I know you'll be interested in this Movie, which I also plan on taking in. Middleston sounds pretty damn close to Hank Williams. I only hope this Movie-"I Saw The Light" can rival Joaquin Phoenix's singing Cash Style in "Walk The Line". Phoenix did such a great job, was fkd out of an Academy Award, over a fkn lip sync job of Ray Charles, award given to the lip syncer...... Great thing about "Walk The Line" was, one could close their eyes, and swear they were listening to the Epic Legend, not the Actor......... http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/...n-first-clip-from-hank-williams-biopic-watch/ Here's His version of "Move It On Over"
Have to check that out, gotta be better than that 1964 "Your Cheatin' Heart with George Hamilton. From '86 to '93 I had Hank Williams under a magnifying glass. There were varying amounts of material available. For example one former Rolling Stone reporter wrote what he thought Williams said or acted. At any rate the end result for me was a song that I wrote as a tribute titled" the man from Alabam." If you did a Copyright Search for the title in the Library of Congress you'd see my name, Orlando Florida, and my birth year. You'd also find that Lionel Ritchie wrote a song with the same title. The final verse goes as follows: That Heart of Dixie Country Boy passed on in Fifty Three, The impact of his music, will never set me free. Through him I learned to phrase the verse, sing in perfect time, To play those Country Rhythms, and make that music mine. Hank I some times wonder, just what you'd have to say, If you could hear me when I sing, in my own country way. Red neck Country Singer, you bet that's what I am. I'll stand up proud and sing the songs of the man from Alabam'
That's damn good as it gets....... tho' my own Musical Interest range in most musical genres- (rap even hip hop is NOT music IMO); at heart, I was raised first to Honky Tonk. To this day, I'd rather listen to George Jones, than most current clowns in Nashville, and have remained that way, with great C&W music. By the age of 21, I had every LP cut onto Vinyl, of Williams Work. To me, Hank was the Godfather of Honky Tonk, a different yet perfect approach to the Grand Ole Opry and Nashville, then to the air waves, to carry a nation. If I am not mistaken Hank spent a couple of years living off "The Strip" in Bossier City, for a year or two, wasn't that when He first got married, had Hank Jr...??? I'm looking forward to this Film.....thought you'd appreciate knowing about it, if you hadn't already........
I wanted to learn guitar to play Hank Williams tunes. Like Hank, I like those big open chords and the rootie toot rhythms. Move It On Over damn good tune, you can feel the Jazz Influence and I always liked George Thorogoods cover. I remember George Jones telling how he played behind Williams in Texas, froze up in awe. Old George became pretty damn good in his own right. Ernest Tubb and the Texas Troubadors pretty much pioneered Honky Tonk in the early Forties. ET was also a pioneer of bringing the electric guitar to Country Music. Hank jumped on it and supercharged the whole genre. In '68 I saw The Drifting Cowboy Band in a small Massachusetts Club. I took an album to the show and got it autographed, still have it to this day. The only prominent man missing was steel guitar player Don Helms. My number two guy with the Honky Tonk was Webb Pierce, dude turned out hits for a long time. That Louisiana Hayride saw a lot of future biggies come through.
I definitely see what your saying about Jazz influence in Hanks "Move It On Over"... Have you ever played or heard of Townes Van Zandt...........? yes it did, a line up fit for the Grand Ole Opry, ........(ie, La Hayride) I too love George Thorogood's Move It on Over....... altho', I love music in general, other than those mentioned, and despise any POP bubble gum bullshit music .... My favorite Thorogood tune (other than Move it on Over) is: (a tune that damn near reflects my own life, as well as the fact, my name is Bob..........tho' my little brother was never told such, ... since he became an Urban Soldier with the LASD........
