Hank Williams: Copied by Elvis, praised by Lennon and Jagger, idolized by Dylan, Berry and Cash
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Your favorite songwriter's favorite songwriter and the most influential composer since Beethoven. Story of Alabama country western legend Hank Williams.
Hank Williams was a poet equal to any great poet. His pain in music and southern gospel of Luke the drifter was where made the poet. " The light of a falling star, lights up a purple sky. And as I wonder where you are. I'm so lonesome I could cry.''
The Grateful Dead were also huge fans of Hank.
Distillers followed by Hank Williams, it’s official you’re my musical brother. I remember when this was a Rancid channel and that was cool enough but you keep hitting me with all the music that means the most to me. Love what you do dude! Please keep em coming
Very excellent presentation about a very important performer.
Fantastic. You are really good at this. Your uploads always leave me wanting more.
Not about to believe Elvis ripping Hank Williams. Elvis did a version of I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry to honor him
I agree. Elvis never "ripped or copied Hank Williams." Elvis' version of I'm so Lonesome I could Cry was Elvis' own interpretation, not a copy. Influenced somewhat. Elvis also recorded a version of Your Cheatin Heart, which wasn't a great version. Elvis also famously recited Williams' These Men with Broken Hearts" Prior to singing Joe South's Walk A Mile In My Shoes.
Hank Williams unapologetically country
I meant how rockstars pulled his songs and how he influenced them. But maybe the thumbnail's confusing with the 'rocknroll'. I'll try a different thumbnail with 'country' instead, that's a good idea.
@@PunkTomedo one on Woodie Guthrie. Folk music icon
Excellent channel.
Great video matey!!! Cheers from the UK!
Boris Badinov narrated Hank Williams life, wow
Moose and squirrel better watch out!
Many legends have kept his songs alive. What would we do without Hank?
Lonesome is one of my favorites
Boy, I could do without his grandson.
Both my father and myself loved Hank Williams!
The Dead's cover of You Win Again is the best.
Why do you associate Jambalaya with Alabama? It’s about Cajuns in Louisiana. Jambalaya is a Cajun dish based on the Spanish rice dish paella. Louisiana was at various times a colony of France and Spain then back to France before being sold to the USA.
I would guess because the man who wrote it was from Alabama
The song Jambalaya (on the bayou) being composed by Hank Williams who's from Alabama is his point. Or at least that's how I see it.
@@tomthompson5686 but the song is about Cajun life. He toured there and learned a bit about them. He even uses French words in the song.
@@davidpayne6307 but, that’s not what the song is about. If you want to mention Hank William’s origins from Alabama it’s not necessary to mention that song in particular.
Fun fact- Elvis never wrote a song in his life, while Hank wrote some of the best ever.
It’s amazing. Yet Elvis had like 20 number one hits
Well the rolling stone goes back waaay far. So I bit wrong about that. But good video...and please never show u2 doing hank again. But other than that great video
Elvis was a huge Hank Sr fan what are you saying dude?
Why no featuring of Charley Pride, who probably did the most to preserve Hank's legacy (though probably a bit more refined manner!)?
That wasn’t Unknown Hinson. It was Slim Whitman.
6:53 Lennon's singing is atrocious!
They weren't doing a serious cover in that video lol, just screwing around in the studio.
Hank Williams had nothing to do with Elvis‘ style of clothes or his movements. He did influence his singing style though.
The grandson is such a horrible act.
Occult? Satan? This video is stupid.
hank is a legend
R.I.P.
Hiram King Williams
(1923 - 1953)
I’ve never heard C G D and F sound more soulful and complex
This is where modern song writering started with Hank WAY before Dylan And Lennon and McCartney listen to some of Hanks songs and you can hear the beginnings of RNR inthem like Bill Hayley Rock Around the Clock solo George Thurogood did a cool version of MOVE IT ON OVER rocked it with respect for the song Love Hank One singer and writer who could rip your heart out and good beer drinking music gone but not forgotten which is great SETTIN THE WOODS ON FIRE STILL❤
Hanks songs have the most feeling in country music to me because of the great melodies, and his lyrics are so clearly understood and relatable
When I listen to Hank Williams I'm always amazed at how modern and contemporary it sounds melody wise compared to a lot of artists from the same era. But after seeing this it's obvious why, because he influenced every major songwriter that went on to make contempory popular music.
I love Hank Williams, thank you for this awesome video!
It's not just Hank, it's music in general and Jordan needs to lay off the scrooms. A few weeks ago I was outside strumming my Martin and a fellow from Brazil came over and was mesmerized and impressed. I don't remember what I was singing but it was American based and not Portuguese. He didn't even speak english but he spoke music. I think people just like simple uncluttered music and the singer to bare their soul.
Amen brother. Love the authenticity of a person singing and playing guitar with no frills, no loop pedals, no effects. Just good songs played from the heart.
So far ahead of his time. To think of how much more was to come had he lived longer. Men With Broken Hearts and I'm so Lonesome I could Cry are works of art. Brilliant imagery.
@@TheGreekPoet I agree my dad would have a beer and play Hank my first introduction to music a three year old I was so I was introduced to the best then my oldest brother got a Beatle album and the rest has been a musical journey and it all started with Hank and my dad's singing with him now WELL MY BUCKET GOT A HOLE IN IT / CANT BUY NO BEER ...I GOT THE LOVESICK BLUES .....ON AND ON I COULD GO ,SUCH A GREAT OUT PUT OF REALLY WELL WRITTEN SONGS IN SUCH A SHORT TIME, HANK WAS ONLY 28, HE AND I HAD A LOT IN COMMON , LOST LENNON AT 40, IF HE FELT LIKE I DID HE HAD TO BE HEART BROKEN LIKE I WAS WITH JOHN, LOT IN COMMON WITH HIM. SO LETS NOT LET OUR MUSICAL GENESIS EVER BE FORGOTTEN AND YOU DO THAT BY CRANKING THEIR MUSIC UP TO THE SKY
@@stp1649 Here, here. That's awesome 👍😎👍.
@@TheGreekPoet peace my friend
America used to be a nice place
Greatest artist ever...
Sure wish III would come back 🤘
@@troy_t3843 should be coming back soon from what I’ve heard
I grew up listening to Hank. There is no equal. Someone had to invent modern music. It was Hank.
Hank had tapped into the well. The songs just fell out like water from a facet. They endure even today. "Real" country goes from the happy to the other extreme of sad. Hence the old saying, "If it don't make you cry it ain't countty." "That is what is missing in country music today, no sad songs. That is a tragedy.
Tyats the best description
I was raised in a family who loved music. My grandmother played the piano in our country church, and my mother was a gifted singer. She had me performing at the age of 6. It wasn't until losing my right eye to a work accident at 15 that I began my own pursuit of music. I idolized the Clash, Ramones, Costello, the Damned , and many other 70's / 80's artists, but never lost my love of traditional country. About 99' I had a job with a long commute. I'd purchased a greatest hit 2CD collection of Hank Williams, and found myself singing to it in the truck every day. Soon I was getting the hang of his yodel, and learning his songs for open mic night. This led to writing my own tunes, and expanding into western swing etc. It was confusing for those who'd only know me as a punk/ska/rock player, but in truth I had gone full circle back to my roots. 10 years later I was living in Austin Texas playing with Wayne Hancocks sidemen among others, and I owe it all to Hank Williams. I've shared the stage bill with acts as diverse as social distortion, Fugazi, Quiet Riot, Gin Blossoms, Randy Travis, Billy Joe Shaver, and Willie Nelson to name a few. It wasn't until I tried my hand at country that music really got fun. Thank you Hank, I can never repay you for what you taught me about myself.
Cheers
I grew up listening to classic rock and metal and hated country with a passion. I thought it was so lame. Then about five years ago I was staying at my grandparents' old house alone and bored for a long spell and I decided to check out one of my grandpa's taped of Jimmy Rodgers since I'd heard Ronnie Van Zant of Lynyrd Skynyrd mention the name when they played "T for Texas."
At first, Jimmy's yodels were so alien and foreign to me, I had no idea what to make of it. It sounded so strange to me, almost comical, but fascinating and entertaining. After about a week of listening to that tape every night, I was hooked. When I finally got home I started learning to play some of the songs and it totally changed my world musically. Country taught me how songs are built and put together and taught me how to write songs about everyday life.
I am so delighted that I learned to appreciate country music. Your second or third to last sentence reakly resonated with me. Jimmy and Hank are my favorite country musicians now, but I have much respect for so many. What a great world of music!
These mini docs are terrific! I can’t stop watching them.
I'll take the King of Country-Western Troubadors over that other guy anytime. Lol
And have you covered Townes Van Zant yet?
Townes has to be mentioned anytime great songwriters are brought up, he’s up there with the best.
Excellent brother, 5 star video here. Onda Choc 😆 cheers
TOME TOME TOME PRAISE THE LORD I SAW THE LIGHT. AMEN ❤🙏🙌👍
Thank you. My grandfather played his records for me as a kid. Priceless.
I had to watch this again. My grandpa got me into Hank when I was little. At first I thought it was the worst and I would try to sing like Hank in the car. My Pops would laugh his ass off. After a while I fell in love with the music and it’s stuck with me
Loved this! Great tribute. Thank you! Did I hear right? Hank III was/is a satanist? Hank I would turn over in his grave!
My very first musical influence was Hank Williams thanks DAD!!
Poor sod never knew a day without pain he was a staggering talent with what he had to suffer its no wonder he drank and drugged Nothing could have cured him but a decent doctor probably would have helped a lot
When I was a young boy long ago, my neighbor played his records every day while she cleaned the house. He wrote so many popular songs. Some are still sung.
Best country artist of all timeunsurpassed legacy influences everyone not just country jazz pop and rock just ask George thorogood!
Indeed. There's a lot more country influence in rock than most people recognize.
These songs remind me of growing up in rural Ontario Canada where our small town had community Saturday night dances in the local hall every other week from September to March in the 1960s. Jack Vale Orchestra violin, piano and bass with Waverly Rice on guitar bellering out Hank Williams songs. He always closed the evening with Rambling Rose as the men reluctantly got the ladies coats and shuffled out into the night snow for the drive home. Sighhhh!! Thank you for this!
You are what we in America call a Musicologist, great show.
One of the things I remember from childhood is HW playing on the radio ....thx. 👍
That last clip !!
Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino, and Ray Charles all playing together ~~~
Musical director Paul Shaffer on handclaps... And who else was there ?
Ron Wood from the Rolling Stones is there.
The incomparable Ray Charles
I LOVE ALL 3 HANKS
Buster Scruggs....
Magnificent video.
Caught a “price is right” flashback when the yodelling started
F*ck what Elvis had to say about anyone. How many songs did he write?
The title of this video is so click bait, everyone else was influenced by Hank Williams, but only Elvis copied him…
Amen
Yes very correct lol Elvis just stepped up the leg shaking and stuff another notch and Hank didn't have television to help him
The resemblance. Minnie Pearl told Hank The Third: "Honey you are a ghost."
I have hank williams sr tattooed on my chest
Did not having crying Jordan Peterson on my bingo card for this video. 🤣
That being said, as usual, he’s absolutely right in his analysis of hanks charm as an artist
Music has evolved by the new artists taking what they can from the ones before and adding their own flavour to it; they all do it, every artist copies things from other artists.
Unknown Hinson sold more records than Elvis and The Beatles put together.
Did he really? I've heard this before
Eye roll
Get real
Ha
@Cjohn31 hell no
My beloved dad adored Hank Williams' music and shared it with me to also love and enjoy. Miss you Mom and Dad. ❤❤
Everybody loves Hank.
yoko hanging off john like a literal parasite in that clip
I love Hank's songs, I'm just glad that John Lennon didn't continue to try and emulate him...
Loved this! Very well put together to show how so many artists were influenced by Hank. Thank you and thanks Hank.
Hank was the Bon Scott of his day. He was a Rocker, no matter what anyone tells you.
Dumbest comment I've seen in quite some time.
It’s actually all Emmit Miller iykyk
Fun fact; I used to live 3 blocks away from where Hank began his final ride in Austin Texas. What was at the time (still is I presume) a rite aid pharmacy was where the skyline club once stood. It was also the venue that hosted the last show for Johnny Horton, who at that time was married to Hanks widdow. Johnny Cash was on the bill that night with Horton.
My house was built in 1960, the same year Horton died.
Elvis didn't rip off Hank, he was influenced by his music!
Inl think he meant ripped off if you take it in context.
It means ripped, as in he made recordings of Hank's songs. I misunderstood it at first too. I think few will get the recording industry lingo he was attempting to use in this title.
@@LanceEadsElvis did "covers " of Hank's songs.
Elvis never wrote a single thing, he was more or less useless creatively
@@mollkatless Clearly you've never listened to "Having Fun With Elvis On Stage"... =D
The Beatles were totally manufactured and Lennon was a character in a play.
Thank you for dropping unknown Hinson in here 🙌
Hank Williams is best singer songwriter ever just listen to is music
Hank Williams could be my favourite singer song writers. It's between him and Dolly Parton. So Dolly you're in good company
I've been in the music business since the 80s, but I still misunderstood "ripped" in the title to mean "put down" rather than "recorded" at first. Also, I almost turned it off when I saw that miserable piece of garbage, Jordan Peterson on my screen. Other than that, great work!
Matt Johnson, the creative force behind 80's/90's band TheThe, is so captivated by Hank Williams he did a complete album of Hank Williams covers, "Hanky Panky".
Matt's a genius.
@@wordup897 Absolutely. His first album in more than 20 years is out in the next month.
I haven't finished watching the video yet, but I'd like to encourage you to change "ripped by Elvis" in the title to "influenced Elvis", since it implies Elvis "stole" something, which he clearly did not. Also, just for clarification purposes, while Elvis' version of Your Cheatin' Heart was released in 1965, it was recorded in 1958. In addition, I'm not sure if some of your other points are good examples of links between Hank Williams and Elvis, though I'm not denying that Elvis was definitely influenced by Hank Williams.
It is hard to know who hasn't been influenced by or pulled from Hank Williams.
You forgot to add the best cover ever of lost Highway Tom Petty probably would’ve made Hank proud he did an awesome job you should check it out if you’ve never heard it besides Hank the best I’ve heard ❤
This is the best video essay made on Hank I've seen on UA-cam. Some of these colorizations were done by me would you believe it?! My old channel was AudioRevive, not so much revive as reverb haha! Once again an absolutely wonderful video!!
Song writers today would want to be able to craft words as did Hank; very few, if any,are up to the task!
I love the sound of these old recordings, but I would also be interested to hear them recorded with modern production equipment and methods. I hope this is something that AI will allow us to emulate.
well researched.
He got his training from a black blues musician
elvis music was nothing likes hanks so what did he copy
The greatest country singer songwriter on the planet
The Beatles never performed in the '70s.
Low and lonely was sung on the andy griffith show
Jordan Peterson jump-scare.
Bobby Darin did a wonderful live version of ‘Lonesome Whistle.’
‘Move It On Over’ was used as the melody for ‘Rock Around The Clock’.
That's why Hank is in the rock and roll hall of Fame. Wrote the first wrong song
It's Ernest Tubb,no S in his surname
He made Jordan Peterson cry!
Bob dylan was a fan of hank he has said so many times
RIP Hank 😔
5:25 "Oh, sorry; the other king."
He would be so ashamed of his son!!!
Intriguing.
East European fan of hillbilly music.
West European
Ah so da light also da light.
Where on earth does this commentator come from to say Hank Williams was obsessed by the occult ? The Christian faith is not the occult ! Tell me, Mr. Commentator what is your worldview ?
womern & party liquor