All of this history is awesome but it's just something about Ole Hank Williams that just haunts me to the core. I just recently found out that Hank had went home to Alabama, said goodbye to all the places he worked as a young kid then left for Ohio. He also told his second wife he saw Jesus coming to get him in a dream 2 nights before he passed. Haunting.
Those were the days..Hank Williams, Webb Pierce , Lefty Frizzell, Earnest Tubb, Hank Snow, Wilf Carter, Carl Smith, Kitty Wells boy amazing time. Great music unbeatable!!
I don't know why (not American, I live in Europe), but there's an all side of Country/Bluegrass that reminds me of Hawaiian Music, probably the era and type of instrumentation. Thank you sharing and have a great New Year! I love Country/Folk in general.
I get what your referring to. I think the steel guitar sound that was used in some country bands sounds like the Hawaiian music that was portrayed in movies. It used the steel guitar and ukulele sound to portray Hawaiian music, but that was all Hollywood's doing.
Milton Brown was the true creator of western swing, not Bob Willis. Bob was in Milton Brown's band the Brownies. His early death from a car accident swung the door wide open for Bob to take the sound and run with it and he did it well!
@@michaelterry4394boy who taught hank to play the guitar? Not a white man. Country was country blues and ragtime and jazz and folk and Appalachian yodeling. It's not a white thing, nor a black thing. Its an amalgamation of the art of the poor working classes of America. Just as much the sound of the bayou and mountain as it is the street corner or ghetto. So I disagree with the statement that country music was started by one race or another. But the contributions of black artists should not be erased.
Just after the war you see a rise in the divorce rates, et That's not much of a surprise... Well,I suspect after the ephemeral rejoicing at the war's end, reality soon came crashing in. Soldiers who suffered from what we now call PTSD, and just general breakdowns from the physical stresses, and injuries that wars produce. Suddenly the guns have stopped but you have changed...the people back home often don't understand the things you've seen...and done. They don't have "the dreams'...well maybe your grandfather might be good to talk to. Your guts are all churning because you're stripped down and fine tuned to react to every little sound or shadow, that reminds you of where you used to be, and sometimes you don't even have to close your eyes to see the guns, smell the sweat and fear, remember how the pounding of your heart competed with the pounding of the guns for space in your chest. You can't take off a war the way you would a suit of every day clothes. War is a complex suit of many layers some that may even be invisible to the wearer. Those layers go right down to your soul.Infinite layers , or at least that's how it seems sometimes. In some ways you feel liked you're "all dressed up with no place to go". You know that if you teach a man to fish, then he can fish for life, but what happens when you teach a man to kill and then you take the war, but not the memories? You had men trying to return to peace time work but not being able to focus, or to start doing things to try and deaden the the mental pain and confusion...well because only weak people break apart after a war.You're supposed to be happy...you came home a war hero. Hoe come you'd don't feel like much of a hero and more of caged rat. Everybody says to pray, or have a drink, or get a hobby or spend more time doing stuff with the family. To honest you don't know if you want to laugh and laugh and laugh until you almost puke at the perversity of it, or if you want to run screaming, or to hit something, or someone, or if you just want it all to stop. Well prayers are not being answered. Your liver is going through formal divorce proceeding and your wife doesn't understand you at all. She wants to believe or at least pretend that everything is just the same, or better than before you went away. Just a guess on my part, but I suspect reality hit hard in so many ways that it put a strain on all sorts of people who couldn't fake the euphoria anymore, but didn't have many helpful avenues to readjusting themselves and the whole of society of the post war world. That's not even the tip of the iceberg. The world changed and not everyone was capable catching the tail of the tempest that was dragging Americans, and everyone else who were touched by the war forward into unknown territory. Honky Tonk comes as no surprise at all . It is the wail of pain, disgust, frustration and sometimes of defiances from a generation who offered their everything, but felt that what the got in return may not have seemed such a good bargain. Just a thought ;)
Women also got a taste of freedom and equality while their men were gone at war. It’s hard to give that up and go back to the kitchen being told what to do.
Where is episode 1? I'm two minutes into episode 2 and they're already taking about "jazz"! I'll keep watching, but I feel like the first episode might have merely "glossed" the first few hundred years of (American) Country Music... I am not DISPUTING the influence of Jazz in the music... It just seems like an odd starting point for the 2nd episode...
You should be able to track down episode 1 th-cam.com/video/B2V8HqgraaQ/w-d-xo.html Episode 2 is focussing on what was going on deep inn the heart of Texas, which was very different from the music of the Grad O' Opry, which features in episode 1.
Because country music is a spiritual expression of the poor white worker-farmer you can't explain it. Only to say that it came from the class of people who built this country whose spirituality can't be expressed in Middle Eastern religions, especially not by someone with a British accent trying to break through on a subject that he underestimates, and doesn't feel for.
So great to see Hank 3 speaking on his grandfather. That young man is criminally underrated as a musician.
All of this history is awesome but it's just something about Ole Hank Williams that just haunts me to the core. I just recently found out that Hank had went home to Alabama, said goodbye to all the places he worked as a young kid then left for Ohio. He also told his second wife he saw Jesus coming to get him in a dream 2 nights before he passed. Haunting.
Those were the days..Hank Williams, Webb Pierce , Lefty Frizzell, Earnest Tubb, Hank Snow, Wilf Carter, Carl Smith, Kitty Wells boy amazing time. Great music unbeatable!!
We had decent paying jobs and healthcare hadn’t begun it’s price gouging!
I love the handsome family
Webb Pierce, the #1 man in country for a decade, gets less than a minute!
I understand, there's never enough time to really tell a story in full length. The solution is books not 30 minute abbreviated history lessons.
I don't know why (not American, I live in Europe), but there's an all side of Country/Bluegrass that reminds me of Hawaiian Music, probably the era and type of instrumentation. Thank you sharing and have a great New Year! I love Country/Folk in general.
I get what your referring to. I think the steel guitar sound that was used in some country bands sounds like the Hawaiian music that was portrayed in movies. It used the steel guitar and ukulele sound to portray Hawaiian music, but that was all Hollywood's doing.
Very useful for my Music in America Class. Thanks
Milton Brown was the true creator of western swing, not Bob Willis. Bob was in Milton Brown's band the Brownies. His early death from a car accident swung the door wide open for Bob to take the sound and run with it and he did it well!
6:20, Don Helms on steel guitar. Where would Hank be without him?
Love this history! Thank you!⚘👍🏼
The commentator in the blue shirt sure has something interesting going on with his eyebrows...like one is a step-brother or something..
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Black people started country music
Could you elaborate or splaine yourself! Me thinks you are incorrect!
@@michaelterry4394boy who taught hank to play the guitar? Not a white man. Country was country blues and ragtime and jazz and folk and Appalachian yodeling. It's not a white thing, nor a black thing. Its an amalgamation of the art of the poor working classes of America. Just as much the sound of the bayou and mountain as it is the street corner or ghetto.
So I disagree with the statement that country music was started by one race or another. But the contributions of black artists should not be erased.
@@Johnny-mp2ew ok ! Good explanation! I accept,
Only 2 kinds of music Good and Bad Lol
@@Johnny-mp2ew and who do you think taught the black teacher how to teach? 😂
Just after the war you see a rise in the divorce rates, et That's not much of a surprise... Well,I suspect after the ephemeral rejoicing at the war's end, reality soon came crashing in. Soldiers who suffered from what we now call PTSD, and just general breakdowns from the physical stresses, and injuries that wars produce. Suddenly the guns have stopped but you have changed...the people back home often don't understand the things you've seen...and done. They don't have "the dreams'...well maybe your grandfather might be good to talk to. Your guts are all churning because you're stripped down and fine tuned to react to every little sound or shadow, that reminds you of where you used to be, and sometimes you don't even have to close your eyes to see the guns, smell the sweat and fear, remember how the pounding of your heart competed with the pounding of the guns for space in your chest. You can't take off a war the way you would a suit of every day clothes. War is a complex suit of many layers some that may even be invisible to the wearer. Those layers go right down to your soul.Infinite layers , or at least that's how it seems sometimes. In some ways you feel liked you're "all dressed up with no place to go". You know that if you teach a man to fish, then he can fish for life, but what happens when you teach a man to kill and then you take the war, but not the memories? You had men trying to return to peace time work but not being able to focus, or to start doing things to try and deaden the the mental pain and confusion...well because only weak people break apart after a war.You're supposed to be happy...you came home a war hero. Hoe come you'd don't feel like much of a hero and more of caged rat. Everybody says to pray, or have a drink, or get a hobby or spend more time doing stuff with the family. To honest you don't know if you want to laugh and laugh and laugh until you almost puke at the perversity of it, or if you want to run screaming, or to hit something, or someone, or if you just want it all to stop. Well prayers are not being answered. Your liver is going through formal divorce proceeding and your wife doesn't understand you at all. She wants to believe or at least pretend that everything is just the same, or better than before you went away. Just a guess on my part, but I suspect reality hit hard in so many ways that it put a strain on all sorts of people who couldn't fake the euphoria anymore, but didn't have many helpful avenues to readjusting themselves and the whole of society of the post war world. That's not even the tip of the iceberg. The world changed and not everyone was capable catching the tail of the tempest that was dragging Americans, and everyone else who were touched by the war forward into unknown territory. Honky Tonk comes as no surprise at all . It is the wail of pain, disgust, frustration and sometimes of defiances from a generation who offered their everything, but felt that what the got in return may not have seemed such a good bargain. Just a thought ;)
Women also got a taste of freedom and equality while their men were gone at war. It’s hard to give that up and go back to the kitchen being told what to do.
Eloquently written !!
I felt that.
Part 3?
I have a demo record produced in 1946..by Bob wells..looking to find out more about it any suggestions who to contact..
does anybody know whether it would be possible to find somehow the entire version of that live "it wasn't god who made..." by Kitty Wells in 10:15 ?
Hiroki Mamine Hi, in regards to Kitty Wells's song, I would like to share a link to you with the full song
th-cam.com/video/5KDmVAX134o/w-d-xo.html
So hank Williams is tupac
Back in those days, yes, he was very similar. Except he didn't get murdered, just OD'ed on pills and alcohol mixture.
Man was as hard living as he looked.
Do you by any chance have part 3?
Public library
Hank III is one strange looking dude.
What is the song on 11:37 in the video
Kiev is not in Russia
Where is episode 1? I'm two minutes into episode 2 and they're already taking about "jazz"! I'll keep watching, but I feel like the first episode might have merely "glossed" the first few hundred years of (American) Country Music...
I am not DISPUTING the influence of Jazz in the music... It just seems like an odd starting point for the 2nd episode...
You should be able to track down episode 1 th-cam.com/video/B2V8HqgraaQ/w-d-xo.html
Episode 2 is focussing on what was going on deep inn the heart of Texas, which was very different from the music of the Grad O' Opry, which features in episode 1.
corporalhenshaw thank you sir! As someone relatively new to the internet, I appreciate the help.
@@corporalhenshaw hey I've been watching these up to de 5th one. I was wondering if they're in the correct order?
Because country music is a spiritual expression of the poor white worker-farmer you can't explain it. Only to say that it came from the class of people who built this country
whose spirituality can't be expressed in Middle Eastern religions, especially not by someone with a British accent trying to break through on a subject that he underestimates,
and doesn't feel for.
The deep Roots?