Hank Thompson Hank Thompson & Friends (CD)
* incl. VAT / plus shipping costsDepending on the country of delivery, the VAT at checkout may vary.
Item is temporarily out of stock.
Approx. delivery time: up to 3 weeks. (as far as available at the supplier - can be faster, but sometimes unfortunately not)
- catalog number:CDHOTR4251
- weight in Kg 0.1
Hank Thompson: Hank Thompson & Friends (CD)
Hank Thompson has sold over 6o million records internationally Hank Thompson headlined the first Country Music Show to ever play Las Vegas.
The legendary -Live At The Golden Nugget" was the first Live Country Music Album ever recorded .1 Hank Thompson was the first music act to receive corporate tour sponsorship .
Hank and his band The Brazos Valley Boys, were the first to do a musical show on color television
and were the first act to tour with a sound and lighting system.
Hank Thompson's Brazos Valley Boys were voted the #1 Country Western Band for 14 years in a row by Billboard Magazine .
Hank's 'Wild Side of Life' paved the way for the first million selling Country record for a female artist, Kitty Wells with the answer song 'It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels'.
Hank Thompson was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1989 and into the Nashville's Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1997
Article properties:Hank Thompson: Hank Thompson & Friends (CD)
Interpret: Hank Thompson
Album titlle: Hank Thompson & Friends (CD)
Genre Country
Artikelart CD
Label Heart Of Texas Records
EAN: 0687748142515
- weight in Kg 0.1
Thompson, Hank - Hank Thompson & Friends (CD) CD 1 | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
01 | Six Pack To Go (Vince Gill) | Hank Thompson | ||
02 | Get The Hell Out Of Dodge (David Ball) | Hank Thompson | ||
03 | Gotta' Sell Them Chickens (Junior Brown) | Hank Thompson | ||
04 | I Picked A San Antonio Rose (Bekka Bramlett) | Hank Thompson | ||
05 | Sobering Up | Hank Thompson | ||
06 | Green Light (Marty Stuart) | Hank Thompson | ||
07 | Hey George, Hey Hank (George Jones) | Hank Thompson | ||
08 | Been Down That Road (Joe Diffie) | Hank Thompson | ||
09 | I'll Still Be Here Tomorrow | Hank Thompson | ||
10 | Hooked On Honky Tonk (Brooks & Dunn) | Hank Thompson | ||
11 | Total Stranger (Lyle Lovett) | Hank Thompson | ||
12 | The Wild Side Of Life Medley (Kitty Wells & Tanya Tucker) | Hank Thompson | ||
13 | Dry Bread (Delaney & Bonnie) | Hank Thompson | ||
14 | The Bluest Rose In Texas Tonight | Hank Thompson |
Hank Thompson
HANK THOMPSON
Everything about Hank Thompson was modern. He was one of the first country singers to record on audio tape, the first to record a live album. For years, he flew his own plane to shows. Sick of dealing with crappy dancehall sound systems, he designed and built his own. Handed a coveted membership in the Grand Ole Opry in 1949, soured by the low pay and Nashville's musical conservatism, he quickly went back to his native Texas.
Actually, the Waco-born Thompson grew up favoring Gene Autry, the Carter Family, Vernon Dalhart, Jimmie Rodgers, Ernest Tubb and the Opry over the locally generated Western Swing of the Light Crust Doughboys and Milton Brown. After he got his first guitar in 1935 at age ten, his singing won so many amateur shows at the Waco Theater that by the time he was in high school, WACO gave him a Monday-Friday morning radio show as 'Hank The Hired Hand.' He did the final broadcast in January, 1943, the morning he left for the Navy. Home in 1946, studying toward a degree (and career) in electronics, he began playing Tubb-influenced honky tonk with his new band, the Brazos Valley Boys. By fall, he had his first regional hit, Whoa Sailor, on the local Globe label. A year later, after opening for Tex Ritter in Waco, Ritter recommended Hank to Capitol where Humpty Dumpty Heart became his first national hit in 1948.
Quick to adapt to changing realities, and aiming at the dancehall circuit, Hank directed guitarist Billy Gray to reinvent the Brazos Valley Boys as a danceable Western Swing-influenced outfit, minus the jazzy instrumental solos he never cared for. Dissatisfied with the small crowds he drew performing around Dallas, he relocated to Oklahoma City in 1951, by then boasting a sound as identifiable as Lefty Frizzell's or Ray Price's. He was blending his jovial honky tonk vocals with swing-flavored accompaniment. The band's high standards earned them awards for over a decade. From 1953 on, his buddy Merle Travis played on nearly all Hank's sessions and on a good many tours.
Hank's way with a ballad was apparent on his biggest hit, his 1952 cover of Jimmie Heap's The Wild Side Of Life, which inspired the answer song, It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels (Kitty Wells's first hit). He further demonstrated his ballad skills on I'll Sign My Heart Away and other numbers. Nonetheless, he made his reputation on upbeat bounces like Wake Up Irene, Rub-A-Dub-Dub, A Fooler A Faker, Honky Tonk Girl and A Six Pack To Go. His hits helped keep the Western Swing sound alive during the '50s and '60s when it was largely out of favor.
Jim Halsey, who became Hank's manager in 1952, brought new ideas to the table like Hank's longtime relationship with Falstaff Beer in a day when corporate sponsorship of country acts was rare. Halsey suggested Capitol record Hank onstage at the Golden Nugget in Vegas in 1961—making him the first country artist to record a live album. Hank parted ways with Capitol in 1964. After two years with Warner Bros., he spent 13 years with Dot/MCA, recording in Nashville. The Dot era brought a few major hits. Nonetheless, while reflecting on his recording career in the book accompanying Bear Family's Thompson box set, he concluded, "I’d play one of those Dot records then drop one of those old Capitols on, and it was all the difference in the world between the presence and quality of the Capitols and what Dot put out."The Country Music Hall Of Fame inducted him in 1989.
Hank, who settled in Keller, Texas, northwest of Dallas, remained on the road, performing with local bands after dissolving the Brazos Valley Boys. His later albums included 1997’s 'Hank Thompson And Friends,'an underpromoted all-star effort on Curb, and HighTone's far superior 'Seven Decades,' released in 2000. Like fellow Hall of Famer Porter Wagoner, he literally continued until the end. At times, he'd appear with the Brazos Valley Boys, who'd reformed as an independent band, and billed more recent shows as part of his 'Sunset Tour.' He headlined a show back in Waco on October 8, 2007, proclaimed by Texas' governor as 'Hank Thompson Day.' Late that month, doctors discovered fast-moving, terminal lung cancer. He announced his retirement November 4; two days later, he was gone. In lieu of a funeral, friends and fans assembled at Billy Bob's Texas in Fort Worth on November 14 to celebrate his remarkable life and career. In 2008, Bear Family will release a 33 track Thompson collection as part of its 'Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight' series.
A great CD
This is a marvellous CD with a veritable cavalcade of stars joining Hank Thompson for a festival of western swing's greatest hits. We have Vince Gill joining Hank for Six Pack To Go, David Ball with Get The Hell Out Of Dodge and lots lots more. Another highlight is when Kitty Wells and Tanya Tucker joing in with Wild Side Of Life / It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels. The musicianship is great throughout and the audio quality is excellent. Just buy it folks !
Ready to ship today, delivery time** appr. 1-3 workdays
Ready to ship today, delivery time** appr. 1-3 workdays
Ready to ship today, delivery time** appr. 1-3 workdays
only 1x still available
Ready to ship today, delivery time** appr. 1-3 workdays
Item has to be restocked
Ready to ship today, delivery time** appr. 1-3 workdays
Ready to ship today, delivery time** appr. 1-3 workdays
Ready to ship today, delivery time** appr. 1-3 workdays
Ready to ship today, delivery time** appr. 1-3 workdays
Ready to ship today, delivery time** appr. 1-3 workdays
Ready to ship today, delivery time** appr. 1-3 workdays
Ready to ship today, delivery time** appr. 1-3 workdays
Ready to ship today, delivery time** appr. 1-3 workdays
This article is deleted and can no longer be ordered!
Ready to ship today, delivery time** appr. 1-3 workdays
Item has to be restocked
Ready to ship today, delivery time** appr. 1-3 workdays
This article is deleted and can no longer be ordered!