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A previously unissued version by Hank Williams, Jr. recorded in 1973 appears on the 1992 box set Living Proof: The MGM Recordings 1963–1975. Hank Jr. released another version on his 1982 LP High Notes, hitting #1 on the Billboard country music charts and staying there for a week. It spent a total of twelve weeks on the country chart.
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 ...
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 ...
Hank Williams Jr. and Alan Jackson are still some of the biggest names in the country game, and have influenced so many young artists over the years. Anyone who listens to their music can gather ...
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 ]
"Long Gone Lonesome Blues" is quite similar in form and style to Williams' previous number-one hit "Lovesick Blues".Biographer Colin Escott speculates that Hank deliberately utilized the similar title, tempo, and yodels because, although he had scored five top-5 hits since "Lovesick Blues" had topped the charts, he had not had another number one. [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: As Escott notes: The coupling of "Fly Trouble" and "On the Banks of the Old Ponchartrain" flopped miserably, and in later years Hank would use it as a personal metaphor for a poor selling record.
"I'm a Long Gone Daddy" laid the blueprint for what would become the typical Williams A-side: an up-tempo honky tonk song in the Ernest Tubb tradition with a bluesy edge. [citation needed] The song was recorded in anticipation of a recording ban that would result from the American Federation of Musicians possibly calling a strike at the end of December when agreements with all the record ...