent but it's not. He was able to reach people because everybody walking this planet can identify with the heartache in his voice or the humor or the uplifting songs. Everyone. In addition to Traveling Man, another one that was probably even a bigger hit and has been covered so many many times because it's so powerfully sad, is I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry. Check out the audio of these if nothing else.

It was 1949,on theGrande Ole Opry,you couldn't say F$>^k You!!,on the radio you hooked up to the6volt battery from your 1939 model A,invited everyone from 5 miles away !!Crank up Ole Hank and All the Opry!!🙏😎💯

Ask all the great songwriters and they will all tell you Hank Williams was one of their biggest influences. Bob Dylan included.

Muddy said it best. The blues done had a baby and they named the baby rock and roll.

Hank might be the greatest American musician ever. Completely self made. Learned guitar from a black man and sang with black musicians for tips, which was ahead of his time considering he lived in Alabama. He made music look and sound how it does today.

Hank was Dylan's first musical Idol, he actually loved him. Bob sang like him quite well too, check out his song *Wallflower* (privately) Ps: some people say that's where Jakob took the name for his group but he denies it. Rock on! Peace 🕯️

Just a note, "Beans and biscuits" in America biscuits are very similar to what you call "scones." You're right about the blues influence. If you look at music that originated in America, you will find both gospel and blues at the heart of it all. Be it jazz, Country and Western, folk, rock, soul, or what have you--at it's roots lies the music created by American slaves--gospel and blues. Lot of people don't want to hear that fact, but it's true

"Innocence" is not something one would usually associate with Hank Williams. But I can see how it could seem that way when comparing to post 60s music.

Hank Williams, Hank Williams Jr., and Hank III

Great reaction! One love!!!

This reminds me that I went on my own journey discovering old music of my Grandparents generation. I fell in love with folk music from the 30s to the 50s. I recommend Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie (especially the Dust Bowl Ballads).

0:59 you got that right ... and so many today who'd claim to be inveterate Hank fans would have no ABILITY to understand your point. The mighty banjo which originated in West Africa eventually traveled through the 2,200 mile foot migration road we call "the Appalachian Trail" & it somehow managed to connect people unwittingly across all creeds, classes, and colors. I heard even a fox came to be enchanted by the sound of it....but the fox prefers clawhammer style banjo , eschewing Scruggs picking

@daisymoses6812

10 ай бұрын

( Fox & Banjo is a True fairytale, not strictly blarney: see Andy Thorn playing banjo, fiddle, etc to a fox family who live nearby)

I think you should really consider diving deeper into the blues. Not only will you see how it influenced pretty much every British and American rock group of the 60s and 70s, but I think it will also show that not all music of that time was so sweet and innocent lyrically. A lot of Led Zepplin's lyrics are taken word for word from old blues songs. If you want a few suggestions: Skip James - Hard Time Killing Floor Blues, Mississippi John Hurt - Cocaine Blues, and a Blind Willie McTell - You Was born To Die all show off that darker edge of blues music that made it so appealing to the revolutionary musicians of the 60s.

Very poignant, meaningful lyrics from the heart. Music was different then as people were more reserved. Love abounded.

A big part of why the songs back then were so sweet - it was before the pill. Love, connection, and trust before sex was a much bigger deal.

@Hartlor_Tayley

Жыл бұрын

Check out Hanks song “Setting the Woods on Fire” sexual innuendos galore.

You're probably the best interpreter of this song I've seen on KZread. Most people who try to react to it can't do it. (It's "too aged", they say, or "sounds bad". So they don't even really give it a real shot.) You, however, seemed to appreciate more about what makes it special than most. Great job. (You earned a sub.) And yes, the poetry is really the value of the song. The sadness of the partner and her past and how she can't really open up to the new guy is what makes it so devastating and hopeless. And Hank does a great job vocally conveying that sad hopelessness and frustration through his singing. (A very similar more modern country hit with a similar theme is Keith Whitley's "Don't Close Your Eyes". It'd be cool give that one a shot... Nice extra reaction content right there.) And yes, interesting you picked up on the blues elements of it. Hank clearly knew blues music, as he was taught the blues by a black man named Tee Tot in the south as a boy. His music is literally defined as "country-blues" - a weird hybrid of country and blues. lol Also, some of his hits (like "Mind Your Own Business" and "Move It On Over") are considered early proto rock and roll songs. So he had a hand in bringing rock about to some degree. (Buddy Holly - the famous and pioneering rock artist of the late 60s, who went on to influence The Beatles, when then influenced countless acts since - was directly influenced by Hank Williams.) Again, very open-minded and thoughtful reaction, man. I enjoyed it.

Stevie Ray Vaughan live at the El Macambo Texas Flood. ❤❤❤❤

He also recorded two albums using the name Luke the Drifter.

@stevedahlberg8680

Жыл бұрын

Pictures From The Other Side Of Life is absolutely amazing.

The amazing thing about Hank is he was more or less the first superstar. He had hit after hit. My favorite song from him was Kaw-Liga. Hank died almost 11 years before Kennedy. His songs have been recorded by Elvis, Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry, Johnny Cash, John Fogerty (Creedence Clearwater Revival front man), Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Rolling Stones, Linda Ronstadt, George Thorogood....

You don’t often hear someone play one of their greatest hits at such a slower pace than the popular recording. He really brings out his poetic lyrics here.

@beegee1960

7 ай бұрын

Hand never hurried his words. I once heard someone say that Hank drew every ounce of feeling from every word in a song. And Hank was once quoted as saying about his songs that he wanted a country boy to hear his song on Saturday night and be able to sing it on Monday morning.

For another artist from that era, try Patsy Cline. Suggestions would include her two biggest hits, "Crazy" (written by Willie Nelson) and "Walking After Midnight". My own favorite is "She's Got You". Hope you enjoy these tunes as much as I enjoy your reactions. 🙂

Don't forget that this was recorded when television was only a few years old. The musicians were probably told not to move because they couldn't refocus the cameras fast enough. Hank has some barn-burners as well as ballads. You will find he has a lot more energy than this song would suggest. Don't look for videos, though. They are all very primitive.

Holy crap! I just saw it in a below comment, listen to “im so lonesome i could cry” ....if u ever have a break up, get drunk and put that song on, youll weep for a week straight....hanks life kind of sucked, & once u get past the old-timey sound and southern accent youll see that this dude was like a dark poet of depression....he was like andy warhol who always mixed in a tiny bit of black into the bright colors.

If you’re taking suggestions for this genre, a good intro is ‘poncho and Lefty’. It’s a willie Nelson/Merle Haggard song. Great 70s country vibe

This is country music. It took it's own path until the crossover of some of the performers to rock. Country music today is like soft rock.

The change in music really started in the late 1950’s with Elvis, Johnny Cash, Buddy Holly, Ricky Valens, and several others. That’s why the girls screamed so much because music had never sounded so sexy before them.

Hank Williams' son, Hank Williams Jr. had a pretty good career of his own. His song "Family Tradition' has a line in it that goes "So if I get stoned, I'm just carrying on an old family tradition". Hank Jr. was saying he isn't his Daddy, his songs are his own, but he is proud of being Hank Sr.'s son. It's a good one. I think it's cool you're dipping into these old performers. Sister Rosetta Tharpe is another old school performer who was among the first gospel musicians to appeal to rhythm and blues and rock and roll audiences, later being referred to as "the original soul sister" and "the Godmother of rock and roll", She influenced early rock-and-roll musicians including Little Richard, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Eric Clapton.(Wikipedia, so you know it's true 🙄). But she did have major impact way back when. She was especially loved in England, who seemed to appreciate all things R&B.

You should definetly dive into some Van Halen (may Eddie reat in peace), like Panama, Ain't talking 'bout love, Eruption, Hot for teacher, I'm the one, Jump etc. They really have influenced the rock world with Eddie making the tapping technique popular and they really have their own sound. Love your journey so far!

MOST OF HIS MATERIAL, IS FROM HIS PERSPECTIVE/EXPERIENCE WITH HIS EX-WIFE/MOTHER OF THEIR SON. HE IS LEGEND 💯

Norah Jones covering this also worth a look

You will be surprised at just how many songs Hank wrote and how many stars later covered them. Elvis said that ' I'm so lonesome I could cry' was one of the greatest and saddest love songs ever written. BTW Cold Cold Heart was written about his wife who he had a more or less toxic relationship with. There is always more to his songs than at first appears.

@SyedRewinds: You'll have to define what you mean by "sweet and innocent". I suspect you mean "lyrical and non-explicit" which, to me, makes Hank Williams' lyrics the more poetic. You'll need to listen to more of his recordings/songs to appreciate how good and influential he was (there's plenty of suggestions in the comments). BTW Don't get hung up with "it all changed in 1963". It was the early/mid-50s when it started to change and Hank was part of that.

1963. JFK. You nailed it.

Kennedy was killed in November 1963 and the Beatles came to the US in Feb 64- Ed Sullivan show. And then the Vietnam war, so yeah, somethings happened.

This is the best video you put up !!! He has a fanous son of course you already know but Hank was what before the Kennedy assination also Snow White Dove is him next best this was probably in the late 40s to mid 50s

1963-1964 was when the Beatles broke and changed everything.

Lyrics that actually make sense.

It's interesting that you talk about innocence and sweetness, and you're not wrong - but there was also a great deal of stuff about sex and death and darkness, just hidden by euphemisms. Sometimes that's more interesting than being blatant about it, although of course sometimes it meant important stuff was hidden away. Either way it's fascinating to see the similarities and differences that 70 years make.

Williams was born with a mild undiagnosed case of spina bifida occulta. It might be why he was statuesque

Buddy hollys death killed the innocence in rocknroll but was brought back by the beatles

This was done before January 1 of 1952 for I believe that's when he died

Syed, as much as you enjoy the lyrics of songs, I would suggest Kris Kristopherson. I see him in the same vein as Dylan and Simon and Garfunkel. Almost any of his songs, but recommend The Pilgram, Billy Dee, Me and Bobby Mcgee.

What happened in 1962 was the the Cuban Missile Crisis we all thought we were gonna die

@thaddeus1950

Жыл бұрын

I think it pretty much explains the 60’s

A short excerpt of hank williams lyrics, i LOVE kurt cobain, but he had nothing on hank, hank too was a dark, poetic genius: “A jug of wine to numb my mind But what good does it do? The jug runs dry and still I cry I can't escape from you These wasted tears are souvenirs Of a love I thought was true Your memory is chained to me I can't escape from you There is no end, I can't pretend That dreams will soon come true A slave too long to a heart of stone I can't escape from you” ~~ Hank Williams, “i cant escape from you”.

@vincentvancraig

Жыл бұрын

HUGE influence on bob dylan, that cant be said enough.

The Real OG .. #masters

You're right about the pop culture changing after Kennedy's assntn. Then, show business became 100% soulless after 2000.

This might surprise you: Bob Dylan wanted to be Hank Williams. There’s a lot of darkness in his music. There was a lot of darkness in his life.

Check out his songs lost highway, setting the woods on fire, move it on over

Ok… it’s called the rock and roll and sexual revolution. That’s what changed. These were simpler times. Plus this is pure country. But Hank Williams is an icon.

Check out According To My Heart by Jim Reeves and then listen to a cover of it by an Australian band The Reels in 1978. In 1981 I was a member of a band called The Particles and we did a lot of gigs supporting The Reels. I really love their work.

Hey if you're out there might I suggest checking out something by "Gram Parsons" He wrote Wild Horses for the Rolling Stones with Keith Richards

Straight from the heart. Kris Kristofferson had it right “but if you don’t like Hank Williams, honey you can kiss my ass”

Also, Lost Highway is a banger

Elvis made the change

It was the voice in those days.

You should do breadcrumb trail by slint, they're stuff is stellar as hell!

We had nothing but AM radio. Indeed radio broadcasts were about the only thing going. TV, if you had any, was 1-3 channels of black and white. Mass media infancy.

Your cold,cold heart is about past trauma and heartbreak keeping a woman from feeling safe with a man who loves her. A very complex song in a very short song. Your cheating heart. Lost Highway I'm So Lonesome I could Cry Even the hymn I saw the light implies darkness and pain. There's the light hearted Move it on Over that tells of being in the literal dog house after a night out running around.

The changes came in the 70s.

Would love to see you do Bridge of Sighs by Robin Trower

One of the originals, Hank's sings with plenty of twang in his voice which was popular in the early country. Have you reacted to his son, Hank Williams Jr. His image is not so innocent 😉😁

Hank Williams died the newyear night tok 1953.

Not quite the innocent time that you think. Hank Williams was drinking whiskey by the age of 13, and used a number of drugs including cocaine, morphine, chloral hydrate and heroin. Other songs of his are more tortured.

Alan Jackson put out a haunting song "Midnight in Montgomery" where he pays tribute to Hank Williams. Throughout the song, he has references to Hank's story/songs. It's a beautiful song done in a true country style that is updated for our time. kzread.info/dash/bejne/jHeqtaSPdL26dKg.html