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Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys: Swing Wide Your Gate Of Love (CD)

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Thompson, Hank - Swing Wide Your Gate Of Love (CD) CD 1
01 Humpty Dumpty Heart Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys
02 Today Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys
03 Don't Flirt With Me Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys
04 Rock In The Ocean Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys
05 California Women Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys
06 Tomorrow Night Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys
07 Whoa Sailor Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys
08 Soft Lips Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys
09 The Grass Looks Greener Over Yonder Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys
10 I Find You Cheatin' On Me Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys
11 You Broke My Heart In Little Bitty Pieces) Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys
12 My Heart Is A Jigsaw Puzzle Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys
13 Take A Look At This Broken Heart Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys
14 Give A Little Take A Little Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys
15 Swing Wide Your Gate Of Love Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys
16 My Front Door Is Open Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys
17 The Wild Side Of Life Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys
18 Waiting In The Lobby Of Your Heart Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys
19 The New Wears Off Too Fast Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys
20 You're Walking On My Heart Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys
21 No Help Wanted Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys
22 A Broken Heart And A Glass Of Beer Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys
23 New Roving Gambler Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys
24 Wake Up Irene Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys
25 Rub-A-Dub-Dub Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys
Hank Thompson  HANK THOMPSON Everything about Hank Thompson was modern. He was... more
"Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys"

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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Tracklist
Thompson, Hank - Swing Wide Your Gate Of Love (CD) CD 1
01 Humpty Dumpty Heart
02 Today
03 Don't Flirt With Me
04 Rock In The Ocean
05 California Women
06 Tomorrow Night
07 Whoa Sailor
08 Soft Lips
09 The Grass Looks Greener Over Yonder
10 I Find You Cheatin' On Me
11 You Broke My Heart In Little Bitty Pieces)
12 My Heart Is A Jigsaw Puzzle
13 Take A Look At This Broken Heart
14 Give A Little Take A Little
15 Swing Wide Your Gate Of Love
16 My Front Door Is Open
17 The Wild Side Of Life
18 Waiting In The Lobby Of Your Heart
19 The New Wears Off Too Fast
20 You're Walking On My Heart
21 No Help Wanted
22 A Broken Heart And A Glass Of Beer
23 New Roving Gambler
24 Wake Up Irene
25 Rub-A-Dub-Dub