The History Of Country Music 05 Hank Williams

[@Roxanne_71]

Hank literally poured his heart into his songs - one of the greatest to do it EVER!

[@MrGreglarry]

This guy wrote 167 songs and recorded over 100 of them in 18 months with 12 going to No. 1.

[@USA24541]

The greatest, not one of the greatest

[@jjon7047]

Simply the greatest of all time. For me, there’s Hank Williams, then there’s everyone else.

[@SJ-ni6iy]

The BBC has the best Hank Williams documentary that I have ever seen.

[@flintlockDave]

Hank was the greatest singer,songwriter the world has ever seen thank you Hank for sharing your voice with us.

[@royclary3969]

Thank you for saying that .

[@caseycarmelo547]

I guess it is kind of randomly asking but do anybody know a good website to watch new series online ?

[@bradeneaston3515]

@Casey Carmelo flixportal :D

[@caseycarmelo547]

@Braden Easton thanks, signed up and it seems like a nice service =) I really appreciate it!

[@bradeneaston3515]

@Casey Carmelo no problem :)

[@therealhousewifeofballtown]

The greatest country artist of all time !

[@randysmith4081]

I grew up listening to all this music. My dad loved it. I was a Rock and roller. Now I find myself not only listening to this music but actually playing it on guitar.

[@joemanpjg]

Hank you will never be forgotten.....My Mom now has a front seat up in Heaven listening to your fabulous voice and songs...

[@doloressmith8975]

I was 13 years old when I fell in love with Hank Williams music,and the first song he sang was your charting hart that’s when I fell in love with he’s much,guess you would say that’s I love all he’s songs,I was raised up listening to country music,I love country music with all my heart ❤️,they are a lot of country singers ho have gone home,may god bless each and everyone of them may you all amen 🙏🙏🙌❤️💗♥️

[@reubenmayhew5294]

This was my favorite singer since 1955..

[@13leggys]

Tears for this man😢no one knew how to help him. Poverty produces the most gifted stars or talented writers!💥✌🏼🎸🎶❤️😎💎

[@jacka123100]

Two of his best are "Your Cheatin Heart", and "Cold Cold Heart", he has such a unique voice, the best country singer of all time.

[@royclary3969]

When he wrote cold cold heart he must have new my ex wife . she was every thing in that song that he said.

[@MsHillbilly24]

Still so sadly missed today . Hank The Boss .R.I.P

[@michaelsix9684]

Hank lived hard, used a quack doctor, and it's a miracle he did so many great songs

[@leonardfoster6252]

A beautiful song! By ol'e Hank...

[@imnmbrone1492]

Listening to ole Hank all day today, 01/01-Rest in Peace, Mr. Williams, much respect and love to ya.

[@robertbeasley5595]

Hank was the first super star..without him and his music I don't think there would have ever been rock & roll...he is the Messiah!!!

[@michelleg4346]

Hank Williams was handsome and a great Talented Entertainer. A good Man. What a shame that he was a binge drinker with a painful back. I really appreciate his music now. It is so sad that he died so young.

[@michaelsix9684]

he had a quack doctor, Toby Marshall who gave him drugs, Marshall was a phony and his medical errors hastened Hank's death

[@BigDan-c7r]

I grew up with Hank on the radio.😢😢😢

[@jrallen5417]

I have 150 songs of his, enjoying his voice quiet often, very blessed!

[@dougsmith4619]

the Hank Williams story..so young..you could feel his pain through his music..when you think you know. then more.to learn..great .true life story.

[@brendaisajiw3417]

My goodness, I don't know about anyone else but I sure think his grandson, Hank William's, III looks a lot like his grandfather!

[@jessicawiklanski8945]

I think so too.

[@f379986]

Totally. A clone. His voice is also much the same.

[@jjon7047]

There was Hank Williams, then everyone else.

[@curlywolfone]

People Still can't get enough of that ole uneducated country backslider. Long live Hank Williams.

[@patsythompson5933]

He

[@loisenochs4562]

I was born after hank died but it would be years before I knew he was gone before I arrived. Love hank

[@rogerwhitten2558]

If Heaven is what I think it will be Hank Williams will sing a song for me he touches me in a way nobody else ever has or ever will

[@harpazosnatched2247]

Always Loved Hank as a child and still today. I can’t spell that back problem he had in his spine but I do know if he had a bad case of it he probably drank more to ease the pain. And that would turn you into a alcoholic. I never saw him but miss him dearly. We love you Hank great writer.

[@franciscasusilawatirimbaja2960]

Love this. Thanks so much for sharing it. An amazing documentary on the life of Hank Williams Sr. Priceless.

[@patriciaannhellums2517]

hank williams wonderful man, greatest county singer ever. his songs brings tears to your eyes. fell good kind of country music, never will be music like this.

[@clintcalvert9250]

Perfect marriage of artist,timing,and the public searching,all coming together.And the icing was an early death,that sealed the legend.

[@greenwolfegreen6028]

To be specific, his driver stopped at a filling station in Oak Hill, West Virginia. About 10 miles from Beckley, West Virginia. He found Hank was unresponsive and he took him to the hospital in Oak Hill, about a block away. The filling station was torn down a couple of years ago. The hospital is still there. I live near Beckley.

[@dustinsherman1052]

Beautiful country over yonder. Spent a few falls just north of Beckley. Back when the Alpaca boom was roaring

[@kelvinkloud]

he started the faithful trip that night out of a famous hotel in downtown knoxville tn. It still stands. the dope was probably bought in big orange country.

[@corinneyaworski5274]

I saw the light, great song...

[@alandesouzacruz5124]

The king of country music 👏🏻🤠

[@rickwillis1265]

Merle Haggard was the greatest in my generation. But even Merle has to take a back seat to the greatest of all-time-Hank Williams Sr. Just my opinion.

[@timmooney8806]

Agreed'''

[@therealhousewifeofballtown]

Rick Willis you’re right and I’m sure Merle would agree

[@bobbybeeman7280]

@Jane Marsee One unknowingly to him, then demonic led life. I know; I see my own past drawn up and carried away with the power of the unseen.

[@Pinebrookjohn75]

Yea love em both but its not close

[@haverstock1888]

Hank is the greates country singer on the planet

[@terrysmith7956]

it's amazing that this video shows the silver dollar in my hometown it is were Hank Williams carved out his name in the bar it also shows Hondo tx that is around 30 miles away

[@williamodom924]

The man was my father and Chet Atkins favorite singer. They would listen to him on the GRAND OLE OPERA.

[@USA24541]

Funny, Hank died in West Virginia, whoever filmed the opening scene in the desert. I reckon they have never been to West Virginia's green hills and mountains.

[@nadyarossi5102]

VA24541 I was thinking the same thing.

[@pvtimberfaller]

Just like Dukes of Hazzard

[@glennweeks7176]

VA24541 ...they were trying to protray the loneliness of the road...

[@MrToband]

Just like movies supposedly in Texas,they ALWAYS show a desert when only far west Texas has deserts the rest is green and humid.All those old westerns that were supposed to be in Texas were filmed in California and Arizona, the real west.Texas is the south.

[@trinamccomassullivan5766]

Apparently not

[@shirleypoplo3341]

Might not have been well educated!!!! The man definitely had a God given talent!!! He could put emotions n word's like nobody!!! Hank was a very warm hearted man!!! Hanks road was not a easy one!!!Hank Williams absolutely the best ever!!!!

[@scuzzbecuzz]

He was in pain all his life from spina bifida.... beyond great......greatest!!

[@Gail1Marie]

Not just spina bifida, but spina bifida occulta, where part of the spine isn't fully covered. It's caused by a lack of folic acid during pregnancy, so it isn't seen much in the developed world any more. Surgery is available today, but back then for a poor boy? Probably not. So those who call him an alcoholic or drug addict aren't really being fair to him. He was in continual, terrible pain, and medicating himself was the only way he could function.

[@scuzzbecuzz]

Gail Lofdahl Thanks for that. I knew he was in great pain and am in awe of what he accomplished during a relatively short life! What a blessing he was to the world of music!!

[@joemanpjg]

@@Gail1Marie Your comment is right on the money.That kind of pain would drive anybody to drink...But he was the best and will never be replaced. Rest in Peace..Hank Williams

[@lucilovecraft1621]

Hank Williams a genius cut short in his prime. His songs are the perfect mix of Joy, Pain, angst and heartbreak, in Scotland where I grew up Hank is a mythical figure, like some country and western elemental who’s whoops and whines echo as loudly today as they did in the past. When they build the mt Rushmore of rock royalty Hanks face will be carved there.✌️

[@lauraphillips8593]

Interesting that Hank"s legend reached all the way to Scotland! Thanks for sharing.

[@kelvinkloud]

@@lauraphillips8593 ... scots & the rural south usa have a very deep connection. most poor whites in the south were of scot irish lineage. the scots were brought over by the brits as grunt & slave labor in the south. the scots resented that & hated the high class strata of anglo aristocracy pre revl war. its why many of them were the first to go to the applach & live in the present nc/tenn/va border areas. the hills were also more like their homeland. words like yonder came directly from scotland. when boone opened up the appl trail thru the cumberland gap many of them move up into east tenn., ky & missouri. then when the revl war started they almost all fought against the brits. its one of the reasons military & fierce indiv indepedence (state rights) is a big thing in the south. by the time of the civil war their descendents were called hillbillies & lived mainly in the appalch & some in the ohio valley. interestingly enough when the civil war broke out, most of e tenn fought for the union b/c of their scot lineage & not embracing slavery. lincoln himself was born in the hills of ky.... of course they carried over scot traditions into music. bluegrass is deeply scottish at its roots. if you mix those influences w/ blues of the delta (wh/ hank did) & jazz of new orleans then you had the genesis of rock. hank was in the incubator of all of that.

[@jacka123100]

Actually saw him live back in the early 50's, he was right down the road from where my fathers lived and where I grew up. He was at the old Sunset Park, in Jennersville, Pennsylvania. Back in those days, Sunset Park, was almost like the Grand Old Oprey.

[@jpeanrkode]

There is a CD available that has a recording of that very concert. It's called The Lost Concerts.

[@thomaspick4123]

Wow! You are one lucky man to have heard a Hank Williams show live.

[@Luke-pk9fe]

All the people on here hating on Hank Jr and Hank lll are the same people who would have hated Hank sr. If they were the same age they are now in the 40's

[@dawnchristensen7492]

29 years old. Dang.

[@HANKRIZER]

The thing about im so lonesome I could cry is how many people sing it wrong. if you listen you will hear (have you ever seen a robin weep when leaves begin to die like me hes lost the will to live im so lonesome I could cry.) it seems to change the whole song. at least it did for me when I first caught the real words Hank was singing. I was about 9 years old then. Hank will always be the best of them all.

[@douglasd53]

You're right...I've noticed that since I was about 14 (I'm 61 now). I think the copyrighted words were "That means he's lost the will to live", but I think Hank changed them when he recorded it. It makes a world of difference. I think he probably wished he'd have written it that way in the first place. "Like me, he's lost the will to live" is a much more intimate and personal lyric. That's the way I sing it.

[@steen0305]

I heard Hanks 1949 recording when I was a teenager many years ago, and it made a deep impression on me. Especially the line "like me he's lost the will to live". I often wondered why the words have changed.

[@wingnut4two]

douglasd53 Hank didn't actually write the song. The song was written by a gentleman named Paul Gilley from a small town in eastern Kentucky. Mr. Gilley wrote several Hank Sr. songs but, he sold them to Hank so he didn't receive a writers credit for them. Perhaps that is where the lyrics changed. I should add that nobody could've ever sung them like Hank Williams, he's the gold standard by which ALL country music singers are judged!!!

[@HANKRIZER]

wingnut4two You got that right. but I don't think they are judging them hard anymore.

[@wingnut4two]

I agree, and that's a shame...

[@glendametivier6027]

Love is music, sad all the good ones are gone now. RIP Hank Sr.

[@tommywood7187]

HANK SR WAS ONE OF THE BEST SINGER AND SONG WRITER. HANK HE PAVED THE WAY FOR A LOT OF SINGERS TOO DAY. TO HANK FRED ROSE WAS LIKE A FATHER FIGURE TO HIM. A,K.A LUKE THE DRIFTER, HANK SR LIFE WAS SO SAD, THANK YOU HANK SR FOR YOUR MUSIC........

[@guyindecatur]

Hank Williams was born in an area that produced several other notable people. Mark Childress, Nelle Harper Lee, and Truman Capote. There must be something in the water, soil, or air..! Every time I head west I go out of my way to visit Hank's grave in Montgomery. It's always spotless.

[@dancelli714]

A GOOD LITTLE HISTORY HERE.

[@barry1705]

Hank three finally said , what l told my friends that Hanks song move it on over,was the first Rock in roll song. Melody was just like rock a round the clock, by Bill Haily and the comets. Ten years before Bill did it.

[@tonyakincaid5527]

He can sing real good

[@royclary3969]

Hank is the best that ever walked up or down the road.. The best ,......

[@quiglough]

One of the greatest!!

[@POBulkhead]

My favorite is, Settin' the woods on fire.

[@thomaspick4123]

Me too. The words are great. I can see it visually.

[@msattler111]

Hank was in Sun Records in those latter days. As was Pressley, and so many others I cannot any longer vouch to these days. I was there, and I am willing to say that the movie Cadillac Records was a mighty fine bit of history. I was a very young recording student, which was not picked up by the story. I am now 57 yo. It seems all past history,,,,,,,,,,and yet.

[@peterwood-jenkins3634]

msattler111 Hank never sang on Sun Records and if you are 57 you never saw Hank live you were too young in fact your whole story seems muddled English

[@msattler111]

Peter Wood-Jenkins Yeah, well..... That's what happens when you're halfway through a bottle of whiskey and timelines and one's fantasies get away from you..............

[@Hilesmith1]

+msattler111 Hank started out with Sterling Records and ended up with MGM Records.

[@neetnbilly]

Hile Smith ,

[@jimcarter1388]

msattler111 okay. this post is from two yrs ago, and I was 59 yrs old two yrs ago, so I definitely know that msattler111 could not have seen Hank at Sun Studios. Hank died 3 years before I was born. Now, with Sun Records being started in 1950, I guess that it's possible that Hank might have paid them a visitin Memphis, but as far as I know, Hank recorded only on the Sterling and MGM labels.

[@f379986]

It seems people don’t acknowledge his severe health problems with his back. That’s what started the snowball down the hill with alcohol & drugs. Anyone in chronic pain knows how bad it can be. To accomplish what he did in spite of all is amazing. Such a sad story.

[@Brianvanmoustache]

without jimmie rogers none of this would exist

[@imyourrealdad.6071]

Don't forget about the Carter Family.

[@royclary3969]

Jimmy built the motor hank made it run.

[@jimmymyers1152]

All the rap crazy rock music will pass hank will be nb 1 forever in music period

[@tommartinez7194]

Hank in addition to Roy Acuff, Rufus Payne (Teetot), Gospel Music and Ernest Tubb had one more influence not mentioned. Jimmie Rodgers (the Singing Brakeman).

[@beetleburps]

And can't forget old Emmett Miller!

[@Dave-zl2ky]

That combination of country and blues in missing in country music today. Hank's son and grandson don't have it either.

[@maldelus]

I believe I'll listen to and watch all the parts now.

[@terrysmith7956]

he must have been the best song writer /singer of all time

[@sandyotelli8886]

Sweet Country Daddy and Celtic Queen Dolly 's Master👰🙏Lord how we know this heavy cross of yours as your back bones hurted so much😿😫yet you always kept this strong belief .💜🀄that makes you even more admirable we remember too you united every Buddy and still does👼🐴🐈🎸👻😉

[@dstorm7752]

George Jones was the greatest country singer, and proved it for decades longer, but Hank was a seminal figure and without peer as a songwriter.

[@Luke-pk9fe]

George Jones had a good voice. Willy Nelson wrote good songs Hank Williams was the best singer and song writer

[@lulubelleish]

Bugga that tee tock...... Hank 's Heart was in the right place ... You can tell by the word's he wrote ..!

[@ronniebishop2496]

Hanks Cold Cold Heart was the first song I learned. Now all of these people talking about Hank like he’s the corner stone, but yet none today write or sing about things he did. Today’s artists are shallow as a country stream. Actually a dry creek bed.

[@ustheserfs]

Just massive and everything that arrived in his wake is in the inescapable shadow that is Hiram Hank Williams.

[@monmixer]

Most everyone else on the Opry was drinking also but they did show up and perform.

[@bubbahazelitt1612]

r.i.p hank Williams💯

[@judysetran9198]

thank you this upload I really enjoyed it

[@ConnieAllen-n4y]

Great music

[@patriciaabraham4728]

merci beaucoup jadore je danse le country

[@leonstancliff7218]

You lost me when you drove a Cadillac through the California desert and tried to tell me it was W VA !

[@sunnygirl87]

"Trouble is there ain't no light, there just ain't no light," said to friend Minnie Pearl, Sarah Colley Cannon.

[@msattler111]

Who could say that love as much as life did not kill Hank......not a heart attack , but heartbreak? Modern medical history cannot understand what the mind can do to the body in times when all else is lost to a basic human soul.

[@garlynbazen1379]

Jimmyrodgers

[@codeyhodges6380]

Amen

[@jennievertefeuille7782]

Absolutely heartBREAK

[@Gail1Marie]

Wasn't it an overdose that killed him? I can sure understand if it is, given the amount of pain he was in.

[@glennweeks7176]

Yeah I think it wasn't a heart attack that killed him ....it was heartbreak...tortured soul no doubt.. he was a shining star that burned out too soon...

[@mangot589]

Glenn Weeks I’m sure the morphine and booze helped🤷‍♀️. Very sad.

[@lordofthemound3890]

Ernest Tubb doing a Chuck Berry song! Chuck always said he was influenced by Country Music-you can really hear it in his early singles, like “Maybellene” and “Thirty Days.”

[@2emeraldeyes]

Hank is who they fashioned Woody after ;) So cute

[@USA24541]

Hank is who every single country singer has tried to fashion themselves after.

[@myrtlewallace9150]

Hi

[@parson7260]

@@myrtlewallace9150 Hi

[@alexbennett3697]

Hank the 3rd looks just like hank sr

[@royclary3969]

U can say what you want to but old hank was is all Way's will be the best country singer that ever walked up to a mike .old hank should be called the king .he is to me.

[@RandyH400]

Hank Sr. & Jr r great Hank 3 is very good

[@sidbrandt6711]

Speaking about 3, he is the image of Sr.

[@sammyscotch9945]

Hank jr is a disgusting person

[@imagrandpa]

Hank Sr, then Elvis

[@yahwehyhwh6136]

imagrandpa no...frank sinatra. Before any of these men we love. There was frank...I’ve heard before Elvis there was nothing. No...before frank Sinatra there was nothing!!!!

[@rogeralsop3479]

Wonderful!

[@Morobi1]

Interesting music history.

[@baldy194859]

there will never be another Hank Williams, but Hank 3 comes pretty close !

[@dbert7063]

1 of my favorites is MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS I had a nosey neighbor, i would play it from my car with all the doors and trunk open! Mr. Pervert got the message. I actually caught him looking in my window with binoculars. Jerk, he moved eventually, because he burned all his bridges and his handful of friends

[@Malkmusianful]

christ, steve earle looks really young here

[@brucecullum398]

two of the greatest Hank Williams and Keith Whitley both die young from alcohol so sad

[@joemanpjg]

91 dislike losers.....Hank was the best and will never be replaced... Up in Heaven singing away, my Mother and Father in the front row...

[@mten8965]

Hank you are a good man🕇

[@corinneyaworski5274]

Not sure if Audrey really loved him, but then, it's hard to love a drinker.

[@shawnmichaels8573]

you do understand Audrey who HELPED hank Williams drink himself to death was a drunk also do you and died from it ????what a dumbass

[@Gail1Marie]

The man was drinking and using morphine to control the pain from spina bifida occulta -- give the man a break already!

[@dguynes5424]

God keep you hank only you could know the pain you were in after audrey

[@jorgen-55]

Hank was vastly superior to Roy Acuff. Can´t stand listening to that man.

[@HeavyJ713]

To me there's Hank there's Patsy there's Johnny Cash and then there's e everyone else

[@peterwood-jenkins3634]

Everything about Hank fits his personality Alcoholic, Drifter, Lonely, Just like the Blacks when they invented The Blues as an escape from their oppressed lives by Greedy uncaring WHITES YES Hank had it tough he was no University Boy or educated White pretending to be a Hill Billy yes he met Rufus Pain the black blues street singer and that was the style that influenced him

[@ladydruyear]

How do you feel about the English actor Tom Hiddleston playing Hank Williams in the upcoming movie "I Saw The Light".

[@TheFarmerfitz]

as long as he's good and they get the story right...

[@nadyarossi5102]

ladydruyear I thought Tom Hiddleston did an amazing job given the fact that he's British. no one can ever replicate the great Hank Williams.

[@thumper999x9]

I thought he was amazing as well.

[@harrydeanbentzel]

ladydruyear Very disappointed. Gimme George Hamilton

[@cherylwebb8340]

Very strange having the British play our people. Haven't seen it though. loved George Hamilton too.

[@Des71]

Corporalhenshaw, I greatly enjoy these documentaries you take the time to post. Is there a reason why all the episodes are not available on mobile platforms (iPhone, Apple TV) ? It would be great if you could. Thank you.

[@corporalhenshaw]

I think that it depends on the various copyright agreements in force.

[@mjy325]

* Ty posting

[@bradderz1357]

The rest of this, not available on.mobile. Dam. Brilliant though

[@williamodom924]

He was internationally

[@codeyhodges6380]

Y'all are some of the most self centered sob. Hank made every one of ya. He was and still is the king of the poor white mans blues. And define of all country music. Up to date.