This Hank Williams song drips with pain and loneliness, and indeed it should. The singer was visiting Audrey in the hospital, and leaned down to kiss his wife, when she turned away and lashed out to him. He took his pain and wounded pride, went home, and wrote this timeless classic, w...
Old country tunes to flow at county fair; Dubuque:Jett Williams will sing Hank Williams Sr. songsJOHN EVERLY
4. The top-shelf musicianship of Gill and Franklin offer an adept nod to the talents of not only Price, but his Cherokee Cowboys — previously known as the “Drifting Cowboys,” which Price inherited and then renamed following the death of Hank Williams, Sr., and a band which ...
Speaking of false modesty, Cohen wrote in “Tower Of Song” about residing a hundred floors below Hank Williams in that exalted edifice. After this annus horribilis for music fans, that tower seems to be getting more and more crowded with legends gone too soon. But Leonard warned us way bac...
Jackson wrote "Jim" himself and it returns the legend to the two-steppin' beat for which he is best-known, after a detour through gospel and bluegrass. If you're gonna turn to Jim Beam, Jack Daniels and Hank Williams (both Jr. and Sr.) to mend a broken heart (she even took the ...
Both men attempted lead vocals on “Ooh La La,” a sprightly sing-along Lane wrote with guitarist Ron Wood, which wasn't an unusual move in the band's world. Producer Glyn Johns rejected each in turn, choosing instead Wood, who had never fronted the Faces on record before. Where Lang ...
"I wrote it. I didn't fail. It was straight," Bob Dylan said of his greatest song shortly after he recorded it in June 1965. There is no better description of "Like a Rolling Stone" - of its revolutionary design and execution - or of the young man, just turned 24, who created it...
Otis Redding wrote "Respect" and recorded it first, for the Volt label in 1965. But Aretha Franklin took possession of the song for all time with her definitive cover, made at Atlantic's New York studio on Valentine's Day 1967. "Respect" was her first Number One hit and the single tha...
Jim Steinman, the mad genius who wrote “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now,” said he was inspired by the novel Wuthering Heights, and compared it to “Heathcliff digging up Cathy’s corpse and dancing with it in the cold moonlight.” This is important to remember, because there is no...
“I had been into ballet as a little girl, and sewed patches on Elton’s jackets and jeans,” she said. When Taupin and John had arrived in L.A. in late 1970, Feibelman so beguiled Taupin that he wrote the rapturous “Tiny Dancer” for her. John’s skyrocketing melody got a little...