ATTN: Hank Williams Fans

Subject: ATTN: HANK WILLIAMS FANS
From: Gene
Date: 04 Jan 00 - 12:00 AM

Tribute to Hank Williams Sr.,
Sunday, Jan. 9th (Noon til 3pm).

Steve Gardner - Topsoil:
A Century of Twang - Sun. 12-3pm

WXDU 88.7FM Durham, NC

and on the Net at:

www.wxdu.duke.edu

Check previous post-
* Hank Williams Tribute - January 4th, 2000 *

Subject: RE: ATTN: HANK WILLIAMS FANS
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 04 Jan 00 - 12:34 AM

Thanks Gene. I'll try to tune in!

Subject: RE: ATTN: HANK WILLIAMS FANS
From:
Date: 04 Jan 00 - 09:54 AM

I'm sorry, but Hank Williams "Sr." implies that there exists a "Jr.", a concept that I have trouble accepting. If it is true, it proves once and for all that talent, even genius, does not get passed down to progeny, at least not all in one gene. I think more likely his father is Jerry Lee Lewis.

Chet

Subject: RE: ATTN: HANK WILLIAMS FANS
From: Mbo
Date: 04 Jan 00 - 11:07 AM

Chet, please don't dis Hank Williams Jr. I love him, and his music was always on the record player during the first 7 years of my life. I grew up with both Sr. & Jr. and think both were very talented.

--Mbo

Subject: RE: ATTN: HANK WILLIAMS FANS
From: Danlbear
Date: 04 Jan 00 - 11:12 AM

Wasn't he a drummer for the Greatful Dead??

Subject: RE: ATTN: HANK WILLIAMS FANS
From: lloyd61
Date: 04 Jan 00 - 11:34 AM

Come on Guys, lay off Jr. He has had enough problems being the son of the great Hank Williams. I remember the night Sr. died, I was laying in bed with a crystal set radio when the news came over the wire. As a teenager, he was my idle, I cried. I will never forget that night.

Not to long ago I went to a JR. Concert, yes me and 2,00 young gas station attendants. The best part of the concert was when he came to the front of the stage all be himself, sat on a stool and did several of his fathers songs. JR has had to find his own way, and that was not easy for him. I keep Hank SR CD's and JR CD's right along side my Jerry Garcia CD's.

Subject: RE: ATTN: HANK WILLIAMS FANS
From: Danlbear
Date: 04 Jan 00 - 11:36 AM

Subject: RE: ATTN: HANK WILLIAMS FANS
From: Danlbear
Date: 04 Jan 00 - 11:39 AM

Jerry who???

Subject: RE: ATTN: HANK WILLIAMS FANS
From: JenEllen
Date: 04 Jan 00 - 06:49 PM

Boys, play nice. I'm not a junior fan myself, but let the poor guy try and make a living. I do appreciate the info Gene, love to hear a little high lonesome on the radio. Any other good stuff, you be sure and let us know! Elle

Subject: RE: ATTN: HANK WILLIAMS FANS
From: Metchosin
Date: 05 Jan 00 - 02:45 AM

Another fan of real C&W here Gene, I thank you too, and at least Jr. didn't sing Achy Breaky Heart....... yuk...... I don't think........and if Patsy could see and hear the cooky cutter women now, do you think she'd roll over?

Subject: RE: ATTN: HANK WILLIAMS FANS
From: Mbo
Date: 05 Jan 00 - 11:55 AM

I liked "Achy-Breaky Heart"! And am a fan of Billy Ray Cyrus. I wish more people would do music like him. "Could Have Been Me" "Some Gave All" "The Heart Of A Woman" and "Words By Heart" are some of the best country songs ever written, and are especiallt enjoyed by my sister and I. Around here, most folks are old-timers who wish country music was Ernest Tubb and Lefty Frizzell again. They don't leave room for some of us youngster who grew up with 80's and 90's country, and like it. Though I have fallen out with country music lately--it's all pretty much stupid--the last good year was '95 and the best was '92. So please don't be mean to newer music, I'm not mean to the older stuff!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: ATTN: HANK WILLIAMS FANS
From: MandolinPaul
Date: 05 Jan 00 - 12:12 PM

MBO: Please tell me you're joking. You MUST be joking! Aren't you?

Paul

Subject: RE: ATTN: HANK WILLIAMS FANS
From: flattop guit-fiddle
Date: 05 Jan 00 - 12:27 PM

I think people like billy ray, garth brooks, and any of these other pop stars looking to take your honest buck to pay for their bright lights and smoke and lazers at their shows discrace the title "Country". You need to find the roots because that's what holds the tree. smoke a joint or drink a beer and lay down some Hank Williams Sr., or Monroe Brothers, Or Lilly Brothers, or Carter family,or Dock boggs. You can even get up into Norman blake or Dock Watson, or some of these others today who know their roots and what the music is. Sorry if I come off as mean but it's the honest truth.

Subject: RE: ATTN: HANK WILLIAMS FANS
From: MandolinPaul
Date: 05 Jan 00 - 12:35 PM

All joking aside, yep, I hate new country. But, I guess we shouldn't be tromping on those who do like it. I mean, a lot of people DO like it, so it must have some value.

I think that the reason a lot of people hate it so much (apart from the fact that it sucks), is that the term "Country" is used to describe it. Although I also hate rap music, it doesn't claim to be a replacement of a music that I love; it is something new.

...or maybe new country just sucks.

Now, back on topic, I didn't see this thread until today. Does anyone know if there is an archive of this show someplace; I'd love to hear it.

Paul.

Subject: RE: ATTN: HANK WILLIAMS FANS
From: Mbo
Date: 05 Jan 00 - 12:49 PM

Paul, I'm really telling the truth, want me to sing it? As for modern country music--y'know I don't give a dingo's kidney about images and lights and concerts--I like music! The way someone chooses the arrange or sing or perform their music isn't going to sway me. Around here it's like--"modern 'popular' music isn't like the traditional stuff--so let's hate it." I don't really care. If it's good music, I'm going to like it. I enjoy the British band Radiohead, who are extremely avante-garde alternative rock. But they create beautiful music, and just because they aren't Bill Haley and the Comets is no reason not to like them. I also like bands like Shooglenifty, Burach, AfroCelt Sound System, Ashley MacIssac, and Paul Mounsey. They are progressive music, and lots of people hate them too. But like I said, I'm a music lover and therefor love music across a wide spectrum. Some people who like certain kinds of music are expected to hate others, classic duels like rock vs country, country vs classical, rock vs classical, folk vs rock, etc. but I like them ALL! Understanding is all I ask for. Sometimes I think it's easier for young people to enjoy music of the present, and to look back and enjoy music of the past. It seems harder for people who liked their modern music, and dislike anything that came after. I think if I add the old to the new, and the new to the old, I can create music for my future. I don't want to stay in one time period and play nothing but that music, never evolving, and disliking those who do evolve. I'm sure all the people who first originated those old traditional songs and tunes would probably hate you for ruining THEIR music too. So as Alan Stivell says "UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER!"

--Mbo (don't dis good music anymore, or my heart might blow up and kill this man!)

Subject: RE: ATTN: HANK WILLIAMS FANS
From: Mbo
Date: 05 Jan 00 - 12:52 PM

BTW I don't like Shania Twain!

--Mbo

Subject: RE: ATTN: HANK WILLIAMS FANS
From: MandolinPaul
Date: 05 Jan 00 - 01:20 PM

There's some hope for you.

Paul

Subject: RE: ATTN: HANK WILLIAMS FANS
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 05 Jan 00 - 01:48 PM

Well, hell, what chance did Bocephus have? He's written some pretty good tunes. He's not the man his Daddy was, but then who is? I am also a fan of older country (Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, Hank Snow,Patsy Cline, Louvin Bros, Earl Monroe), but there are a lot of newer artists I admire, including Steve Earl and Dwight Yoakam. I also am a fan of the many artists who modified Country music (for better or worse) into the New Country it has become- Gram Parsons and Emmy Lou Harris, the Clarence White-era Byrds, The Flying Burritos, Poco, etc.Unfortunately, most of the grit of early country has been polished out by the Big Nashville Producers and record labels. But anyway, I believe Hank was the greatest Tunesmith of them all, with Haggard just a skosh behind him.

LEJ

Subject: RE: ATTN: HANK WILLIAMS FANS
From: JenEllen
Date: 05 Jan 00 - 04:42 PM

Newer Country is okay in a few spots. Some of the folks have paid their dues. I dearly love Ricky Scaggs and Marty Stuart's bluegrass stuff. EmmyLou and Nanci Griffith's 80's stuff is good. Instead of the cookie cutter thing, they've improved on the sound.

Subject: RE: ATTN: HANK WILLIAMS FANS
From: Mbo
Date: 05 Jan 00 - 05:09 PM

There you go! Marty Stuart's album "This One's Gonna Hurt You" is a most excellent album. When we were in Okinawa, we'd listen to it at least twice a week, along with Aaron Tippin's "Call of The Wild." Ahhh...back in the good old early 90's, when country music was still good...I miss Doug Stone! BTW Marty's album "Tempted" is also a very good album. My current favorite country artist is Blackhawk, who simply have the best harmony in country today, and some darn good songs, too. "Your blues may be gray, your less might be more, your window to the world might be your own front door, your shiniest day may come in the middle of the night...that's just about right!"

--Mbo

Subject: RE: ATTN: HANK WILLIAMS FANS
From: JenEllen
Date: 05 Jan 00 - 09:37 PM

Sorry Mbo, I was talking EARLY Marty Stuart. Like Lester Flatt band days, when he was 15 years old, in his little polyester bell bottoms shouting out "Dim Lights, Thick Smoke, and Loud, Loud Music".....Elle

Subject: RE: ATTN: HANK WILLIAMS FANS
From: Allan S.
Date: 06 Jan 00 - 10:06 AM

Bah Humbug. Good Music ended in the 1950's. Good old WWVA in West Va. Selling 400 baby chicks, or Genyouine Granite Composit Tomb stones by mail. Those were the good old days For this old fart. Give me the Carter family any time. Well at least The New Lost City Ramblers

Subject: Lyr Add: SEND IN YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS (Jones)
From: Gene
Date: 06 Jan 00 - 12:04 PM

Ah! The good old days in late 40's and the 50's-- XEG; XELO; XERF--WCKY; WLS; WWL; WOAI; WWVA; etc.


SEND IN YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS
As recorded by Grandpa Jones, 1951.

Now me, I like good music, the kind that makes you sing--
Just plain old country music; it beats most anything.
So I switched on my radio to hear the latest hit.
After every record, this is what I get:

Send in your name and address; it's a dollar ninety-eight.
Just pay it to the postman at this very special rate.
A dancin' doll and Hadacol,
And tulip bulbs, both big and small.
Send in your name and address; it's a dollar ninety-eight.

Send in your name and address; it's a dollar ninety-eight.
Just pay it to the postman at this very special rate.
Anti-freeze and honey bees,
A compound known as Lydia-Ease,
Humidors and cuspidors,
And special wax for bathroom floors.
Send in your name and address; it's a dollar ninety-eight.

Don't send in your money, but order right away.
This offer's only good in continental U. S. A.

Send in your name and address; it's a dollar ninety-eight.
Just pay it to the postman at this very special rate.
Mixin' bowls and rubber soles,
And wire or glass that comes in rolls.
Famous little liver pills,
Guaranteed to cure your ills.
Pots and pans, electric fans,
And family insurance plans.
Send in your name and address and a dollar ninety-eight.

Send in your name and address; it's a dollar ninety-eight.
Just pay it to the postman at this very special rate.
A weather vane, an air-o-plane,
An' books on how to entertain.
Cowboy boots, a gun that shoots,
An' Honolulu'r bathing suits.
A book of tricks and baby chicks,
And how to figger arithmetic.
A powder for mosquit'er itch,
A foolproof plan to make you rich,
Auto gaskets, laundry baskets
And the latest thing in fur-lined caskets.
Send in your name and address; it's a dollar ninety-eight.

Don't send in your money, but order right away.
This offer's only good in continental U. S. A.

Send in your name and address; it's a dollar ninety-eight.
Just pay it to the postman at this very special rate.
Fishin' hooks an' doctor books,
An' new hillbilly picture books.
Autographs an' toy giraffes,
And albums for your photographs.
Plastic cars an' Christmas stars,
An' fruit an' jelly cannin' jars.
How to sew and Vigoro,
And statues in the dark that glow.
Carpet tacks and bric-a-bracs,
And books that figger income tax.
Arthur Godfrey's ukuleles,
And pretty plastic green shillelaghs.
Send in your name and address; it's a dollar ninety-eight.

Don't send in your money, but order right away.
This offer's only good in continental U. S. A.

Subject: RE: ATTN: HANK WILLIAMS FANS
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 06 Jan 00 - 01:06 PM

Gawd, Embo, how'd you find time in your young life to jam in so much music? I probably have fewer than a hundred CDs, a few dozen of which I play over and over, and make tapes of for the car. My wife has maybe an equal number of classics, with which she does the same. We have a couple hundred or so vinyl lps that I get to only when I want to tape something or look up a song. I'll admit that there are hundreds more CDs that I would like to own, but how much play time would they get? I've got Corky Siegal's "Chamber Blues" on my CD, Art Thieme's "Lies" in the tape deck, Rick Fielding's latest CD in my clock radio--it's been this way for a couple of weeks. Maybe next week I'll put Dwight Diller back in someplace, I have a Sonny and Brownie CD I haven't listened to yet (and a few of their lps untouched for years). Things move slowly here on the shores of Lake Whoa-there...

--seed

Subject: RE: ATTN: HANK WILLIAMS FANS
From: Allan S.
Date: 06 Jan 00 - 07:24 PM

Gene, Thanks for those memories of WWVA. When I was in the College of Agriculture U-Conn It was quite the Joke to send a Tomb Stone Collect to some one you did not like. Actually they did have 100 Baby chicks for $4:98 plus postage. WE sent them to our house mother. What was interestering was the advert. For the chicks It was stated that they were all tested for Polurium Sp.? that was a disease which could infect an entire flock. I remember our poultry Prof. telling us that they were tested, BUT it did not say if they were infected or not. Ah deception in advertising.

Nothing like The Golden Rocket, Hawkinshaw Hawkins, String Bean. Etc. THere all up there playng in the heavenly band Just remember "OLD WAYS ARE BEST"

Subject: RE: ATTN: HANK WILLIAMS FANS
From: MarkS
Date: 07 Jan 00 - 07:06 PM

Of course there has not been good country music since Dolly Parton broke up with Porter Wagoner.

"There's a picture that I carry......" etc.

Subject: RE: ATTN: HANK WILLIAMS FANS
From: GUEST,Thanks, Hank
Date: 17 Sep 07 - 05:33 PM

No birthday thread for Hank? I guess this comes closest.

Said on the radio today it's his birthday. The link below goes to an interesting site. All 4 episodes of a radio program he did. 12-minute segments.

http://www.archive.org/details/The_Health_And_Happiness_Show

Subject: RE: ATTN: Hank Williams Fans
From: Beer
Date: 17 Sep 07 - 06:05 PM

That was a real treat. Thanks for posting it.
Beer (adrien)

Subject: RE: ATTN: Hank Williams Fans
From: GUEST,Thanks, Hank.
Date: 17 Sep 07 - 06:13 PM

Why, you're most welcome. Leonard Cohen said Hank Wms was a hundred floors above him in the Tower of Song. Or was it a thousand?

There's a movie called "The Night Hank Williams Died." Forget who's in it--could be an actor named Snuffy something or other. Saw it years ago and did a bit of research, and the actor used to do the play of the same name as a touring show. Sounded like he was channeling Hank Wms in the movie, so I imagine it was a spooky experience in a playhouse. Drunk, maudlin & inspired. May be the best musical biopic type movie I ever saw.

Subject: RE: ATTN: Hank Williams Fans
From: Beer
Date: 17 Sep 07 - 07:25 PM

His name is "Sneezy Waters" and if you Google him you will find tons of information.

Subject: RE: ATTN: Hank Williams Fans
From: GUEST,Thanks, Hank
Date: 17 Sep 07 - 08:12 PM

Well, I only got the name of the actor and the name of the movie wrong. lol. Thanks. I know someone who saw the play and later told me about the movie.

http://www.amazon.com/Hank-William-Show-Never-Gave/dp/630256042X

The Amazon listing. Lots of good scenes in the movie. I liked the part where he was a bit along on his bottle and forgot where he was, and when it came time to go back onstage they found him swapping guitar licks with the janitor. He was belligerent going back on, then he broke down, mewled a while, sang a gut-wrencher and the audience forgave everything. They knew he was on his last legs. Sneezy Waters. I swear that's one of the best film performances I've ever seen.

Subject: RE: ATTN: Hank Williams Fans
From: Ebbie
Date: 18 Sep 07 - 03:33 PM

It would be hard to validate the position that Hank Jr. is not the son of Hank Williams, given the existence of Hank III.

Not that I think Hank III will make old bones.