The last track on the album “Jesus Won't You Come By Here,” the only religious song on the record and penned by Lightnin' Hopkins, was a song Williams loved for decades. After all the debaucherous blues, he sings, “Jesus, won't you come by here/Down on my knees t...
Hank Williams: The Man and His Music (1980) (TV Special) - Composer Jak se vám líbí? (1980) (TV Special) - Music ("Jambalaya") One Life to Live (1980) (TV Series) - Writer ("I Saw the Light") (1 episode, 1980) Grand Ole Opry - Part Two (六月 20, 1980) Seaso...
The peak years of Hank Williams's career were 1950 and 1951. He was one of the most successful touring acts in country music. Every one of his records charted, except for those issued as Luke the Drifter and his religious duets with Audrey. Starting with "Honky Tonkin'" in 1949, his ...
Hank Williams is more than just a singer and composer; he can be credited, with the equally legendary Roy Acuff, of being a founder of country music. His songs emphasize the poetic beauty of romantic misery. Such Williams classics as “Your Cheatin’ Heart” and “I’m So Lonesome I Coul...
Williams also followed the Southern country tradition of writing spiritual ballads. Songs like “At the Cross,”“I’m Going Home,” and "Jesus Won’t You Come By Here,” testified to his search for some kind of religious longing. His most popular, “I Saw the Light,” became the title...
Williams and Daniels continue to hit them head on. They did it through all eight years of Obama’s presidency, as if such political criticism was akin to recording one of their defiant songs of individualism. So don’t expect them to ease up now that Trump is in the White Hou...
and survive. And Frankie just did not have that discipline or the drive to save himself. And it was tragic. His death was tragic, unnecessary – as was the death of every member of Crime. [The deaths of Ricky Williams, Brittley Black, and Frankie Fix] were drug-related and very, very...
Who Was Hank Williams? Hank Williams is considered one of the most popular American country music singer/songwriters with songs like "Cold, Cold Heart," "Your Cheatin' Heart," "Hey, Good Lookin'" and "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive." He died of a heart attack at the age of...
Who Was Hank Williams? Hank Williams is considered one of the most popular American country music singer/songwriters with songs like "Cold, Cold Heart," "Your Cheatin' Heart," "Hey, Good Lookin'" and "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive." He died of a heart attack at the age of...
Hank Williams: The Man and His Music (1980) (TV Special) - Composer Jak se vám líbí? (1980) (TV Special) - Music ("Jambalaya") One Life to Live (1980) (TV Series) - Writer ("I Saw the Light") (1 episode, 1980) Grand Ole Opry - Part Two (六月 20, 1980) Seaso...