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Thread ID: 13488 | Posts: 13 | Started: 2004-05-01
2004-05-01 22:55 | User Profile
(if he kisses jewish ass)
Hank (Rodney King) Williams Jr.'s new video, "Why Can't We All Get A Long Neck?" here: [url]http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/williams_jr_hank/artist.jhtml#[/url]
Steppin' and fetchin' for Marse Rothstein here: [url]http://www.cmt.com/shows/dyn/making_the_video/81498/episode.jhtml[/url]
2004-05-01 23:30 | User Profile
I don't think Hank Jr. has given anything but dishonor to the way his dad was. Sure, Sr. lived rough, but I don't think he betrayed who he was, for the sake of profit. Jr. is for sale.
2004-05-01 23:47 | User Profile
It's a long way to fall, from the observant, problem-solving White man you see in "A Country Boy Can Survive", to the confused weakling you see in "Why Can't We All Get A Long Neck?" Maybe it's age, but he doesn't look that old.
2004-05-01 23:52 | User Profile
Listen to Sr. sing his guts out, and then listen to Jr. I don't think Jr. ever subscribed to the country boy life...just sings what sells. He sure doesn't sing with the soul of the old school artists he claims to be part of.
2004-05-05 21:50 | User Profile
[QUOTE=All Old Right]Listen to Sr. sing his guts out, and then listen to Jr. I don't think Jr. ever subscribed to the country boy life...just sings what sells. He sure doesn't sing with the soul of the old school artists he claims to be part of.[/QUOTE]
The only thing Junior has to his name is the now six-feet-into-the-ground opening theme to [B]Monday Night Football[/B] .
2004-05-25 17:46 | User Profile
[QUOTE=All Old Right]I don't think Hank Jr. has given anything but dishonor to the way his dad was. Sure, Sr. lived rough, but I don't think he betrayed who he was, for the sake of profit. Jr. is for sale.[/QUOTE]
It's unfortunate, but true I'm afraid. I still love Jr.'s stuff from the late 70s, but in the mid-80s he kind of became a caricature of himself.
But, the good news is his boy, better known as Hank Williams III, or Hank III. This boy is no corporate CMT sell-out I assure you. He does it the way his grandfather did and his album "Lovesick, Broke and Driftin" is a true classic from start to finish. In any kind of just world, his song "Five Shots of Whiskey" would have stayed at number one on the country charts for some time. Other outstanding tracks are "Walkin' with Sorrow", "Whiskey, Weed and Women", and "Callin' Your Name."
If you like your country pure, hard and undistilled in the 40s and early 50s honky-tonk vein like I do, then go out and pick this album up. You won't be sorry.
2004-05-25 17:59 | User Profile
Hank III is definitely his own man. I think he plays in a metal band, too.
2004-05-25 23:56 | User Profile
A few years ago at Robert's in Nashville- it's the place with used boots for sale around the walls- I sat down and chewed the fat with some regulars on a crowded night and discussed the usual house band BR-549. A while later, the friendly guy to the left jumped up- "Jason Ringenberg, git up here"- and did a guest rip of three Scorcher's songs. That kind of atmosphere doesn't seem to exist in Nashville today. I checked into the Renaissance a few weeks ago just before the CMT awards show was starting, and thought I'd found some sort of misdirected MTV freak show trooping through the lobby. The show aired live across the street in the Gaylord monstrosity, and a sweet Dolly bluegrass number was followed by some show-ending rap-style act complete with doorags and dumbass hiphop moves.
Corporate Nashville hasn't ever been about real music, but this decline is surely a sad turn of events.
2004-05-26 00:23 | User Profile
There's precious little good country music being made these days, and even less coming out of Nashville. When I want twang, I usually turn to the older stuff, or to bluegrass.
2004-05-26 01:03 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Quantrill]There's precious little good country music being made these days, and even less coming out of Nashville. When I want twang, I usually turn to the older stuff, or to bluegrass.[/QUOTE]
If you have MSN radio, go to "alternative country." some of it is atrocious, but a lot of it is the best country I have heard in a while. Dwight Yoakum, Lucinda Williams, and no matter what you think of his politics, you have to admit that Steve Earle is one heck of a talent. Also heard Hank III there for the first time.
2004-05-26 02:42 | User Profile
[QUOTE=GaConfed]If you have MSN radio, go to "alternative country." some of it is atrocious, but a lot of it is the best country I have heard in a while. Dwight Yoakum, Lucinda Williams, and no matter what you think of his politics, you have to admit that Steve Earle is one heck of a talent. Also heard Hank III there for the first time.[/QUOTE]
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2004-05-26 03:19 | User Profile
That's a great station you got there Wiesbot. Also like the info on the website about live music happening up that way. It tempts me greatly to get in the pregnant skateboard and chugalug up that way one of these times, as I don't live but a few hours away.
2004-05-26 13:51 | User Profile
[QUOTE=weisbrot]Check out the webcast...
[url="http://www.wdvx.com/"]http://www.wdvx.com/[/url]
WDVX is a grass roots radio station. Now broadcasting from The Village of Arcadian Springs in Andersonville, Tennessee. [/QUOTE] Weisbrot, you beat me to it! WDVX broadcasts from the Knoxville area (right where I live), so I can listen to it in my car with no problems. It really is a great station, and I can't say enough good things about it. They are completely funded by donations, and until recently, they were literally broadcasting out of a camper at a campground in Clinton. The DJs would always joke about somebody performing "way down the hall in studio B." I had forgotten that they had a webcast of the station. One of my favorite shows is Cumberland Sunday Morning, which is all old-timey (although not all old) bluegrass gospel tunes. Good stuff.