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Topic: Lost Hank Williams recordings found |
Steve Green
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Posted 22 May 2014 11:34 am |
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Saw this posted on WonderingSound.com. The article says that Hank is NOT backed by the Drifting Cowboys (Don Helms, etc.) on these newly found radio transcriptions, but an uncredited steel player who "jabs insistently rather than slashing periodically, on two versions of “Lovesick Blues†(the first of which is more aggressive and has a more Hawaiian feel)."
I'm anxious to give it a listen.
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Erv Niehaus
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Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 22 May 2014 12:19 pm
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| If the songs had a Hawaiian feel, the steel player might have been Jerry Byrd. He played steel on a couple of Hank's early records. |
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Greg Cutshaw
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Corry, PA, USA
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Ron Whitfield
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Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 22 May 2014 12:56 pm
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| Erv Niehaus wrote: |
| Jerry Byrd played steel on a couple of Hank's early records. |
Make that an even dozen of Hank's tunes that include Jerry. |
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Bill Hatcher
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Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 22 May 2014 1:36 pm
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| this is a radio show. doesnt sound like jerry byrd. lot of little roy wiggins stuff on "at the first fall of snow". the audio is good! hank is still the greatest!! |
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Jerome Hawkes
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Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 22 May 2014 1:40 pm
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"The uncredited steel player here is super busy by comparison, jabbing insistently rather than slashing periodically, on two versions of “Lovesick Blues†(the first of which is more aggressive and has a more Hawaiian feel)"
from the brief clips, i'd say that isn't jerry byrd...i don't hear any byrdisms.
a good steeler nonetheless
i'm no Hank Williams scholar, but JB says they cut "Lovesick Blues" in 1 take just days after HW had written it. they had about 10mins left on the session they were doing and HW pulled it out - JB said it was awful and never thought it would go anywhere....
a few years ago, i got to perform in the Hank Williams play "Lost Highway" - we had a lot of fun & i enjoyed playing those steel parts (thanks to Clyde Maddocks making sure i had them dead on). there were quite a few folks that came up after the shows surprised at the sound they had heard their entire life and didn't know what the instrument was 
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Bill Hatcher
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Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 22 May 2014 1:49 pm
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| from colin escot....Escott tells USA Today. “The sound quality’s astonishingly good, certainly on a par with his studio recordings, because they were done in the same studio. It sounds like Cousin Jody playing steel guitar, playing a lot of steel guitar. Hank loved Don Helms, because Don didn’t play a lot of steel guitar. He kept it simple. So when you’re hearing Lovesick Blues with the very busy fills, it’s like hearing it anew.†|
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Gary Meixner
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New York, USA
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Posted 22 May 2014 3:08 pm
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Jerome,
Was Hank actually given credit for writing Lovesick Blues? It was recorded many years earlier by Emmett Miller and His Georgia Crackers. The band included the Dorsey Bros. and Eddie Lang. Miller is a fascinating character and Bob Wills credited Miller as being a major influence of his. Columbia reissued a number of Miller classics on CD which is fantastic and well worth having if you can find it.
I love what you say about your experiences playing steel for the play "Lost Highway" where fans would comment about never knowing what instrument made those wonderful sounds. Both Don's and Jerry's playing on those original recordings is perfection. What a great experience for you to have an opportunity to share in their brilliance.
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Jerome Hawkes
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Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
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Posted 22 May 2014 3:43 pm
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Gary - you are correct - if memory serves me, he had just done the song recently (maybe only 1 time) live and got such a great reception he decided to cut it with the time they had left in the session. i assumed he had written that.
i wish i could recall the JB story from the session - it is interesting - if you listen to the cut (its been a while for me) you can hear the band is very loose & not really sure of what to do, they just followed Hank - JB said it was hard to follow him. again, this was done as a toss off track with the remanding session time and they probably didn't think much of its potential.
its revealing that HW didn't write that - i always thought that was a fairly "advanced" harmonic structure for a honky tonk song - the fact it came from tin pan alley answers that question
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Ron Whitfield
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Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 22 May 2014 5:35 pm
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| Jerome Hawkes wrote: |
| JB said it was hard to follow him. |
Hank had quality in him but it was hard for Nashville's A team to see it, and when Hank told them about the break "when I do this (exaggerates a foot stomp) you stop", eyes rolled everywhere. |
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Russ Wever
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Kansas City
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Posted 22 May 2014 7:30 pm
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| Gary Meixner wrote: |
. . Lovesick Blues? It was recorded many years earlier
by Emmett Miller and His Georgia Crackers. . . |
Also recorded well before Hank by Rex Griffin ~> Click
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Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 23 May 2014 9:51 am
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I can't wait to get my hands on the CD. Hank Williams was, to my mind, the greatest country singer that ever lived.  |
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Sonny Jenkins
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Texas Masonic Retirement Center,,,Arlington Tx
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Posted 23 May 2014 10:13 am
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I remember hearing the black, or handicapped, or vagrant street entertainers,,, guitar players, harp players, fiddle players,,,lap steel,,,even "dancers",,that used to play the streets in Lubbock do that song, and many others, when I was a kid. I would hang and listen to them for hours,,,,some were very talented. Many songs were passed around from one to another,,,then years later would be heard on radio or juke box,,,with some "star" taking credit for it.
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Tommi Toijonen
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Kouvola, Finland
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Posted 23 May 2014 10:16 am
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| The Rex Griffin version obviously is the exact version Hank got his. |
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Steve Green
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Gulfport, MS, USA
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James Hartman
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Pennsylvania, USA
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