Hank Thompson In The Studio, On The Road (LP)

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Hank Thompson: In The Studio, On The Road (LP)

(1989/See For Miles) 26 tracks - Rare 'See For Miles' LP with Capitol recordings from 1956 to 1966, including 14 live tracks, recorded at the 'Texas State Fair' in 1963!

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Interpret: Hank Thompson
Album titlle: In The Studio, On The Road (LP)
Genre Country
Label SEE FOR MILES
Geschwindigkeit 33 U/min
Vinyl record size LP (12 Inch)
Record Grading Mint (M)
Sleeve Grading Mint (M)
Artikelart LP
EAN: 5014661026311
weight in Kg 0.21

Thompson, Hank - In The Studio, On The Road (LP) LP 1
01	John Henry	Hank Thompson
02	Crying In The Deep Blue Sea	Hank Thompson
03	You'll Be The One	Hank Thompson
04	Hang Your Head In Shame	Hank Thompson
05	There's No You	Hank Thompson
06	Give A Little, Take A Little	Hank Thompson
07	Summit Ridge Drive	Hank Thompson
08	Shot Gun Boogie	Hank Thompson
09	September In The Rain	Hank Thompson
10	Warm Red Wine	Hank Thompson
11	Total Stranger	Hank Thompson
12	Honky Tonk Town	Hank Thompson
13	Welcome To The Fair Introduction	Hank Thompson
14	Deep In The Heart Of Texas	Hank Thompson
15	My Heart Is A Playground	Hank Thompson
16	Charmaine	Hank Thompson
17	How Many Teardrops	Hank Thompson
18	New Wears Off Too Fast	Hank Thompson
19	Rub A Dub Dub	Hank Thompson
20	Beautiful Texas	Hank Thompson
21	We Will Start It All Over	Hank Thompson
22	River Road 2 Step	Hank Thompson
23	Texas Fight Song	Hank Thompson
24	I Cast A Lonesome Shadow	Hank Thompson
25	Simple Simon	Hank Thompson
26	There's A Little Bit Of Everything	Hank Thompson

Hank Thompson HANK THOMPSON Everything about Hank Thompson was modern. He was... more

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"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.

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