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  • @TenThumbsProductions
    @TenThumbsProductions 2 года назад +949

    Hank Sr. IS country music. When you hear country music today… cliches over trap beats, it is a disgrace compared to what it used to be. Long live the king, Hank Williams!

    • @sethk1698
      @sethk1698 2 года назад +35

      Wish everyone felt like this! 💯

    • @danielchilton6881
      @danielchilton6881 2 года назад +18

      It's really sad. You have Hank, a bumpkin from outside Montgomery with such a rich and deep catalogue and dead at 27. And then the ones who piggy backed him to create Nashville. People like dolly and Willie. And obviously, I'd never shit on dolly or Willie. But THEIR nepotism is what gave us modern country and the gawdy monstrosity that is modern Nashville. So instead of artists following the footsteps of bill Monroe and doc Watson, we got Billy ray and Hank Jr. It's okay, country is making its revival.

    • @MrStickypow
      @MrStickypow 2 года назад +17

      I've always called it Pop music with a southern accent.

    • @byronmoore3892
      @byronmoore3892 2 года назад +22

      Hank Williams is the king everywhere except for Texas. I heard once you're down in Texas
      Bob Wills is still the king.

    • @victorwilburn8588
      @victorwilburn8588 2 года назад +2

      @@MrStickypow: I call it twangy pop.

  • @victorwilburn8588
    @victorwilburn8588 2 года назад +172

    One of the greatest expressions of sad loneliness ever written. "He sounds too blue to fly." Every line a dagger.

    • @darrellwhite4358
      @darrellwhite4358 2 года назад +6

      Anyone that has ever gone through a divorce and is alone now can relate to this song by Hank, as well as many others he wrote and sang!

  • @livewithnick
    @livewithnick 2 года назад +117

    There’s no denying the blues influence of Hank Sr songs. Hank died at 29 years old in the back of a Cadillac traveling to a New Years Eve show. Hank literally lived the songs he sang.

    • @charlesabbott5563
      @charlesabbott5563 2 года назад +1

      Sir he died on New Years day 1953 in Oak Hill WV.

    • @larrysmith5597
      @larrysmith5597 2 года назад

      He was 34 Year Old my friend

    • @thomashan4963
      @thomashan4963 2 года назад

      Well at least a country boy couldn’t survive

    • @williamhughes9704
      @williamhughes9704 2 года назад +3

      I spent time with his wife Billie jean..after Hank died she married johnny Horton

    • @RossM3838
      @RossM3838 2 года назад +8

      Hanks music teacher was a delta blues musician named Rufus Payne Everything he did was influenced by the delta blues

  • @louiestinson8979
    @louiestinson8979 2 года назад +93

    i love that fact that you give loving recognition to any type of music. music is music and there are all types . good music hits the soul no matter the type.

    • @DachsieMom75
      @DachsieMom75 2 года назад +4

      Music 🎶 is the universal language.

  • @chadengels2625
    @chadengels2625 2 года назад +377

    “The silence of a falling star, lights up a purple sky, and as I wonder where you are, I’m so lonesome I could cry”. It doesn’t even need music to cut you right to the soul. This is Poetry of the highest form. It’s no wonder he was called the Hillbilly Shakespeare. If someone never heard country music before and asked you what it was, simply play this song and no better answer can be given.

    • @lauraowen8142
      @lauraowen8142 2 года назад +9

      INDEED, AMEN❣️

    • @ritamccartt-kordon283
      @ritamccartt-kordon283 2 года назад +9

      Beautifully said.

    • @ty9884
      @ty9884 2 года назад +9

      It's hard to choose, but this is my favorite of his songs. I'm from Alabama -- same town Hank grew up in. The sky here at twilight is sometimes purple. I've been told it's the dust from the nearby fields. It probably contributes to my allergies, but it's beautiful, and I have never seen it anywhere else.

    • @jeannettebodden2612
      @jeannettebodden2612 2 года назад +6

      And in Prattville AL (outside of Montgomery) you get pink sunsets over by the papermills.

    • @dianemiller8969
      @dianemiller8969 2 года назад +3

      Yes, I so agree with you Chad!!!

  • @caronleatherwood7196
    @caronleatherwood7196 2 года назад +284

    He was my Mother's absolute favorite. I remember at age 4 running into the kitchen and telling her the man on the radio said that Hank Williams had died. She dropped everything and went to listen. She broke down crying.

    • @mykalgambullmusic5520
      @mykalgambullmusic5520 2 года назад +15

      I'm crying reading your tribute. Hank was my dads favorite too.
      👊❤

    • @webbtrekker534
      @webbtrekker534 2 года назад +6

      I was 7 years old. Only later did I realize what a loss it was.

  • @BigLewBBQ
    @BigLewBBQ 2 года назад +35

    After my wife passed away, I listened to the song a lot almost daily for the first year.
    Once you know lonesomeness, you fully comprehend this song.

    • @gtw1970
      @gtw1970 Год назад +2

      I lost my wife on July 19, 2022. Jan 18th was my first birthday without her. I play this song.

    • @BigLewBBQ
      @BigLewBBQ Год назад

      @@gtw1970 I know your pain. It’s tough. Life is getting better now for me. Ecclesiastes 3:4- A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance.
      Take this time to weep and mourn. Eventually you will learn to laugh and dance again. I have. I still miss her and always will. But I am now looking out the windshield to see where I’m going, and not the rear view mirror looking at where I’ve been.
      BTW “gtw1970” if 1970 is your birth year you and I are the same age.

    • @wileydr
      @wileydr Год назад +2

      I too lost my wife in 2015. I still have this song on a cd in the truck. Play it all the time.

  • @henrymyrickjr.6572
    @henrymyrickjr.6572 2 года назад +43

    Hank Williams music is some of the most pure music you'll ever hear there wasn't a lot of studio gimmicks and excessive production in those days. Every instrument was unadulterated and his voice truly came straight out of his soul. His life was fairly short but his influence in music isn't matched by many. His impact will always be felt

    • @marie-floreddy667
      @marie-floreddy667 2 года назад +1

      Did Hank also not sung "Long Gone Lonesome Blues" remember uncle playing it in his Vinyl Master's Voice gramophone!!! Yess

  • @katrinalewis802
    @katrinalewis802 2 года назад +192

    I love that you love this song. You're right, "this is music" and yes it's haunting.

    • @bsharrard8652
      @bsharrard8652 2 года назад

      You should follow up with his son and grandson! The whole family has an erie understanding of music

    • @junebeen5795
      @junebeen5795 2 года назад +1

      Haunting, yet peaceful. Sad, but uplifting. True poetry. I'm not a country music fan, but Hank Senior is the man! Wish I knew you.

    • @stillinfamous
      @stillinfamous 2 года назад

      @@bsharrard8652 True! Country hero's by Hank Williams III is truly haunting.

  • @joshualeonard9702
    @joshualeonard9702 2 года назад +78

    There’s a reason they called him the Hillbilly Shakespeare. “The silence of a falling star lights up a purple sky” is my favorite line of any song ever.

  • @jondoe4667
    @jondoe4667 2 года назад +72

    There's something about the fiddle that can really make me feel the emotion in a song. I love it. 👍🇺🇲

    • @stancornett1038
      @stancornett1038 2 года назад +3

      There was a harmonica solo in there that he mistook for a fiddle a good harmonica player can make it sound almost like a fiddle. But if you listen closely you can hear the wood wind as the player breath moved over it. I love harmonica music . I love the duel between the fiddle and the harmonica on a true rendition of foggy mountain breakdown.

    • @frankenz66
      @frankenz66 2 года назад

      From the Soul to the fingers.

    • @JP-qx2bj
      @JP-qx2bj 2 года назад

      Yes the harmonica is great but every one seems to forget the steel guitar.

    • @susanwilson6397
      @susanwilson6397 2 года назад

      Pair is with steel guitar...sound is liquid gold

    • @wildbill7081
      @wildbill7081 Год назад

      @@stancornett1038 your soooo right I have played around with the harmonica since the 70's but never could make it sound as good as in this great song

  • @drewlbers
    @drewlbers 2 года назад +4

    Hank sr will always be the greatest of the bunch

  • @TylerBunchanumbers
    @TylerBunchanumbers 2 года назад +251

    If a heart breaks, and there's no one there to hear it. Does it make a sound?
    Answer: Yes. It sounds like this.

    • @fatooshtkd
      @fatooshtkd 2 года назад +7

      So well said, thank you sir

    • @chrisk9911
      @chrisk9911 2 года назад +5

      I 100% agree with Lorrie, so perfectly said!

    • @chickadeetle
      @chickadeetle 2 года назад +5

      BEAUTIFUL--I clearly remember hearing this song for the first time ever at the age of 13 at a new friend's house. Her family listened to country music. My mom listened to crooners like Frank Sinatra, pop, easy listening. My father died a few years earlier and it was like I was orphaned, since my mom was not mentally, emotionally present for a long time after and we had no other family near to help or talk to. I felt this song was me speaking, giving voice to my feelings which I hadn't been able to do. I hadn't talked to anyone about how abandoned and alone I felt. It made me realize I wasn't the only person in the world who felt so lonely inside. I was sold on country after that.

    • @stancornett1038
      @stancornett1038 2 года назад +1

      He wrote this from his own experience as his wife had left him taking their son because he was a heavy alcoholic and other drugs used for physical pain. She loved him but he literally drank himself to death. Say that, I loved his music and my mama who was kin to his wife said my oldest brother who was I believe 5 when he died loved his music so well that he cried when he heard he was dead and I would sing this song along with Hank and cry to the music. It paints a picture of a broken and lonely person.

    • @violagreene4643
      @violagreene4643 2 года назад +2

      I can't like this comment enough.

  • @Dana-fy8bg
    @Dana-fy8bg 2 года назад +134

    Hank Sr. was a poet extraordinaire. If he sang it, it’s worth listening to.

  • @BlessYourHeart254
    @BlessYourHeart254 2 года назад +93

    He was called, “The Hillbilly Shakespeare” back in the day. His music and voice were raw and emotional. If you haven’t seen the recent Ken Burns series, Country Music-it’s full of history and deeply American music.

    • @DachsieMom75
      @DachsieMom75 2 года назад +1

      ...such as Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle, & Guy Clark. Texas singer/songwriters out there busting their ass to make a living. Watch "Heartworn Highway" for truly great music.

    • @joesargent3773
      @joesargent3773 2 года назад

      Well I've never heard hillbilly Shakespeare but I have been called the hillbilly or more along the lines of a heck but these are really good song I grew up on some old music country and rock and roll hillbilly Shakespeare huh 😂 yeah on a bad day we'll just about kill you right up there with you cheating high 🤣😭🤣

    • @JillShaw
      @JillShaw 2 года назад +2

      Absolutely! I can barely watch that just knowing that he died alone in the back of that car 😭 Hank was a man who understood loneliness 💔💙💜 also Ken Burns is an American treasure 🌟

    • @susanadamczyk7287
      @susanadamczyk7287 Год назад

      Listen to Tear in my Beer.

  • @reneerandall2572
    @reneerandall2572 2 года назад +69

    This man was my dad’s favorite singer. He could sing like him and when he died he kinda lost his love for music for a while. There are so many of his songs and they are all great. Try “ Your Cheating Heart”

  • @ryanbright3078
    @ryanbright3078 2 года назад +533

    Underrated as a lyrical masterpiece. Notice how the writer goes through each of the senses- hear the whipporwill, see a robin weep, feel the length of time and the sadness of the moon. Then tie it all together in the final verse- The *silence* of a falling star lights up a *purple* sky. And as I *wonder* where you are, Im so lonesome I could cry.

    • @vmbrister3278
      @vmbrister3278 2 года назад +22

      Completely Agree...An All-Time Song!

    • @samuelgm98
      @samuelgm98 2 года назад +18

      He was a genius like that.

    • @williamchiles7856
      @williamchiles7856 2 года назад +15

      Remember this is from the late 1940s or early 1950s

    • @cjk9396
      @cjk9396 2 года назад +20

      It is also written to mimic a heartbeat this is why he emphasizes the up beat

    • @jessebaggs3694
      @jessebaggs3694 2 года назад +27

      Hank just had a six year career as a professional country singer, but what a storyteller he was.

  • @newriverratsam
    @newriverratsam 2 года назад +287

    This man brought "hillbilly" music to the masses. His lyrics earned him the title of "The Hillbilly Shakespeare". Started a genre that later was called country (and western) music.

    • @ericlewis2416
      @ericlewis2416 2 года назад +2

      I will say love ballad blues or honky tonk ballads and blues

    • @ericlewis2416
      @ericlewis2416 2 года назад +2

      But definitely a hillbilly legend

    • @leonardshevlin7260
      @leonardshevlin7260 2 года назад +1

      As with The Bard, there are questions about authorship with some of Hank's lyrics.

    • @lelandwaltz1755
      @lelandwaltz1755 2 года назад +12

      Actually Bob wells created western swing..Hank sung the blues..Hank was a hillbilly singing the blues..From birth Hank got a raw deal...Hillbilly music gaind ground largely because of Mamma Carter

    • @lelandwaltz1755
      @lelandwaltz1755 2 года назад +5

      @@leonardshevlin7260absolutely not..And you should be ashamed for spreading such blasphemy

  • @gabecossio2923
    @gabecossio2923 2 года назад +19

    The lyrics,steel guitar and specially the violin is off the chains! I get teary eyed every time I listen to this song. I also enjoy “Your cheatin’ heart.”

    • @wileydr
      @wileydr Год назад

      That could be his next reaction it would be a good one for him to listen too

  • @lynnettehoniker5217
    @lynnettehoniker5217 2 года назад +14

    “Why Don’t You Love Me Like You Use To Do?” “My Buckets Got A Hole In It” “Long Gone Daddy”. I grew up on Hank Williams. My dad loved him. Hank is the best. Of course there is Hank Jr and his grandson does metal rock AND traditional country as Hank III. He sounds EXACTLY like his grandad when doing country!

    • @gaillouise8310
      @gaillouise8310 2 года назад

      He sounds nothing like his dad nor does he look like him!..if it wasn't for his mother Audrey I doubt he would've entered the music business.

  • @cindiaker5778
    @cindiaker5778 2 года назад +62

    To realize that Hank Sr. was gone at the age of 29 is just crazy. It is unimaginable what he would have done musically had he lived a longer life. His voice is so haunting in this song, and just beautiful.

    • @bb-phantom3324
      @bb-phantom3324 Год назад +1

      Stars that burn that bright are never meant to last !!!

  • @gregoryjohnson9652
    @gregoryjohnson9652 2 года назад +83

    Every country singer after him has wrote a song about him he was that big of an icon to every country singer out there after he passed and regardless of how old he looks in these videos he was only 29 when he died

    • @jr-xs9tf
      @jr-xs9tf 2 года назад +2

      Dude burned the candle at both ends and the middle as well. Cultural phenomenon.

    • @StrawberryHills
      @StrawberryHills 2 года назад +2

      Not only country singers. Leonard Cohen names him in The tower of song

  • @deanakeefer1798
    @deanakeefer1798 4 месяца назад +2

    Hank wrote this song and all of his. I particularly like I SAW THE LIGHT.

  • @richardmash7163
    @richardmash7163 2 года назад +10

    His singing always sent chills down my spine, there will never be another one like Hank Williams he lived like he sang.

  • @jc-vc7xq
    @jc-vc7xq 2 года назад +22

    As a teenager he learned blues from an old black street guitarist named Rufus Payne. That blues influence stayed with him his whole career. His life was amazingly hard and full of sadness with a tragic ending that came all to soon

  • @nettiestandiford7060
    @nettiestandiford7060 2 года назад +24

    Hank Sr, the most significant musician of all time. He sets the standard for all.

  • @shivnorth3141
    @shivnorth3141 2 года назад +1

    I love Hank Williams..much love from Ireland 🍀

  • @caroljones8326
    @caroljones8326 2 года назад +25

    I grew up with my daddy having his own band that would play around Alabama. This is one of the songs he use to play and sing at home. Gosh I miss those days so much!!!

  • @Anarchos160
    @Anarchos160 2 года назад +5

    When it was dark in the beginning I just thought you were setting the mood. After all it is "I'm so lonesome I could cry."

  • @angelone1839
    @angelone1839 2 года назад +18

    I'm only a 29 year old Mexican and I like Hank Williams in lol. My gramps got me into him. Another nice one is Hey Good Looking.

  • @williamkuykendall7569
    @williamkuykendall7569 2 года назад +1

    I still listen to Ole Hank Sr. on my record player and this is one of my Favorites.

  • @peterscocca3024
    @peterscocca3024 2 года назад

    Hank Williams was, is and Always will be one of the Greatest.

  • @stormqueen29
    @stormqueen29 2 года назад +171

    Hank Williams Sr. was one of the true, true greats. Everyone speaks his name with reverence, because he was just so special. There have only been a handful of people in this world who can/could do what he could. Patsy Cline is one. Once you have done some of Hank's songs, you should really listen to Midnight In Montgomery by Alan Jackson. It's a tribute to Hank Sr. It is haunting and beautiful and he uses the line form this song I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry. Countless artists have sung about Hank Sr. Including his own son. He was just that much on a Icon.

    • @maryforbus1918
      @maryforbus1918 2 года назад +6

      I love “midnight in Montgomery “

    • @stroopstyle
      @stroopstyle 2 года назад +7

      How about “The Ride” by David Allan Coe

    • @forgetmenot773
      @forgetmenot773 2 года назад +4

      Hank Sr., Hank Jr. & Hank III. I love they are able to mesh these together since Sr. has been gone so long. ruclips.net/video/7PiWgBfPN0E/видео.html

    • @rtd7066
      @rtd7066 2 года назад +5

      BJ Thomas' does a beautiful version of this song

    • @dirtbikeheaven1129
      @dirtbikeheaven1129 2 года назад +1

      @@rtd7066 I’m glad you mentioned that, it’s one of my favorites. RIP BJ

  • @coletedeux
    @coletedeux 2 года назад +160

    Check out Hank, Sr. I Saw the Light, Kaw Liga, Your Cheatin' Heart, and many others.

    • @lewisgriffin9684
      @lewisgriffin9684 2 года назад +7

      I Saw the Light by Hank Williams Senior my favorite Hank Williams Senior song of all time even still to this day always has been even since I was a kid

    • @joshdh46
      @joshdh46 2 года назад +1

      There's an endless list of great Jr songs

    • @joshdh46
      @joshdh46 2 года назад +1

      Old Habits might be my personal favorite

    • @benlawrence8701
      @benlawrence8701 2 года назад +1

      Long gone lonesome blues for me

    • @neshenniper5498
      @neshenniper5498 2 года назад +1

      I'm going to listen to kaw liga now 😆 💘 one of my favorites

  • @scottyarthuraustralia7567
    @scottyarthuraustralia7567 7 месяцев назад +1

    Simple melody. Nothing Simple about the lyrics or that voice. Absolute LEGEND

  • @aquapros916
    @aquapros916 2 года назад

    Hank is THE man! Facts! & birthed a dynasty!

  • @bfromthev7057
    @bfromthev7057 2 года назад +9

    His music touches the soul

  • @mattarrowood9002
    @mattarrowood9002 2 года назад +62

    Hank Williams Sr is my all time favorite! My favorite of his is called, "I Saw The Light". It is one of the greatest Gospel songs ever, and he wrote it. The feeling he put in it makes the song almost come to life and you can see the Light he spoke of. He could do that with any song he wrote or sang. I also would recommend, "They'll Never Take Her Love From Me". It was a rare occasion for Hank to record a song he didn't write, but this is one he did not. It is a great song though, and he did it magnificently! Anything he did is worth listening too. In my case, I could, and have, listen to him all day long. So many memories of his music, my grandpa, and me singing right along. The best singer/song writer ever in my opinion.

    • @ikemancil3850
      @ikemancil3850 2 года назад +3

      I saw an interview with country comedian Minnie Pearl some years ago. Well some many years ago. She was waiting to go on and she heard Hank perform this song. When he came back off stage Minnie hugged him and said "I so glad you saw the light Hank." Hank replied "That's just it Minnie there ain't no light." He was a deeply troubled man but a very gifted song crafter. You could feel his emotions with every line. My father played steel guitar and finished a tour with him when his regular steel man fell ill. Hank gave my dad a string bolo at the last show. My dad was buried wearing it.

    • @dianemiller8969
      @dianemiller8969 2 года назад +1

      I love this gospel song, "I saw the light", too!

    • @jkreviea
      @jkreviea 2 года назад +1

      Wynonna remade that? 🤣

    • @mattarrowood9002
      @mattarrowood9002 2 года назад +1

      @@jkreviea No she didn't... Lol!

    • @mattarrowood9002
      @mattarrowood9002 2 года назад

      @@jkreviea She just stole the name... Lol!

  • @edmiller9956
    @edmiller9956 2 года назад

    All of them, arguably the greatest artist to walk this earth!

  • @billvallier3852
    @billvallier3852 Год назад

    I love Hank Williams. No body could write a hurtin song like Hank.

  • @michaelthibault6106
    @michaelthibault6106 2 года назад +24

    "I said to Hank Williams, How lonely does it get? Hank Williams hasn't answered yet, but I hear him coughing all night long. A hundred floors above me in the tower of song." -- Leonard Cohen.

    • @diannegilliland4552
      @diannegilliland4552 2 года назад

      B.J. Thomas's version is the very best.. I believe B. J carried it all the way to#1, if I'm no mistaken. Am a huge fan of both 💕

  • @dubyabee7963
    @dubyabee7963 2 года назад +11

    My favorite Hank Sr song is "I Can't Help It If I'm Still In Love With You".

    • @dubyabee7963
      @dubyabee7963 2 года назад

      @The 0% Liberal Show thanks for telling me about that one. I'm a huge Hank Sr fan but haven't heard it before now.

  • @fredbrooks6488
    @fredbrooks6488 2 года назад

    Many many levels of Hank Williams that is what makes the lure to listen to his talent.

  • @kevinbarton8588
    @kevinbarton8588 2 года назад +4

    Hank Sr. Is the godfather of country music and his songs have been recorded by many artists of many genres . Thank you for giving it a fair review with an open mind and a talented ear!

  • @MrDailywealth
    @MrDailywealth 2 года назад +16

    Hank wrote this song express his crippling sadness over the relationship with his first wife Audrey Sheppard. Hank Was 26 at the time.

  • @mv-wb9qm
    @mv-wb9qm 2 года назад +80

    He wrote all his music. I was told years ago when he went to a record producer they didn’t believe he wrote the songs, so the producer told him to write a song about seeing his wife with another man while he took Hanks wife out to lunch. When he came back Hank had written “Today I passed you on the Street, and my heart fell at your feet, I can’t help it if I’m still in love with you, Somebody else stood by your side and you looked so satisfied, I can’t help it but I’m still in love with you.” Awesome song writer, poet and singer.

    • @garybrumley3519
      @garybrumley3519 2 года назад +8

      I hadn’t heard that story before. Thanks!

    • @drchapman6501
      @drchapman6501 2 года назад +4

      When my son was born and I was bringing him home from the hospital, I sang I Can't Help It If I'm Still In Love With You and I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry to him.

    • @nickbrinson3038
      @nickbrinson3038 2 года назад +2

      Actually he only wrote only a 128 of 225 recorded songs, most of them covers and gospels. The most famous song that he actually did not write himself was “Lovesick Blues” which ended up being his first number one hit

    • @wheninroamful
      @wheninroamful 2 года назад

      @@nickbrinson3038 nice, he wrote a lot, an amazing ones at that, but yes, he didn’t write them all; Lost Highway by Leon Payne came to mind right away, but Hank made it his own.

  • @berretservices2109
    @berretservices2109 2 года назад

    lived and raised about 15 mins away from where he passed. I still remember my dad on stage singing Hank' s songs.

  • @joecollie4314
    @joecollie4314 День назад

    HankSR is indeed one of the best. But like many of the best, We lost them way too young. .

  • @susanhavelka2951
    @susanhavelka2951 2 года назад +19

    The words are profound. I can only imagine how he felt when he wrote it.

  • @pinballpsycho
    @pinballpsycho 2 года назад +83

    “The moon just went behind the cloud, to hide its face and cry.” Soul gripping. I listened to it with my eyes closed and the windows open on hot summer nights as a kid. For upbeat tempos from Williams I liked Jambalaya (among others).”Goodbye Joe, me gotta go oh me oh my oh. Me gotta go pole the pirogue down the bayou”.

    • @kayallen9641
      @kayallen9641 2 года назад +1

      Love your reactions, but you must learn the difference between a violin & fiddle. Hint, the difference is how it's played.

    • @haroldsmith63
      @haroldsmith63 2 года назад +6

      Not altogether@@kayallen9641 A violin has strings and a fiddle has strangs..

    • @dianemiller8969
      @dianemiller8969 2 года назад +2

      I love all of his songs, but... "Im so lonesome I could cry " is my all time favorite

    • @JD-iv4jt
      @JD-iv4jt 2 года назад

      Love all of them not so up beat but in my top 💯 songs of all time. And top 10 gospels
      Of all time.

    • @mikelabor7688
      @mikelabor7688 2 года назад

      Bingo!

  • @ianmelonie6440
    @ianmelonie6440 2 года назад

    Hank Williams. Senior is one of my favourite Old time country artists

  • @debhanna8935
    @debhanna8935 10 месяцев назад +3

    I'm 72 years old and listened to this with my dad when i was 'a kid'

  • @ME-gr3le
    @ME-gr3le 2 года назад +49

    “Setting the Woods on Fire” and “Cold, Cold Heart” should be next.

    • @NoBrakes23
      @NoBrakes23 2 года назад +2

      Settin' The Woods On Fire is one of the best date songs ever written.

    • @BarbaraJGeiger
      @BarbaraJGeiger 2 года назад

      This would be my pick.

    • @JohnMiller-zn9pf
      @JohnMiller-zn9pf 2 года назад

      the video is live at the Grand Ole Opry.

    • @Gutslinger
      @Gutslinger 2 года назад

      He already reacted to Cold Cold Heart.

  • @angelasuttles
    @angelasuttles 2 года назад +51

    Hauntingly beautiful! I’ve listened to this song my whole life, so many times. I’m almost 64 and it still gives me chills. The fiddle,steel guitar, Hank’s unique vocals and stunning lyrics combined to create a true masterpiece of art in song. The hardest part for me watching a reaction, is to not close my eyes and get absolutely lost in it. Thank you for reacting. ❤️🙏😇

  • @ruthhenderson5413
    @ruthhenderson5413 2 года назад +13

    You might also enjoy "The Lovesick Blues," more up-tempo and he even yodels, but it still keeps that mournful undertone, as does the irresistible "Hey, Good-Lookin'."

  • @Andi-Bee
    @Andi-Bee 2 года назад +1

    Cold clear Water, Signing Waterfalls... The list of lifetime songs is deep with this one.

  • @membel
    @membel 2 года назад +15

    Always thought his voice was so unique. For someone who died in his 20's, his legacy lives forever.

  • @tomblancett3041
    @tomblancett3041 2 года назад +96

    He sung and wrote alot of music for someone who died at 29. Depression and drugs. Alan Jacksons "Midnight in Montgomery" is also a haunting tribute.

    • @daleskelton8963
      @daleskelton8963 2 года назад +11

      Cant forget about The Ride by David Allan Coe. Or Whose Gonna Fill Their Shoes by George Jones

    • @Wheelinhunter1776
      @Wheelinhunter1776 2 года назад +14

      He actually also struggled with chronic pain from having spina Bifida. Having chronic pain, spina Bifida and depression myself I can relate to what he felt and it's definitely a struggle. Depression makes your pain worse, and pain makes your depression worse. Like a runaway diesel engine and trying to treat your pain with pain meds and in his case Alcohol as well, is the fuel for the engine.

    • @jpenn466
      @jpenn466 2 года назад +2

      @@daleskelton8963 heck yea love that song too

    • @lelandwaltz1755
      @lelandwaltz1755 2 года назад +6

      He was constantly in pain from his disease plus half the time he wasn't drunk..He was high on heroine for the pain...GOD BLESS HANK

    • @MsAggie78
      @MsAggie78 2 года назад +1

      @@lelandwaltz1755 Hank Williams was a heroin addict now? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @mikejames-drummerreginacan1386
    @mikejames-drummerreginacan1386 4 месяца назад +1

    This is so sad if you are actually lonely or if you know of someone who is. I LOVE this song but it really is a tear jerker....I cry every time I hear it....thanks for this video.

  • @stevenmains9082
    @stevenmains9082 2 года назад +7

    I'm 63 and have heard this song so many times over the years - especially because my father was such a huge Hank Williams Sr. fan. But,,, I've never heard it analyzed so beautifully as you did MrLboyd. This video added me as a subscriber. I will listen to this song with much more appreciation. Thank you!

  • @Gutslinger
    @Gutslinger 2 года назад +60

    "It's almost haunting." - That's a great way to describe a lot of Hank Williams' songs, and really, his voice.

    • @3stax170
      @3stax170 2 года назад +1

      Such a true statement!!!

    • @pennydavis2637
      @pennydavis2637 2 года назад

      Truth

    • @jennebeans
      @jennebeans 2 года назад +1

      When he said that, I was like YESSS!!

    • @ask21900
      @ask21900 2 года назад

      I came here to say this

  • @jimhart1818
    @jimhart1818 2 года назад +14

    Hank Williams will always haunt my soul, he will always be number 1 in my book. Thank you Hank Williams you have a place in my heart for ever ❤

  • @shannonnichols3415
    @shannonnichols3415 2 года назад

    You can close your eyes and see the waltz. Beautiful. Heart breaking in the most delicious of ways!

  • @andyburk8771
    @andyburk8771 2 года назад

    Hank Sr. the GOAT of Country Music! Even Metalheads like me love him.

  • @stevedegraaf7897
    @stevedegraaf7897 2 года назад +85

    It doesn’t matter what you listen to next. Every song he did was great.

    • @yullt6885
      @yullt6885 2 года назад +1

      I would second that opinion.

    • @Uncledooky
      @Uncledooky 2 года назад

      Come on

    • @stevedegraaf7897
      @stevedegraaf7897 2 года назад +1

      @@Uncledooky come on, what? It’s the truth. He was the Hillbilly Shakespeare.

    • @Uncledooky
      @Uncledooky 2 года назад

      @@stevedegraaf7897
      Ha. No I was agreeing with you. Thats old people slang for " That's Right" or "Hell Yea " when someone is speaking the truth. Kinda like an Amen in church. Hank Sr was rapping before Rap. In one of his songs " he wrote a lot about his wife" he says " she'll do me shell do you she got that kind of loving lord I love it when she calls me sweet Daddy" he is basically calling Audrey a whore. Lol

    • @dumplingshakes22
      @dumplingshakes22 2 года назад

      @@Uncledooky I’m from the south I got it haha

  • @stanparsley9186
    @stanparsley9186 2 года назад +171

    One of the most poetic songs ever written.
    Check out Kaw-Liga and Cold Cold Heart.

  • @eddycoronado8381
    @eddycoronado8381 2 года назад +1

    Hank Williams..😊👍

  • @bustabass9025
    @bustabass9025 2 года назад +5

    One of the most touching songs ever recorded. The harmonies outlining Ol' Hank's crackling timber voice will bring you to tears, as Don Helms' steel guitar passionately reminds you of every heartache you've ever felt.
    That haunting violin echoes every classic country song's signature refrain. Like Elvis once said, "...probably the saddest song I've ever heard." Who better to know first hand about sadness than him? 👑

  • @bfromthev7057
    @bfromthev7057 2 года назад +5

    “There’s a tear in my beer” hank

  • @Hillers62
    @Hillers62 2 года назад +22

    I was a boy growing up in Texas and first heard this song when I was about six in 1968...it has haunted me ever since...I still get goosebumps...It has to be the saddest song ever sung...

    • @dillonmckenzie8028
      @dillonmckenzie8028 2 года назад +1

      How's about Alone and Forsaken by Hank? Also beyond sad

    • @tilfmilfy7459
      @tilfmilfy7459 2 года назад

      Cold cold heart is much sadder than this

  • @hlawrencepowell
    @hlawrencepowell 2 года назад

    All the greats hold Hank Sr. as their greatest inspiration.

  • @joeczernik2459
    @joeczernik2459 Год назад

    Now THAT is CLASSIC COUNTRY MUSIC!!! Totally give you props for checking it out!!!!

  • @blwestern
    @blwestern 2 года назад +6

    This is the style of music that I remember hearing yeas ago ( in the 60's and 70's) at family gatherings in the Ozarks. The older men and women would bring out their fiddles, guitars, spoon or bones and jugs, and just sit around an play the music that was passed down from their forefathers.
    They are all long gone now but I can still hear the music in my mind.

    • @hillbillyhippie4235
      @hillbillyhippie4235 2 года назад +1

      The Ozarks are the home of alot of good music for sure

  • @joefox4552
    @joefox4552 2 года назад +148

    I'm a huge Hank Williams fan. You should definitely check out, "Long Gone Lonesome Blues." His pitch changes are amazing in this song. It could even be called a yodel. Definitely worth a listen.

    • @lisaboccardo4293
      @lisaboccardo4293 2 года назад +1

      Me too

    • @mhammer3186
      @mhammer3186 2 года назад

      Hole in my bucket is great too. Also there’s Luke the drifter which was one of his stage personas

    • @debragoforth7477
      @debragoforth7477 2 года назад +1

      One of the songs my Dad used to sing to us before bed was "Long Gone Lonesome Blues"

    • @karlhurlebusch3961
      @karlhurlebusch3961 2 года назад

      Try "I'll never get out of this world alive "

  • @marvinmaricic9006
    @marvinmaricic9006 2 года назад

    It's amazing to observe a soul being absorbed by the beauty of poetry and expression.

  • @yalaagee8902
    @yalaagee8902 2 года назад

    This reminds me of my grandfather he loved Hank. I remember him playing this song over and over again.

  • @thedystopiandollhouse
    @thedystopiandollhouse 2 года назад +85

    Hank Williams' "Your Cheatin Heart" is well worth listening to. Patsy Cline's cover is excellent as well.

    • @koDaffi
      @koDaffi 2 года назад +2

      I agree, except make sure its the original demo version before they messed with it after he passed away.

    • @sophiapaulekas4767
      @sophiapaulekas4767 2 года назад +1

      I love Patsey's rendition, especially for singing. It is in the key of G, whereas Hank sings it in C.

    • @cassandradistin9699
      @cassandradistin9699 2 года назад +1

      The lyrics to that song always get me. Most of his songs are well crafted but something in the cadence and rhyme gets me every time I hear it.

    • @nickmcafee3523
      @nickmcafee3523 2 года назад +1

      I used to sing Your Cheating Heart Karaoke.. I got a couple standing ovations in Nashville.

  • @judyingram4846
    @judyingram4846 2 года назад +28

    Love, love, love this song. Love how Hank William's sings it best. He's a Legend.❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @Nadeshiroo
    @Nadeshiroo 2 года назад

    My dad loved this man’s music grew up on it. He was the best.

  • @Delcielo9
    @Delcielo9 2 года назад +4

    I heard this song for the first time when I was about 13 and loved it immediately. It is hauntingly beautiful.

  • @blitztim6416
    @blitztim6416 2 года назад +84

    I grew up with Hank’s music. It still touches me.
    Try ‘Cold Cold Heart’ which I think he is singing in the video. Great lyrics in that song also.

    • @edwagner325
      @edwagner325 2 года назад +1

      I think that was the video for "There's a Tear in My Beer", Hank Jr sang a duo with this dad with this Video.

    • @annymaytiedye2055
      @annymaytiedye2055 2 года назад

      me too

  • @phoffert1960
    @phoffert1960 2 года назад +53

    When Elvis performed this, he said it was the saddest song, he had ever heard. Elvis did a good version of this also.

    • @atljbb85
      @atljbb85 2 года назад

      Elvis version is trash....

    • @phoffert1960
      @phoffert1960 2 года назад

      @@atljbb85 Everyone's entitled to their opinion.

    • @richardvernon1032
      @richardvernon1032 2 года назад

      @@atljbb85 Hanks a good songwriter.
      Elvis sang from his soul. No whine

    • @atljbb85
      @atljbb85 2 года назад

      @@richardvernon1032 hank sang , played and wrote from his soul. The ONLY thing Elvis could do was sing. He never wrote a damn thing and his guitar was a prop

    • @richardvernon1032
      @richardvernon1032 2 года назад

      @@atljbb85 Elvis didn't have to write. Best singer, translater.
      Troll along yee haw

  • @sigep145
    @sigep145 2 года назад +4

    Lost Highway is my personal favorite Hank song. So Lonesome I Could Cry is definitely in the top 5.

  • @brendadavis8758
    @brendadavis8758 2 года назад

    Hank Williams was my mother's favorite singer when I was growing up. I didn't like country music at that time but I now have an appreciation for all types of music and Hank Williams especially.

  • @victorialove9104
    @victorialove9104 2 года назад +61

    My grandmother was a citrus farmer in Florida. We would sit on her front porch, the intoxicating scent of orange blossoms enveloping us, and she would play her auto harp and sing. She taught me two songs that I have never forgotten and sing often, Wildwood flower and this song. I love them so much. The poetry, the imagery, is so deep and true in both those songs and I am with my grandmother again whenever I hear them or sing them though she left me long ago. It makes me so happy that you love this song too.

    • @lynnschook6124
      @lynnschook6124 2 года назад +10

      This brought a tear to my eye. What a wonderful memory for you. The imagery you used put me on that porch with you and grandma. Thank you for sharing something so special and personal to you.
      This is why I love to read the comments.

    • @c0lutch
      @c0lutch 2 года назад +7

      Why am I smelling orange blossoms right now?
      Great story. Thank you for sharing

    • @lashropa
      @lashropa 2 года назад +1

      👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

    • @scottcooksey5284
      @scottcooksey5284 2 года назад +1

      Yes

    • @gatorbuilt
      @gatorbuilt 2 года назад +2

      I can almost hear the Orange Blossom Special playing, myself.

  • @bonniestulll1816
    @bonniestulll1816 2 года назад +7

    He's a legend they made the instruments speak every word in clarity with the performer.

  • @georgehays4900
    @georgehays4900 2 года назад

    It truly is one of the best songs ever written.

  • @cajunbear70
    @cajunbear70 2 года назад

    To hear the old country songs is to hear raw talent . No auto tune no equalizer just people playing and singing from the heart.

  • @ChrisKnoxinAZ
    @ChrisKnoxinAZ 2 года назад +29

    According to the Ken Burns jazz documentary, Bird Charlie Parker drove his band mates crazy playing Hank on the jukebox in diners. Bird liked the stories.

  • @lauribleu7558
    @lauribleu7558 2 года назад +7

    My mother liked Hank Williams. From what I remember of his songs, this rendition sounds very like my memories, stretched vowels and all.

  • @danielhead8123
    @danielhead8123 Год назад +1

    Hanks masterpiece

  • @Huntersmoonx
    @Huntersmoonx 2 года назад

    Breaks my heart. All over again.

  • @thomasskelly8485
    @thomasskelly8485 2 года назад +6

    the steel guitar, still my favorite all time instrument. It pairs so well with Hanks voice. glad you reacted to this.

  • @Music_Lover26
    @Music_Lover26 2 года назад +42

    Love your reaction to the Hillbilly Shakespeare, as he was sometimes called. Hearing him is like an arrow straight to the heart. Some other songs, Mansion On the Hill, I Saw the Light, Lost Highway, Your Cheatin' Heart, Honky Tonkin', I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive, Hey Good Lookin', Honky Tonk Blues, Jambalaya, Lonesome Whistle,
    Long Gone Lonesome Blues. Move It On Over is kind of rockabilly and pretty funny. If this looks like a long list, it is only a fraction of Hank Williams' songs. As other posters have said, you can't go wrong with any Hank Williams song.

  • @nathanbovee36
    @nathanbovee36 Год назад +1

    "This is music" was haunting hearing you say that. As far as it gave me chills. That's what music is supposed to be.

  • @Juliemorgana
    @Juliemorgana 2 года назад

    This song could break your heart. Every time.

  • @lepm1970
    @lepm1970 2 года назад +95

    It's actually a fiddle, not a violin...want to know the difference? A violin has strings, a fiddle has strangs. 😜 Seriously though, one of my all-time favorites also . Lost Highway is probably my favorite of his.

    • @nebelungpixie9373
      @nebelungpixie9373 2 года назад +7

      Awesome old joke. 🤣
      Other acceptable answers were "Depends on who's playing it or where it's being played."

    • @FriedBob
      @FriedBob 2 года назад +7

      the other big difference is you carry a violin in a case and a fiddle in a gunny sack

    • @jssonstillwell3243
      @jssonstillwell3243 2 года назад +2

      Actually, it is a violin. Fiddle is a technique used to play a violin.

    • @rockinredneck57
      @rockinredneck57 2 года назад +2

      One uses nylon (gut) strings, the other uses steel strings. The instrument is the same.

    • @wheninroamful
      @wheninroamful 2 года назад

      @@jssonstillwell3243 Fiddle can also have a more rounded bridge, so the chance of hitting two strings at once is lessened for fast fiddle-string changing styles.

  • @timdenman3298
    @timdenman3298 2 года назад +12

    Simple put. Hank is Music. The most important figure in music history. Listen to his alter ego Luke The Drifter's Men with broken hearts

  • @garygable4170
    @garygable4170 2 года назад

    Simply Beautiful.

  • @cbtriplett
    @cbtriplett 2 года назад

    "Everything I love about music is right here ... the violin tells its own story." Damn, man. You saying that is just as beautiful. as the song.