WHY DON'T YOU KIDS LIKE THE HANK WILLIAMS?

>>70809061
rec me some Hank Williams.

I do. He's my favorite artist of all time.

>>70809061
Because it takes an adult to enjoy sad drinking songs

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>>70809080
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WXYjm74WFI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_c1A8tmHuI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtolv9kM1qk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZQMoQW_7D0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19vApPwWqh8

And just about everything else he's done. If you want to listen to more, find a singles compilation like pic related and have at it. He doesn't really have any single essential albums since he died before the album became a popular format but those singles are all gold

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>>70809080
10 disc box.

>>70809172
My grandfather had an Ernest Tubb album (by "album" I mean a booklet thingie with a bunch of 78 discs in it).

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Alone With His Guitar [Mercury, 2000]

Like most rock and rollers, and most country fans, I much prefer Hank the honky-tonker. But back before Pete Seeger claimed eminent domain, Williams just as often conceived himself as a folksinger. Mixing standards with obscurities and originals with covers, this 18-track selection from the countless solo demos and radio transcriptions preserved on his daunting ten-CD set will satisfy most of us. His directness is in relief, and though his natural sense of rhythm is irrepressible, his natural gravity overpowers it. If you wonder how the songwriter could get as starkly lugubrious as "A Teardrop on a Rose," listen to the singer bore into "With Tears in My Eyes" and "Thy Burdens Are Greater Than Mine." A-

The Essential Hank Williams Collection: Turn Back the Years [Mercury, 2005]

Musically as well as lyrically, Williams was so simple he was profound--Irving Berlin was Brecht-Weill by comparison. Without benefit of drums, his pulse was livelier than that of any competing country singer even when he was very sad, which whatever the tempo was most of the time. But he was also mawkish and austere, and his best-known titles have been played to death. So truth to tell, I generally pull out Lefty Frizzell when I want me some honky-tonk. Now maybe I won't. Although this triple has room for more than the 60 titles it gives up, and the 10 CDs of his box set include major performances it passes by, its size feels just right. First it breaks up the classics with beguiling semi-obscurities. Then it breaks up the semi-obscurities with classics. A

and that's all she wrote
DEAR JOHN
she sent my saddle home

>>70809061
Him and Bruce Springsteen are my favourite baby boomer-core artists

>>70809061
I like some of his stuff but he's not something I listen to all the time.

>>70810926
you're thinking of Hank Jr.
completely different.

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL!!!!

Hank Jr is buttcountry of the Toby Keith school. Hank III I have no idea.

>>70809968
I remember he once said that it is in country music where one finds the truest singer-songwriters, and there is more feeling and sincerity in one HW song than in Jackson Browne's entire catalog.