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Williams was backed by Tommy Jackson (fiddle), Hermon Herron (steel guitar), Sammy Pruett (lead guitar), Slim Thomas (rhythm guitar), and Lum York (bass). [4] Hank had scored his first Billboard hit with "Move It on Over" but "On the Banks of the Old Ponchartrain" bombed. As Escott notes:
In addition, Williams originally had a couplet mentioning a Ford automobile ("Me an' my baby, we got a Ford/Now we change the gears from the running board") and Rose demanded that, if Williams did record it, the reference be dropped because if Hank endorsed Ford, "then deejays sponsored by GM, Chrysler, and Studebaker wouldn't spin his record."
Homesick (lyrics by Williams; music composed by Hank Williams, Jr.) Honey, Do You Love Me, Huh? (co-written with Curley Williams) Honky Tonk Blues; Honky Tonkin' How Can You Refuse Him Now; How Many Times Have You Broken My Heart? (lyrics by Williams, recorded by Gillian Welch and Norah Jones for The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams) Howlin' at ...
Their son, Randall Hank Williams (now known as Hank Williams Jr.), was born on May 26, 1949. [94] The marriage was always turbulent and rapidly disintegrated, [ 95 ] and Williams developed serious problems with alcohol, morphine, and other painkillers prescribed for him to ease the severe back pain caused by his spina bifida occulta . [ 96 ]
Hank Williams formed the original Drifting Cowboys band between 1937 and 1938 in Montgomery, Alabama. The name was derived from Williams' love of Western films, with him and the band wearing cowboy hats and boots. [2] The original line-up consisted of Braxton Schuffert (guitar), Freddie Beach (fiddle), and the comedian Smith "Hezzy" Adair.
Like his previous hits "You're Gonna Change (Or I'm Gonna Leave)" and "I Just Don't Like This Kind of Living", "Why Don't You Love Me" was likely inspired by Hank's turbulent relationship with his wife Audrey Williams. However, the song is more lighthearted in nature, with the narrator admonishing himself ("I'm the same old trouble you've ...
History might decide that Hank Williams was the finest writer and singer of 'heart' songs in all country music, but that wasn't what radio and jukebox audiences wanted in 1950." [ 4 ] Kentucky historian W. Lynn Nickell asserted in 2012 that Paul Gilley was responsible for the lyrics to "They'll Never Take Her Love from Me," as well as several ...
"Honky Tonk Blues" is one of the songs that Williams had the most trouble recording. According to Colin Escott's 2004 Williams memoir, Hank and producer Fred Rose had attempted to record the song several times previously: in August 1947 (the session that produced the novelty "Fly Trouble"); in March 1949 (this version featured a light, jazzy feel and an intricate solo from guitarist Zeb Turner ...