Hank was the Hillbilly Shakespeare. In a time when being a strong man meant you had to hide your feelings, he was strong enough to show his for the world to see and sing for these men to show them that somebody understood them.
Indeed! He not only influenced many country legends, but Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones also credits Hank Williams with influencing him! His music is still touching and influencing artist today, more than sixty years after his death!
That's why Hank is now, will always be, "The Man", in country music. I've had people tell me that they think So-in-So is way better. I tell them that, when So-in-So receives the same ovation at a concert, SEVENTY YEARS after their death, I'll concede that they're as good or better than Hank.
Elvis Presley sang this in his 1973 Aloha from Hawaii concert. He introduced it by saying ""I'd like to sing a song that's... probably the saddest song I've ever heard."
I have been singing this my whole life. Hank Sr is amazing. I love the cry in his voice, the steel guitar, the fiddle...oh how I love this song. My Daddy sang it to me, and I to my kids. Thank you for reacting to this. He's a legend and one of the founders of Country music. He needs and deserves to be heard. ❤️🙏😇
Lets not forget these boys recorded that LIVE in he Studio. No track, no retakes to correct things and no processing the vocals. What you heard is what he gave ya'll. I wish he lived longer. I can only imagin the stuff he would have done. Funny seeing your video of " The 1st time hearing Hank Williams " When I was a kid, back in 1967, and everyone was rock and rolling, I found an Old Hank record my old man had and I got hooked that day. I played the record over and over to try and figure out what was happening. Well, what happened is Hank, even gone, capture another ear, heart and I am still hooked on his music today. Welcome aboard ! :-)
This is one of my favorite Hank Williams songs. You can just hear the loneliness in his voice, as he was a lonely man himself. Combine that with Zeke Turners lead guitar playing throughout the song and Jerry Byrds steel and Tommy Jacksons fiddle, and you've got a masterpiece.
You read the lyrics of this song and it is pure poetry! The man was a genius wordsmith! "The moon just went behind the clouds to hide its face and cry"...."The silence of a falling star lights up a purple sky!"
Ken Burns did a passable Hank Williams Sr. section in his recent Country Music documentary. Much background into that lends understanding to Hank's source of song writing material.
This is classic American Country music at its core. My mom used to have a bunch of 78s of this artist. Boy, that vinyl is brittle. What passes for Country today is pathetic. It used to be Country Western music. In any event, you cannot get more Country Hard Core than Hank Williams. In the classic sense that is. Again, not all artists today are watered down, there are some good ones. But not many. Certainly none as authentic as Hank Williams.
For sure! I grew up hearing Johnny Cash's version and found out in my teens that Hank Williams originally recorded and wrote it! Many remakes of this absolutely s•ck! You should also listen to Bernadette Peters' version and Norah Jones' Jazz version!
Hank was the man! He wrote most of his songs. He had so many great, great songs. This one, Your Cheating Heart, Lovesick Blues, Cold Cold Heart, Hey Good Lookin', I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love With You), Jambalaya (On the Bayou). If you ever hear people talking about how the Beatles were so innovative, bringing in exotic sounds for their records, listen to Kaw-Liga. You may have sang I Saw the Light in church. We did.
@@davidfrischknecht8261 He had been taking morphine for his back given to him by a doctor that turned out to be a fake. Died in the backseat of his Caddy being taken to his next show.
He had a back injury that caused him constant pain. Mix his pain medications with the alcohol and you've got a deadly combination. Died in the back seat of his limo on the way to a Christmas Eve or New Year's Eve concert up north.
Hank Williams was and IS one of the greatest songwriters of all time. He is the hillbilly Shakespeare. Great choice please do more any song of his songs are worth listening to and the more you listen to his songs the more you learn about him.
When I was in high school in the late 60's/ early 70's there were a series of inescapable ads on TV selling Hank Williams compilation LPs by mail. The catch phrase was "Nobody played 'em like Hank". I was (and still am) a rocker at heart, but those ads made me an instant fan.
This music is deep in my blood. Hank has been ringing in my ears since 1970 when I was born. That was my dads favorite singer. Thanks for listening to it.
This is a pure classic country song if there ever was one. Ken Burns's documentary series Country Music devotes pretty much an entire 2 hour episode just to Hank Williams Sr, titled "The Hillbilly Shakespeare." A whippoorwill is a bird found in the American south. It sings at night, with a distinctive cry that sound like "whip-poor-will." I don't know if people always heard it as mournful or melancholy, or this song made it impossible for them not to ("he sounds too blue to fly."😢)
As a child, growing up in a small South Carolina town, I went to sleep many nights listening to the sounds of a whippoorwill and a bobwhite. I don't hear them anymore and that is one of the saddest things of all.
This is my favorite Hank Williams tune. He was a very talented man with deep personal issues (he was an alcoholic and an addict) and you could feel his pain through his music. He died really young, at the age of 29 on Jan. 1, 1953, leaving behind two children, a son and daughter. His son Hank Williams Jr. is also a very talented country music singer. Both father and son and legends in the business. There is a great old movie about the life of Hank Williams Sr. starring a young George Hamilton named after one of his best hits, Your Cheating Heart (1964). 💖💖
Hank exhibits what we want in music: raw connection to deep emotions through poetry instrumental composition and nuance, then, top it off with a human voice that authentically brings it all together by letting you feel the uncontrived emotion.
YES,YES, I LOVE THIS SONG SO MUCH REST IN PARADISE MR.WILLIAMS AWESOME WRITTER AND SINGER .I was a very little girl and I fell in LOVE you could his heartache and sadness
Impactful indeed! He inspires musicians of ALL genres! Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones credits this man with inpiring him! Nora Jones does beautiful Jazz versions of his songs!
Hank was a legend. I request hank williams beyond the sunset. It's a beautiful song. My grandmother requested that we would play it at her funeral when she passed.
What poetic lyrics. The imagery is so very poignant. Hank knew how to touch the heartstrings of even pop music afficionados at the time of this release.
He lived to be 27 years old. And put out dozens of unforgettable classics. And changed the Music industry forever. I can only imagine the impact he would have had if he had even ten more years on this Earth. Loved the video. Thank You so much for giving the original legend a chance. I think you would love Hey Good Lookin. Or Move It On Over by Hank. They were his upbeat hits.
Alot of artists did covers of this song, like Elvis and B.J. Thomas, but this original written and sung by Hank Williams Sr. Is definitley my favorite by far.
Great song. Hank has a way of getting the feels going for me. This is another great example of why people should listen to everything. Every genre has its little gems. Sometimes you have to dig to find them, but its so worth it.
The Hillbilly Shakespeare. My dads favorite singer. I grew up listening to this type of music as a youngster and I do play it on guitar with my 80 yr old father. He never tires playing Hank
one time Hank was holding auditions for a steel guitar player for the band, this one guy comes in and plays this hot lick on the steel and the band members all cheered. But Hank ask the guy, "That was great, but can you dumb it down some?". The ask what he meant, and Hank said "I want a farm boy to be able to hear it on Friday night and whistle it in the field on Saturday". I always loved that story, it gives such insight to his philosophy of entertainment. Great reaction. Peace
I first heard this song on the radio with my grandfather in 1950, when I was four. The quality of Hank's songwriting was excellent, he never released a bad song. His music sounds a bit archaic by todays' standards, but get his greatest hits CD and you will be converted. This is a country classic. How about "Lost Highway"?
A short life but one just as blues guitarist and singer Robert Johnson (dying at 27 ) the importance of what they accomplished in a few years cannot be overstated.
Music historians give Hank Williams credit for writing and performing the first example of what would later become Rock n Roll, a little song he wrote and released in 1947 called Move It On Over. Hank was more known for Country Blues and Honkytonk but had his music covered by many artist out side of country music. Tony Bennett had his first big hit with a song written by Hank Williams. Hank Williams had quite a great influence on the music industry.
@KSO Treat yourself to a Hank Williams "Greatest Hits" box set and listen to one of the greatest of ANY genre. "You Win Again", "Cold. Cold Heart", "Hey Good Lookin'", etc etc......
My Dad loved old yodeling country and western - Hank Williams, Hank Snow, Wilf Carter (Canada's Yodelling Cowboy), as well as Flatt & Scruggs (who did the theme song to the Beverly Hillbillies). To this day I get nostalgic over old country and western music, and have a great appreciation for it.
His voice isn't crying he does yodel in quite of his few songs so it tends to come naturally, this guy pioneered music as we know it today, little did he know he influenced rock too dive deep into his music he was gifted in writing and singing of the heart. Even know his song still live on like a true legend.
Yeah, actually he was drunk. All we poets, helpless romantics have. It's so nice to see someone of color, and so young appreciate this golden gem of a song. I wish I knew you. Wish I could share with you all the other golden gems since forgotten. May the music set you free, love.
You are really deep into it now, KSO! This is pure Appalachian mountain music. Hank was a true hillbilly, country & western icon. B.J. Thomas (the guy who sings "Raindrops Are Falling on My Head") did a cover of this song that is amazing!
There is no such thing as a bad Hank Williams song. On their own every one of them is peerless but then you add the high lonesome heartbroken voice and you have the miraculous. This is his greatest work. Even God cries when she hears this.
Hank was the King. For decades if you wanted to break into the music world you recorded a Hank Williams song. It was a good chance it would sell if you had any talent.
When Elvis performed this song in the worldwide concert Aloha from Hawaii in 1973 he told the audience it was the saddest song. Hank was the real deal.
One of my absolute favorite artists, and I'm 29. His career only lasted about 4 years, but he had the largest impact out of anybody in the genre. Sad to think of all the other great songs we will never hear, due to his young passing.
My Dads most favorite singer . He liked what he called that the older country . Country from the 40s and 50s . I was born in 60s and so I grew up with what he called what he called newer country the 60s and 70s and occasional 40s and 50s . If I wanted pop I needed to listen to it in my room . So I grew up well rounded in music . Before I even bought any pop (records it was back then ) I bought two country singles or 45 records . Lynn Anderson I never Promised you a rose garden and Dolly Parton's Coat of many colors . I believe I was 9 when they came out . My first Pop My friends had those records and we listened to them there before I bought any of my own . Those first two favorites at 9 was Joy to the World by the Three dog night and American pie by Don Mclean .
In the pantheon of lyricists, he's on fucking Mt. Rushmore with Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and a player to be named later... The GREATEST storyteller songwriter that ever drew breath on planet Earth! The sad thing is that to be that good at it, he had to live it. Hank had a HARD life. But he lived it hard for all of us to see, so maybe we wouldn't have to.
My Dad's favorite, no one quite like Hank. His Luke the Drifter songs are also great. "We're Still Livin" so everythings OK" Great song and we need to think about it today, maybe we would be better off.
If you want to hear & see something cool, watch the video of Hank Jr singing with his father Hank Sr. "There's a tear in my beer". Hank died when Hank Jr. Was 3 yrs old(I think). The video is amazing.
He had a great voice and a short life. If you want to hear something more cheerful by him try Jambalaya on the Bayou Jambalaya on the Bayou - Hank Williams - TH-cam
Hank Williams and Woody Guthrie were probably the 2 biggest influences on Bob Dylan, who then influenced almost every major rock artist, starting with the Beatles. Hank was also central to the development of country music. He was a brilliant songwriter.
Some of his best work was put out under the name "Luke The Drifter"-but have your tissues ready for many of them, he was a man with a lot to say, and said it well, before taking hrs leave of this world at 29 years of age.
I remember the first time I heard a Whippoorwill.. I was an roughly 12. My parents got into another one of their bad arguments, and my mom started walking down the driveway, with my older sister and carrying my little brother who was a toddler. My dad was standing outside of the house, and I was halfway between them. I didn't want to be walking down the road, so I was going to try to stay. My mom yelled at my dad that I was wanting to stay there. But dad looked at me with a pissed off face, doubled up his fist, and probably said something. Basically signifying to me to get away from him, and that I wasn't staying. So I joined up with mom and my siblings and started walking. It was in the evening, but it eventually turned into night as we walked. We didn't have anything but ourselves. We walked roughly 3 miles down the dirt road before a guy and a lady in their truck drove by and offered to give us a ride. My mom gave them a fake story about our car being broke down and that we were just going to a random house about a mile down the road. Mom tried to decline the ride offer, but they were insistent. So we jumped in the back, and they dropped us off in front of that house. We started to continue walking down the road, but the dogs at that house were barking. The owner eventually came out after hearing the commotion and told us to freeze or he'd shoot. Told us to come to him, where he was standing at his driveway gate. He then realized that it was just a woman and 3 kids. Mom gave him the same false story about our vehicle being broke down. He offered to help, but mom was insistent that we didn't need any. We then continued walking roughly another half mile down the road, and then stopped in a driveway to a field. We sat around and rested for a while. It was dark, and we were in the middle of the woods. It was during that time that I first heard a Whippoorwill repeatedly making it's distinct call into the night. But to end the story, we somehow got in contact of my grandparents (dad's parents). I can't remember how, since we didn't have a phone. And we had them come and pick us up just off of the highway. We continued to walk roughly another 1.5 miles to get to the highway where they picked us up.
Slice of advice. If you listen to Country Music, please make sure you have a Box of Tissues. Listen to "He Didn't Have To Be" or I've Got Your Picture, She's Got You" Yet they also have some funny songs as well.
💔🤠 Poor old cowboy… Died at 29… I love his song jambalaya… goodbye Joe… Me gotta go… me oh my oh… Me gotta go pour the beer oh down the bayou… My Yvonne… The sweetest one…me oh my oh .... Son of a gun will have big fun on the bayou... 💔💔💔💔
Hank died in the year I was born. Hank was born September 17, 1933. I was born September 17, 1953. I figured that somewhere along the way I could learn some Hank Williams songs so I did. Son of a gun we'll have big fun.
This was before they added drums to country music and I feel it was a mistake. They used the standup bass to keep the beat on cue. Hank Sr was a real great writer,singer.
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Hank was the Hillbilly Shakespeare. In a time when being a strong man meant you had to hide your feelings, he was strong enough to show his for the world to see and sing for these men to show them that somebody understood them.
Ain't never been another one like him. Never will be.
Indeed! He not only influenced many country legends, but Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones also credits Hank Williams with influencing him! His music is still touching and influencing artist today, more than sixty years after his death!
Resonates with all.
Very well said.
That's why Hank is now, will always be, "The Man", in country music. I've had people tell me that they think So-in-So is way better. I tell them that, when So-in-So receives the same ovation at a concert, SEVENTY YEARS after their death, I'll concede that they're as good or better than Hank.
Elvis Presley sang this in his 1973 Aloha from Hawaii concert. He introduced it by saying ""I'd like to sing a song that's... probably the saddest song I've ever heard."
I agree with Elvis on that.
I have been singing this my whole life. Hank Sr is amazing. I love the cry in his voice, the steel guitar, the fiddle...oh how I love this song. My Daddy sang it to me, and I to my kids. Thank you for reacting to this. He's a legend and one of the founders of Country music. He needs and deserves to be heard. ❤️🙏😇
Lets not forget these boys recorded that LIVE in he Studio. No track, no retakes to correct things and no processing the vocals. What you heard is what he gave ya'll. I wish he lived longer. I can only imagin the stuff he would have done.
Funny seeing your video of " The 1st time hearing Hank Williams "
When I was a kid, back in 1967, and everyone was rock and rolling, I found an Old Hank record my old man had and I got hooked that day. I played the record over and over to try and figure out what was happening. Well, what happened is Hank, even gone, capture another ear, heart and I am still hooked on his music today.
Welcome aboard ! :-)
This is one of my favorite Hank Williams songs. You can just hear the loneliness in his voice, as he was a lonely man himself. Combine that with Zeke Turners lead guitar playing throughout the song and Jerry Byrds steel and Tommy Jacksons fiddle, and you've got a masterpiece.
You read the lyrics of this song and it is pure poetry! The man was a genius wordsmith! "The moon just went behind the clouds to hide its face and cry"...."The silence of a falling star lights up a purple sky!"
And I'm so lonesome that I could cry.
A masterpiece.
Oh yeah! The moon and sky personified in describing what he's feeling?? THAT'S DEEP!
The two most touching lines in this song ... out of many.
To me, the line that sums it all up is, "Did you ever see a Robin weep when leaves begin to die. Like me, he's lost the will to live."
This is one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard , the words are a masterpiece
Hank Williams Sr, the greatest Country songwriter/performer of them all IMO. His songs came from his tortured life. Thanks so much for this.
Ken Burns did a passable Hank Williams Sr. section in his recent Country Music documentary. Much background into that lends understanding to Hank's source of song writing material.
Hah .. just a fun quibble .. simply Hank Williams .. never called Sr. in his lifetime.
@@michelleplombe7019 …for clarity. There is more than one.
Possibly the greatest 2 + minutes in musical and lyrical history.. this song is to the Bone
This is classic American Country music at its core. My mom used to have a bunch of 78s of this artist. Boy, that vinyl is brittle. What passes for Country today is pathetic. It used to be Country Western music. In any event, you cannot get more Country Hard Core than Hank Williams. In the classic sense that is. Again, not all artists today are watered down, there are some good ones. But not many. Certainly none as authentic as Hank Williams.
Today's "country music" is just rock music with a drop of country flavor, at best. Singing rock from under a cowboy hat doesn't make it country!
@@CrashLandon1 Not only that, a true gentlemen removes his hat once indoors. Today, dipwads wear a cowboy hat to indicate they have no penis.
My father had a stack of Hanks 78rpms! I was born and raised on the Lower Eastside if NYC and besides Doo Wops I loved Hank Williams!
For Today that sounds perfect to country and blues
Is Chris Stapleton
For sure! I grew up hearing Johnny Cash's version and found out in my teens that Hank Williams originally recorded and wrote it! Many remakes of this absolutely s•ck! You should also listen to Bernadette Peters' version and Norah Jones' Jazz version!
This was one of my dad's favorite songs. I have to say, I like it pretty well myself.
Love this song. Hank Williams is awesome.
Hank was the man! He wrote most of his songs. He had so many great, great songs. This one, Your Cheating Heart, Lovesick Blues, Cold Cold Heart, Hey Good Lookin', I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love With You), Jambalaya (On the Bayou). If you ever hear people talking about how the Beatles were so innovative, bringing in exotic sounds for their records, listen to Kaw-Liga. You may have sang I Saw the Light in church. We did.
He was only 29 when he died of heart failure attributed to years of alcoholism & prescription drug abuse. Sad...
Oh my. That’s so sad
Hank died in the backseat of a car near Oak Hill, West Virginia, while he was on tour.
I read that he died due to an overdose on pain meds.
@@davidfrischknecht8261 He had been taking morphine for his back given to him by a doctor that turned out to be a fake. Died in the backseat of his Caddy being taken to his next show.
@@mammoths_4229 amd he had a condition where his spine was spaced out,thus the reason he had to take meds
He wrote from his heart. His life was not his own after he gained fame. He died at age 29 after succumbing to alcohol abuse.
He had a back injury that caused him constant pain. Mix his pain medications with the alcohol and you've got a deadly combination. Died in the back seat of his limo on the way to a Christmas Eve or New Year's Eve concert up north.
This guy had to have been sprinkled by gold dust...so Universal high lonesome blues...I always feel better after hearing Mr. Hank sing. Thank You Hank
The almost endless number of people who have covered this song is a testament to how great it is.
His wife was cheating on him, which gave him sad songs to write. He also wrote Your Cheatin' Heart about her.
To be fair, he was also definitely cheating on her too.
There's an idea that he wrote his songs about himself
@@outdoormadness6059 He did.
Yeah he was too but guess what?
She discovered after he died that he was a great Father and Husband
Hank Williams was and IS one of the greatest songwriters of all time. He is the hillbilly Shakespeare. Great choice please do more any song of his songs are worth listening to and the more you listen to his songs the more you learn about him.
When I was in high school in the late 60's/ early 70's there were a series of inescapable ads on TV selling Hank Williams compilation LPs by mail. The catch phrase was "Nobody played 'em like Hank". I was (and still am) a rocker at heart, but those ads made me an instant fan.
This music is deep in my blood. Hank has been ringing in my ears since 1970 when I was born. That was my dads favorite singer. Thanks for listening to it.
This is a pure classic country song if there ever was one. Ken Burns's documentary series Country Music devotes pretty much an entire 2 hour episode just to Hank Williams Sr, titled "The Hillbilly Shakespeare."
A whippoorwill is a bird found in the American south. It sings at night, with a distinctive cry that sound like "whip-poor-will." I don't know if people always heard it as mournful or melancholy, or this song made it impossible for them not to ("he sounds too blue to fly."😢)
As a child, growing up in a small South Carolina town, I went to sleep many nights listening to the sounds of a whippoorwill and a bobwhite. I don't hear them anymore and that is one of the saddest things of all.
The quintessential country song. Written, and sung, from the heart as only Hank could do it.
My father loved Hank...Rip...both of em😢
Same here my dad to rest in peace
One of the saddest songs ever written. Elvis Presley sang a great version live in Hawaii.
Hi KSO what a gift with words some of these songwriters had Hank Williams was definitely one of the best
Hank Williams has some beautiful Blues Country Music! Your Cheating Heart, I Heard that Lonsesome Whistle.,etc.
This is my favorite Hank Williams tune. He was a very talented man with deep personal issues (he was an alcoholic and an addict) and you could feel his pain through his music. He died really young, at the age of 29 on Jan. 1, 1953, leaving behind two children, a son and daughter. His son Hank Williams Jr. is also a very talented country music singer. Both father and son and legends in the business. There is a great old movie about the life of Hank Williams Sr. starring a young George Hamilton named after one of his best hits, Your Cheating Heart (1964). 💖💖
Hank exhibits what we want in music: raw connection to deep emotions through poetry instrumental composition and nuance, then, top it off with a human voice that authentically brings it all together by letting you feel the uncontrived emotion.
the legend of all legends.
YES,YES, I LOVE THIS SONG SO MUCH REST IN PARADISE MR.WILLIAMS AWESOME WRITTER AND SINGER .I was a very little girl and I fell in LOVE you could his heartache and sadness
This is a true American Masterpiece. Hank had a short but impactful career.
Impactful indeed! He inspires musicians of ALL genres! Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones credits this man with inpiring him! Nora Jones does beautiful Jazz versions of his songs!
Some give Hank credit for starting what is considered modern day country music.
Hank was a legend. I request hank williams beyond the sunset. It's a beautiful song. My grandmother requested that we would play it at her funeral when she passed.
The silence of a falling star lights up a purple sky...poetry.
One of Hanks best but he had many. Died way to young at age 29. A whippoorwill is a bird 😊. Thank you for sharing 👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍Lone Wolf :)
What poetic lyrics. The imagery is so very poignant. Hank knew how to touch the heartstrings of even pop music afficionados at the time of this release.
He lived to be 27 years old. And put out dozens of unforgettable classics. And changed the Music industry forever. I can only imagine the impact he would have had if he had even ten more years on this Earth.
Loved the video. Thank You so much for giving the original legend a chance. I think you would love Hey Good Lookin. Or Move It On Over by Hank. They were his upbeat hits.
Well , 29yo ,but same idea .
Dozens of hits he recorded . Hundreds that he wrote .
Alot of artists did covers of this song, like Elvis and B.J. Thomas, but this original written and sung by Hank Williams Sr. Is definitley my favorite by far.
It's the pictures that he paints with the lyrics that get to me.
So raw, yet so smooth.........none of the cover versions come close to matching the original. Thanks so much for posting....
Great song. Hank has a way of getting the feels going for me. This is another great example of why people should listen to everything. Every genre has its little gems. Sometimes you have to dig to find them, but its so worth it.
Could we just take a moment and think what he would have became if he lived past 27 "I believe"... Incredible artist!!!
Love Hank Williams and this song
I grew up with this music. When country was real music.
The Hillbilly Shakespeare. My dads favorite singer. I grew up listening to this type of music as a youngster and I do play it on guitar with my 80 yr old father. He never tires playing Hank
one time Hank was holding auditions for a steel guitar player for the band, this one guy comes in and plays this hot lick on the steel and the band members all cheered. But Hank ask the guy, "That was great, but can you dumb it down some?". The ask what he meant, and Hank said "I want a farm boy to be able to hear it on Friday night and whistle it in the field on Saturday". I always loved that story, it gives such insight to his philosophy of entertainment. Great reaction. Peace
I first heard this song on the radio with my grandfather in 1950, when I was four. The quality of Hank's songwriting was excellent, he never released a bad song. His music sounds a bit archaic by todays' standards, but get his greatest hits CD and you will be converted. This is a country classic. How about "Lost Highway"?
A short life but one just as blues guitarist and singer Robert Johnson (dying at 27 ) the importance of what they accomplished in a few years cannot be overstated.
Music historians give Hank Williams credit for writing and performing the first example of what would later become Rock n Roll, a little song he wrote and released in 1947 called Move It On Over. Hank was more known for Country Blues and Honkytonk but had his music covered by many artist out side of country music. Tony Bennett had his first big hit with a song written by Hank Williams. Hank Williams had quite a great influence on the music industry.
@KSO Treat yourself to a Hank Williams "Greatest Hits" box set and listen to one of the greatest of ANY genre. "You Win Again", "Cold. Cold Heart", "Hey Good Lookin'", etc etc......
My Dad loved old yodeling country and western - Hank Williams, Hank Snow, Wilf Carter (Canada's Yodelling Cowboy), as well as Flatt & Scruggs (who did the theme song to the Beverly Hillbillies). To this day I get nostalgic over old country and western music, and have a great appreciation for it.
His voice isn't crying he does yodel in quite of his few songs so it tends to come naturally, this guy pioneered music as we know it today, little did he know he influenced rock too dive deep into his music he was gifted in writing and singing of the heart. Even know his song still live on like a true legend.
never be another song like that...Hank took it with him..good for him
Yeah, actually he was drunk. All we poets, helpless romantics have. It's so nice to see someone of color, and so young appreciate this golden gem of a song. I wish I knew you. Wish I could share with you all the other golden gems since forgotten. May the music set you free, love.
You are really deep into it now, KSO! This is pure Appalachian mountain music. Hank was a true hillbilly, country & western icon. B.J. Thomas (the guy who sings "Raindrops Are Falling on My Head") did a cover of this song that is amazing!
I agree about BJ's cover. He had a beautiful and unique voice of his own. Not just anyone can do a Hank William's song!
well done for reacting to this artist, one of the true greats of country music
Hank could reach into your soul and make it weep.
The best country song ever written.
What a writer 1 he died here in Knoxville on New Years eve on his way to W.Va.
There is no such thing as a bad Hank Williams song. On their own every one of them is peerless but then you add the high lonesome heartbroken voice and you have the miraculous. This is his greatest work. Even God cries when she hears this.
Hank was the King. For decades if you wanted to break into the music world you recorded a Hank Williams song. It was a good chance it would sell if you had any talent.
When Elvis performed this song in the worldwide concert Aloha from Hawaii in 1973 he told the audience it was the saddest song. Hank was the real deal.
Probably the greatest song ever wrote..Period
One of my absolute favorite artists, and I'm 29. His career only lasted about 4 years, but he had the largest impact out of anybody in the genre.
Sad to think of all the other great songs we will never hear, due to his young passing.
Big Hank Williams fan here. When I was a teen, could not tolerate it. Time changed me. He is soooo goood, great
My Dads most favorite singer . He liked what he called that the older country . Country from the 40s and 50s . I was born in 60s and so I grew up with what he called what he called newer country the 60s and 70s and occasional 40s and 50s . If I wanted pop I needed to listen to it in my room . So I grew up well rounded in music . Before I even bought any pop (records it was back then ) I bought two country singles or 45 records . Lynn Anderson I never Promised you a rose garden and Dolly Parton's Coat of many colors . I believe I was 9 when they came out . My first Pop My friends had those records and we listened to them there before I bought any of my own . Those first two favorites at 9 was Joy to the World by the Three dog night and American pie by Don Mclean .
Hank Williams was a big influence on many who followed, including Bob Dylan. I think I read once that he wrote about 1500 songs. Nice reaction.
That man didn't even live 30 years,just imagine if would have lived how much Hank would have done!love his style
"The moon just went, behind the clouds to hide it's face and cry".....pure poetry...
In the pantheon of lyricists, he's on fucking Mt. Rushmore with Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and a player to be named later...
The GREATEST storyteller songwriter that ever drew breath on planet Earth! The sad thing is that to be that good at it, he had to live it.
Hank had a HARD life. But he lived it hard for all of us to see, so maybe we wouldn't have to.
My Dad's favorite, no one quite like Hank. His Luke the Drifter songs are also great. "We're Still Livin" so everythings OK" Great song and we need to think about it today, maybe we would be better off.
Yes baby girl...YES!!!! You gotta close those eyes and just feel it
If you want to hear & see something cool, watch the video of Hank Jr singing with his father Hank Sr. "There's a tear in my beer". Hank died when Hank Jr. Was 3 yrs old(I think). The video is amazing.
Classic country sound. I love his music.
this is REAL country....not the stuff we hear from wannabe rock & rollers posing as "country" artists today
🤠💔 I am so glad that you are doingcountry songs!… They all tell the best stories!… ❤️🙏🏻🇺🇸
The life of traveling and working in bars is a lonely life. His son Junior had a song called Family Tradition. Hank way do you drink?
I love Hank Williams thank you for playing it check out take these chains from my heart by him you'll love it
You should hear Hank's composition in the persona of Luke The Drifter : "Men With Broken Hearts" -- it's a moving narration.
The greatest country singer ever
Hank had some of the best musicians available at the time.
He had a great voice and a short life. If you want to hear something more cheerful by him try Jambalaya on the Bayou Jambalaya on the Bayou - Hank Williams - TH-cam
Dead at 29, Hank Williams was the Immortal Master!
Hank Williams and Woody Guthrie were probably the 2 biggest influences on Bob Dylan, who then influenced almost every major rock artist, starting with the Beatles.
Hank was also central to the development of country music. He was a brilliant songwriter.
Some of his best work was put out under the name "Luke The Drifter"-but have your tissues ready for many of them, he was a man with a lot to say, and said it well, before taking hrs leave of this world at 29 years of age.
A whippoorwill is a bird from the eastern US
Hank is one of the true icons of country music, but what a tragic life he lived. Very sad.
I remember the first time I heard a Whippoorwill.. I was an roughly 12. My parents got into another one of their bad arguments, and my mom started walking down the driveway, with my older sister and carrying my little brother who was a toddler. My dad was standing outside of the house, and I was halfway between them. I didn't want to be walking down the road, so I was going to try to stay. My mom yelled at my dad that I was wanting to stay there. But dad looked at me with a pissed off face, doubled up his fist, and probably said something. Basically signifying to me to get away from him, and that I wasn't staying. So I joined up with mom and my siblings and started walking.
It was in the evening, but it eventually turned into night as we walked. We didn't have anything but ourselves. We walked roughly 3 miles down the dirt road before a guy and a lady in their truck drove by and offered to give us a ride. My mom gave them a fake story about our car being broke down and that we were just going to a random house about a mile down the road. Mom tried to decline the ride offer, but they were insistent. So we jumped in the back, and they dropped us off in front of that house.
We started to continue walking down the road, but the dogs at that house were barking. The owner eventually came out after hearing the commotion and told us to freeze or he'd shoot. Told us to come to him, where he was standing at his driveway gate. He then realized that it was just a woman and 3 kids. Mom gave him the same false story about our vehicle being broke down. He offered to help, but mom was insistent that we didn't need any.
We then continued walking roughly another half mile down the road, and then stopped in a driveway to a field. We sat around and rested for a while. It was dark, and we were in the middle of the woods. It was during that time that I first heard a Whippoorwill repeatedly making it's distinct call into the night.
But to end the story, we somehow got in contact of my grandparents (dad's parents). I can't remember how, since we didn't have a phone. And we had them come and pick us up just off of the highway. We continued to walk roughly another 1.5 miles to get to the highway where they picked us up.
Everytime im drunk I listen to this, I always shed a tear,
Slice of advice. If you listen to Country Music, please make sure you have a Box of Tissues. Listen to "He Didn't Have To Be" or I've Got Your Picture, She's Got You" Yet they also have some funny songs as well.
💔🤠 Poor old cowboy… Died at 29… I love his song jambalaya… goodbye Joe… Me gotta go… me oh my oh… Me gotta go pour the beer oh down the bayou… My Yvonne… The sweetest one…me oh my oh .... Son of a gun will have big fun on the bayou... 💔💔💔💔
My reaction is the same as hers! Those lyrics are DEEP!
Hank died in the year I was born. Hank was born September 17, 1933. I was born September 17, 1953. I figured that somewhere along the way I could learn some Hank Williams songs so I did. Son of a gun we'll have big fun.
It makes me cry. Was my late Dad's favorite.
This was my husband's favorite Hank Williams song.
The best singer songwriter who ever lived just saying
One of my favorites. My Mom used to listen to him - so I have a sweet connection. Takes me back in time. :)
I love his Lovesick Blues!
That’s my favorite
This was before they added drums to country music and I feel it was a mistake. They used the standup bass to keep the beat on cue. Hank Sr was a real great writer,singer.