Hank Williams

...Va. : What is your opinion of the "Let's pick Daddy's bones"-style of musical duets that never happened, such as Nat and Natalie Cole or Hank Williams Sr. and Jr.? Paul Farhi: It doesn't offend me, but it doesn't impress me, either. It's a...

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...Elvis Costello and Rufus Wainwright, who help Cash make these songs her own. Electronic shadings give new color and depth to the Hank Williams hit "Take These Chains From My Heart," as do the organ and layered strings on her atmospheric...

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...of her own songs, Peyroux is highly regarded as an interpreter who puts her jazzy, soul-drenched voice to material by writers like Hank Williams, Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell. On Bare Bones, Peyroux shares songwriting credits throughout...

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...impact of the song's gory outcome. What you won't find on "Southern Voice," is anything like "Red, White and Pink Slip Blues" by Hank Williams Jr. or "Shuttin' Detroit Down" by John Rich. Country artists, more than their rock and pop...

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"Southern Voice," the pop-country stalwart's 10th album, is teeming with characters who've populated the airwaves since Hank Williams first tamed the Opry. Homesick heroes, estranged fathers, lonely barflies -- McGraw's handsome voice...

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Nelson sang his biggest hits - "Crazy," "Night Life," "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" and "Always on my Mind. " He played Hank Williams songs ("Hey Good Lookin,'" "Jambalaya (on the Bayou)" and "Move it on Over"), a couple from his buddy...

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...Williams' early influences manifested in her later work. Indeed, it's possible to draw a line directly from the singer's cover of Hank Williams' "Jambalaya (on the Bayou)" to her own, aching "Lafayette." As she moved through the evening,...

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...(with empty balconies), the early years were also the unknown years. But the audience shared many unique moments: a spot-on version of Hank Williams' "Jambalaya (On the Bayou)" framed by mandolin, bass, acoustic guitar and snare drum, plus her...

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Hank Williams' "I'm So Lonesome, I Could Cry," was the first Sunday Song Lyric. Appropriately so as Hank Williams is easily one of the greatest American song writers of all time. He died at only 29, and yet left one of the most impressive...

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...homage to their parents. Brenda Lee skipped a generation the next year with "Grandma, What Great Songs You Sang!,'' and Hank Williams Jr. debuted on record in 1964 with "Sings the Songs of Hank Williams,'' a salute to his long-gone...

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