"A Six Pack To Go" (Hank Wilson) Leon Russell VS Hank Thompson

Here is an original version of "A Six Pack To Go" by Country Hall of Fame inductee Hank Thompson with a cover by Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Leon Russell. Written by Hank Thompson, Dick Hart, John Lowell and Johnny Lowe, "A Six Pack To Go" was a country Top Twenty hit for Hank Thompson and His Brazos Valley Boys in 1966. It became a very popular juke box song in bars across America. Leon was a fan of Thompson and his 1966 hit was also one of Leon Russell's favorite country songs, and was among about thirty songs that he recorded in a three-day period in late February 1973 at Bradley's barn in Nashville, using the name Hank Wilson for a country album. He used Hank Thompson’s name and Hank Williams’ name together to make Hank Wilson!
JJ Cale, who was from Tulsa like Russell, was signed to Russell's Shelter Records at the time and contributed to the sessions as a co-producer and guitar player. He and Pete Wade were on electric guitars for this cover by Leon, with Billy Sanford on high string guitar, Ray Edenton on rhythm guitar. On pedal steel guitars were Weldon Myrick and Nashville legend "Sneaky" Pete Drake. Charlie McCoy was on harmonica and Pig Robbins was on a piano. Tulsa legend Carl Radle was on electric bass as Harold Bradley played upright bass.
Besides being on the album Hank Wilson's Back, it was released it on a single with Leon's cover of Bill Monroe's "Uncle Pen."