Hank Williams
The 19th Annual New Year’s Hank-O-Rama, A Honky Tonk Tradition Continues on New Year’s Day
more than 30 of Hank’s hits and rarities
The 1,001 Greatest Songs of the 20th Century – 40 to 31
the prayer of the backslider
The 1,001 Greatest Songs of the 20th Century – 230 to 221
Hank’s declaration of defeat/disgust
The 500 Greatest Songs of the 1950s: 100 – 91
Walking can be hazardous to your health
Ken Burns: Country Music, Episode 3, “The Hillbilly Shakespeare (1945 – 1953)”
the country artist everyone is required to like
Honky Tonkin’: A Short Story
When you are sad and lonely and have nowhere to go…
Hank Williams And The Big Huerta Know Men With Broken Hearts
Just touching on the life of Luke the Drifter
Country Music History – Essential Recordings of 1952, Part II
Hank, Hank, Hank, and Hank
Country Music History – Essential Recordings of 1950, Part II
His confidence and enthusiasm as a singer are at his peak.
Country Music History – Essential Recordings from 1949
Hank Williams skyrocketed to stardom in 1949
Country Music History – Essential Recordings from 1947 and 1948
World War II and his own battles with the bottle delayed his success
The 99 Best Country Songs of the 1900s
This is a primer for all country friends and wannabe country fans out there. You don’t know where to start on your country collection, start in the 20th Century and start here
The 30 Greatest Country Songs of the 1950s
The Board of Directors at rock nyc typically restricts these lists to 25 songs, but I pushed this list to thirty so I wouldn’t have to artificially limit the number of Hank Williams entries. I have enough to explain to St. Peter without adding that oversight to my resume. OK, let’s start drinking and cheating, 1950s style.
Here It Is: The A+ List – The Single Best Song By The Biggest Artists!!!
Substitute – The Who – Before all the heaviness of Tommy or even A Quick One, or even “My Generation”, there was the distilled fury of this teenage misogy and displacement. Freud would have a lot to say.
Hear Ye On Spotify: what rock nyc is listening to 10-3-13
Used To You – Lyn Bowtell – An inspired rip of “Brilliant Disguise” and it won’t be dropping till early 2014, but get ready because this is one brilliant country-folk ballad by a woman who should try her hand at rock and roll – A