In 1952 I was 6 years old, Hank played Live at the calabrese club, in Westerly RI. I was 6 years old, I went to see him with my uncles and my grandfather. I will never forget it. I remember it like it was yesterday. At my uncle funeral 40 years later the played all of Hank Williams songs, I sat there in tears.
Hank Williams was gone before I was born but a greater talent I have never seen for his young years. Too bad his life was so short. He would have given the world so much more.
i lived this right along with hank, but all i had was a l p record , i drank alone usually in a room , late fifties, a teenager, it seemed like his singing could reach right into your soul and still does, i am a songwriter, singer, he is my favorite artist, there will never be another hank williams
My father was distantly related to HW & also played the guitar & sang the very same songs HW did. He especially liked to sing the sad love songs that Hank Williams wrote. He loved teaching those songs to me so, I grew up loving Hank Williams too.
He was the greatest American songwriter since Stephen Foster. The thing about musical genius is almost everybody gets it. It's universally appreciated.
YES!!! You've Explained it Totally, where I could never put my Finger on it, YOU STATED IT!! 😊 😉 I Feel Every word of Hanks Songs, been listening since 1959, at Least, and Never Nailed What has been Right There, all Along..."You "FEEL"...His Words,-SONGS" TYVM! VAYA con Dios.
The best and only one. Hank Williams. He has helped me and many others through a many hard times with his music. The greatest singer that ever lived. Thank everyone that had a part in making this production
Ole' Hank had something special about him..We all have pain. I'm talking emotional pain, not physical. And Hank somehow managed to take that emotional pain and put it to pen and pad and create absolute gold. I may only be a 25 year old struggling Country singer myself but real recognizes real. Hank Sr was one of a kind. God truly put him here for a short assignment.
Hanks physical pain had an awful lot to do with who he was and how managed his surroundings! I don’t discount this pain and it’s treatment...it added drastically to his Downward Spiral into pain meds & alcohol! Many of his songs were about death, his death, and how he saw the finish line where his time in this world would end for him. Remember not every song he sang was about Audrey, many were about the Almighty and his own death in that realm as brought out in his music and those who knew him well at the ending of this video. Just sayin is all....
A well researched and sensitively produced documentary. To gather and interview so many of those close to Hank still alive at the time of making it, is extraordinary. It is the most moving and beautiful tribute, precious to all of us who admire Hank Williams and his music.
@@guitarman1477 That's an opinion , I can argue, but it's not worth the Country Music Association Entertainer of the Year twice, in 1987 and 1988, and Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year three times, from 1987 to 1989. Hank Sr is the King but hank is a legend.......get real ! If he's untalented tell all his fans....that's a crap statement.
Awesome! Documentary! You can so see the Love and the Passion between Anita Carter and Hank Williams while they're singin together! Both extremely talented beautiful artist in their own right... But together they've never sounded more beautiful!
My best friend in high school, his dad knew Merle Kilgore and I got to meet him one night at their house. My buddy's dad was telling him how big of a fan of Sr. I was. My birthday was coming up and my buddy's mom called me and told me to come over. Mr. Kilgore had dubbed onto cassette some unreleased music Sr. had recorded. There was a song with roy acuff, little Jimmy Dickens, and several demos. It was the greatest birthday gift I ever received
@Jason Newman You sure did get a wonderful gift. If you haven’t already, take your tape into a studio and have it transferred to digital, because tapes will disintegrate and you’ll lose all that. God bless you, and ignore strangers who call you a liar when you share a personal story. Thanks for sharing it too, and I think that’s wonderful!
Man, great documentary I really enjoyed it. I was born in 1960 so if course I never had a opportunity to meet the man . I sure wish I could have played music and go out honkytonking with him . He was wise beyond his years and young and restless at the same time he was really something. I’ve always loved his music , l love the Luke the drifter stuff too, love Bocephus too. Ever since I was a baby my grandpa would sing Hank songs he could whistle like nobody’s business I still hear him whistling all Hank songs .I’m so lonesome I could cry, Cold cold heart, Kawlija, Move it on Over, I think me andHsnk were kindred spirits I’ve rambled around my whole life I ain’t never satisfied, I’m my own worst enemy . All the great ones hat hsve gone to young never reaching their full potential,he had so much left in him still eating away on him
One of the reasons so many people love Hsnk is cause they feel close to him the way you say you do . People can relate too him cause he was just an ordinary fella singing about things everyone can relate too. The genius of Hank Williams.
As someone who is a longtime fan of Hank and has been to Montgomery and see the museum and the gravesite, I truly pray that Hank and Ms. Audrey are both resting in the presence of Jesus after the rough lifes they both lived through. People don't realize that having money and fame isn't as easy as it may seem to us average people
Frankly, other artists may have had longer careers and more hits. But, to me what Hank did in a pretty short period of time of writing songs and having hits makes him the greatest country artist of all time. Yes, I know about Jimmy Rogers, Cash, Haggard, Jones and quite a few more and I like all of them but for the short period he was on this earth he accomplished something that never will be matched. I have often wondered what Hank would have accomplished if he had lived to be an older person. Lord, that man was talented and no one will top what Hank accomplished in that short period of time in country music in my opinion.
I was a late comer to getting to appreciate Hank Williams. I think his talent not only exemplified country but his talent surpassed many other genres. The media just never gave him the adulations he deserved. What an insightful talent. May never see his likes again
My name is Victor Roy and when I first heard Hank Williams sing the blues, I started to cry and started to sing his songs too. When my older brother heard me singing he started singing Hank,s songs too. He sang Hank,s Songs in bars and street corners an played his guitar and even made his own Suit with musically notes on both arms. He played hanks music until he died . He called himself Emile Hank Roy. He died in 73.
I'm german and sometimes have a hard time understanding these deep southern dialects :D I understand what they say but I have to concentrate a little more. Usually I have no problem with that. Sometimes I have to go back and hear it again. A little frustrating, but natural of course. Texan for example is much easier to understand than this 'bama accent. I find it funny, the other way around, imagining some english guy trying to understand bavarian, a german dialect, or eastern german. They'd have an equally bad time with these. But it's a great docu about one of the greatest and most influential. He embodied what I find fascinating about country since my childhood days when my father gave me my first country CDs with various artists. Little did I know that all these great names, that were just names without faces to me, later would become my favorite singers, like Jerry Lee, Johnny Cash, Waylon, Willie, Dolly, Jim Reeves and many more. Back then I didn't even speak English. It was great nontheless listening to these songs. I FELT them. Today they all have faces. Country started it all for me.
@Sven Greetings from the Deep South. I would think that some of the trouble you have in understanding southern dialects would likely be the southern ‘drawl’ that tends to put an extra syllable or two in words. That can include a nasal sound effect as well. Then there are the dialects that have trickled down from the Appalachian Mountains and hills where most of my people have roots (we’re Scots-Irish from the 11th century; I also have Cherokee and Poarch Creek native tribes as well). There are so many native names for counties, towns, and places that have their own pronunciations that sound nothing like they’re spelled and spelled nothing like they sound. I can understand why you have had problems understanding words because of this. I’m born and raised in the area but there are names, words and some peoples’ ways of enunciating that leave even me lost in the dirt. It’s pretty bad when at work I ran into that on the call light board in hospital, and a nurse from the northern Midwest US had to tell me what someone was saying, lol! One would think that a word having only three letters couldn’t be that difficult, but it was. 😁 You have company here in these parts!
This is one of the best documentaries I've ever watched. I really didn't know much about Hank Williams but I learned a lot about him and his family. Very tastefully done, too. Thank you.
Thank goodness they made the documentary when they still had the chance to meet folks who met Hank the man. I don't know many who can get close to Hank lyrically. He'll be the first i go see when i take my big sleep. ⚘
Every Mohawk, every leather jacket, chain, safety pin piercing and middle finger to the system came from deep DEEP LOVE of hank. My days growing up on a small farm in rural Ohio were seasoned with the passionate songs and high pitched moans of this punk rocker in a Nudi suit who taught me the real reason for art is the passion and expression we release in our art. Thank you Hank Williams for teaching us all a little something about art.
Always loved Hank Williams since I was a kid and saw George Hamilton in Your Cheating Heart. That movie started my love of his music. I wished he could have had a happier life. 💔
Jimmie Rodgers was the first huge country star but I don't think he ever reached the heights that Hank did star, superstar are 2 different things. I love Jimmie but even now 70 years later Hank is the one they all look up to and acknowledge as the greatest ever country singer plus I don't believe Rodgers songs appealed to as wide an audience as Hanks did. Jimmie was known for train and hobos songs were Hank could rip your heart right out of your chest his words touched so close to home singing about relationships and people's mortality basically singing the type of songs the world had never really heard before especially in the 40s.
I had heard of Hank growing up but never realized too late in my life what a true talent and hell raiser he was. 29 too too young. What he would have contributed would have surpassed any body. Anybody.
Gotta love Hank The third. Unlike those who just wanna ride on Hank Sr's coattails. ( I'm looking at you Kid Rock.) He can sing like his Grandfather, he doesn't give a damn about whay others think, and he lives it.
I Never Believed Hank Jr. Is Hank Senior's Child. Miss Audrey had an Abortion, in 1950-("Because, she "thought" Hank was Cheating on Her") ???? Hummmm ......Hank jr.=NO RESEMBLANCE WHAT so EVER!!!! AND, HE SURE CAN'T SING TO SAVE HIS LIFE!! IMHO! Sounds like his mamma'...tone deaf! Vaya con Dios! What a Loss of Pure Talent, When We Lost Hank Williams !! I Sure Hope Hank III Has the Protection of God! Audrey can't hold a tune inna Bucket......Sounds like fingernails onna' Chalkboard!! Ugh!! ; )
@@Mcseeker86 shows how educated You Actually Are, you recieved in the indoctrinational system....Do a lil' Research, "cloning"..... the Pope, the Actor who plays the pope in the Movie, (the Two popes) obumination, ZuckerTurd, & there have been Hundreds of thousands More......"surrogate to give birth".... Been doing this successfully since at least the 60's.......ugh....the "Dumbed Down" ! God Bless......Vaya con Dios
@@debraperkins4448 when Jr was a kid he used to sing all his Daddy's songs and did sound a lot like him when he wanted to but he created his own style. Also before he fell 5000ft down the side of a mountain almost dying in the process he had to have his face reconstructed so looks a lot different than he actually did before the accident.
The Man, The myth, the legend Hank Williams RIP. This man introducing me to what true pain, grief ,sorrow and love is at a early age. To listen to his music all grown with all the trials and tribulations of my life I can relate to Hank more than ever. Here's a beer for you may you Rest in peace.
Anyone could see that Hank wasn't well, his body was breaking down! His spine was deteriorating rapidly thus he was seeking pain relief from alcohol and drugs. If you have ever had back pain you know real pain. He suffered unrelenting physiologically and psychological pain exacerbated by Audrey who despised him. Hank loved his son and tolerated Audrey for his son's sake.
You'll receive a plethora of negative appellations if you seriously choose to do that, it's an indication of a handful of personality disorders and emotional flaws do good luck with that stupid choice
The Sacred Heart Singers are wonderful. The overdubbing of the hymn during the battle after the explosion in ‘Cold Mountain’ was beautiful. When my mother and her family went to church as children they grew up on shaped notes, but in the country it was called “fa, sol, la” - the name of the notes, as the singers use @10:34. I knew pianists who played by shaped notes from hymnals. Seems like a lifetime ago, and those were good days when looking back.
There will never be another Hank WillIams the best gone forever in a blink of an eye. You were too good for the Old Grand Oprey they were the losers.We miss you Hank...but you are in a peaceful place now, free from all that pain,up there in Heaven singing for all...my Mom and Dad up in the front row all smiles.
I don't know if it was the hard living, hard drinking, or poor health, but Hank looked closer to 49 years old than 29. His singing and speaking voice even sounded like a man well beyond Hank's auctual age.
Everyone that starts learning to play the guitar at least back in my day in the early 80s had some teacher starting you off with "on top of ol smokey" or "Yankee doodle" my grandpa showed me my basic chords at age 9 or 10 and we played "Hey good-looking" and "I saw the light" all of em, my intro to playing music was Hank growing up in West Virginia picking on the porch.
Night moves Im from Liverpool UK I also started playing guitar at 10 and the first ever song I learnt was by a guy not too far from your neck of the woods. The song was Frankie and Johnnie by Gene Vincent from Norfolk Virginia still one of my favourite rock n roll singers. Then I went on too learn most of ol Hanks songs as I got older and wiser and country music is by far my favourite music love it apart from most of that modern pop wannabe country rap crap they play now. After Steve Earle and Vince Gill as far as I'm concerned there hasn't been too much good stuff coming from Nashville these days.
My father in law absolutel 20:51 loved him! He had all kinds of things about Hank 21:2621:3021:3221:3321:3621:37 Williams! And my parents also loved him! I always enjoyed any time that there was a video or anythin about him and him singing!! Thank y’all for sharing this beautiful Documentory
My dad loved his music. Everytime I go to my parent's graveside I play HW's tunes for my dad & Elvis for my mom. Bc of both of my parents I have a deep love for EP & for HW. When Hank sung it was heartbreaking & gut wrenching . He knew how to reach a person's soul!!! May he rest in peace 🙏 RIP. 🎉✨️🎊🎆
Jimmy Rodgers paved the way for all country singers and Hank broke the rules and showed there was more then one way of doing something they were both country's finest superstars we can have one then one
Hank was THE BEST. I LOVE HIM. His music and persona have been a huge part of my life as far back as I can remember. 2023, going on 75. Very hard to reconcile all he accomplished by 29, with lifelong chronic pain. Pure genius.
I love this letter from Fred Rose: Back then people could still communicate in a strong, no nonsense language and say it all in just a few words. At least here in Germany we've totally lost that.
I learned about Hank from my aunt we have a picture of her sitting on his lap boy my grandpa was mad but soon came around to love his music forever a opry member to me no matter what they say RIP Hank
My teacher showed up this in class and he played a part where Chet Atkins plays I can't help it if I'm still in love with you. I thought it was so beautiful and want to hear it again but I can't seem to find it in this video. Am I just missing it or am I crazy?
The makers of this documentary were right about the fact that many disabled people did go into the music business as jobs for the disabled were almost non-existent. How do I know? I was one of them. I'm legally blind and broke in the business in 1969 at the age of 14. Back then, you had to have a gimmick and for many, being disabled filled the bill. Even though we may have been looked up on as freaks, in the right circumstances, we made more money than your average factory worker. There's something about people wanting to watch a disabled person play an instrument and sing. So the first thing I did was buy a guitar and learn to play it. By the time I was 15, I learned enough guitar to be "dangerous" and I started playing in bars and chaperoned by adult band members. It was then that one of my teachers, Bob Adams, made me a deal that if I kept my grades up, he'd let me travel along with him and his family. And my grades shot from a C- to a solid B in 9 weeks flat! Soon, I was doing the Breakfast Jamboree with them on WHOW out of Clinton Illinois with them. I'd get up at 3 in the morning, get ready, and ride to the station with Mr. Adams and his family. After the the show, we'd ride to school where I went about my day. I sang a lot of Hank Williams songs on that show-- even Lovesick Blues. The show's host, Uncle Johnny Barton, a local promoter, took me on. And from that point, I started playing more road dates during the Summer as I was still in school then. Back then, if you had a hit record in 3 states, you were considered a star. So I opened for folks like Guy Drake, Linda Cassidy, Mark Dalton, and many, many more. When I graduated high school, I got a job opening for Marty Robbins, Dave Dudley, Del Reeves, Mel Street, and a lot more after that. Point is, the music business was good to me til the '80s when the tours I did closed down. I have many more stories to tell but not enough time here to tell them. I retired in 1990 after 21 years of playing music. It was a great run and I'm thankful for every minute of it.
Thank you for the story of your life, and I hope that you still play for the shear enjoyment of it, and perhaps allow a few of your friends and fans to hear you, too.
The autopsy report says there was only a 'trace' amount of alcohol found in HW's system. So, this is false reporting, he did not die of over drinking alcohol. He died of respiratory failure and a blocked ventricle due to morphine, heroin, and Chloral hydrate, a sedative, also called a hypnotic. Chloral hydrate slows the activity of your central nervous system. This medicine has both fast-acting and long-lasting sedative effects. The autopsy also stated that HW had been beaten very recently. He had evidence of being kicked in the groin, a cracked rib and bruises all about the body, a huge welt protruding from his head, a few lacerations and a very recently bandaged hand. No explanation has ever been given for why he was beaten or when or by whom. He was born with Spina Bifida, a very painful spine condition. He was also an alcoholic from age 11. His father had PTSD, which they called shell-shock back then, and was confined to a V.A. Hospital after WWI. I'd like to know why no one talks about Charles Carr getting a speeding ticket that night and that he also appeared in front of a judge and paid that ticket. Who else saw Charles Carr that night? And what about the supposed hitch hiker Charles Carr said he picked up? He was said (by Carr) to be a soldier. What happened to him? Why was he never found? Why was there no investigation into HW's death? Beaten about the head, injected with morphine, unconscious when put into the car, driven to the next gig in an ice storm? What happened to his hat? It was said he only had a t-shirt on when he was taken from the car. Where was his shirt? Something is just not right about this whole thing.
You’re right, but that was 66 years ago. Far too long for us to ever know unless someone decides to speak up. I’m sure we won’t ever know unless we ask Hank ourselves once we see him, though I’m sure by then, we won’t even care. He’s no longer in pain, who knows how bad it would have gotten had he lived to be an old man. I hate how it all happened, the world still hasn’t gotten over the death of Hank Williams.
Where are your sources? I see you have posted this on other Hank vids. He HAD been in a bar fight in Montgomery a few days prior. I’m sure he wouldn’t be sleeping in the back in his full suit. Nothing unusual there🤷♀️. He had a blanket. Who says he was unconscious when he was put in the car? Just curious.
A man named Burdette, who ran the Pure Oil station in Oak Hill, where Hanks car was stored, until his mother picked it up, stole Hanks hat. He would wear the hat, but soon started to lose his hair.He claimed the hat was cursed, and caused his hair loss. Years later Burdette would die from a self inflicted gunshot, behind his service station.
In 1952 I was 6 years old, Hank played Live at the calabrese club, in Westerly RI. I was 6 years old, I went to see him with my uncles and my grandfather. I will never forget it. I remember it like it was yesterday. At my uncle funeral 40 years later the played all of Hank Williams songs, I sat there in tears.
Thats awesome. What a crazy life.
Hank was next level.
I wish my parents embraced him. But they was bikers
Hank Williams was gone before I was born but a greater talent I have never seen for his young years.
Too bad his life was so short. He would have given the world so much more.
What a great memory. ❤
'Did the drinking cause the nagging or did the nagging cause the drinking', that's a great line.
I’m a songwriter , I’m having that
The first country music that blows Hank Williams Sr Hank Williams Jr is alright
Probably a bit of both
i lived this right along with hank, but all i had was a l p record , i drank alone usually in a room , late fifties, a teenager, it seemed like his singing could reach right into your soul and still does, i am a songwriter, singer, he is my favorite artist, there will never be another hank williams
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At 78 years old and a Lifelong Honkytonk singer. This is by far the Best Documentary I've ever seen on Hank Williams.
The best doc I've seen produced on Mr. Hank Williams.
My father was distantly related to HW & also played the guitar & sang the very same songs HW did. He especially liked to sing the sad love songs that Hank Williams wrote. He loved teaching those songs to me so, I grew up loving Hank Williams too.
He was the greatest American songwriter since Stephen Foster. The thing about musical genius is almost everybody gets it. It's universally appreciated.
Who the fuck is Stephen foster?
every time i watch this the tears flow, such a sad story, such a blessed musician, writer, and truly gift to the world
I'm a simple soul. I see an Arena programme & i click like automatically :)
The most important and innovative Country singer of all time. You didn't hear his songs you felt them. RIP Hank Williams
Amen
YES!!! You've Explained it Totally, where I could never put my Finger on it, YOU STATED IT!!
😊 😉 I Feel Every word of Hanks Songs, been listening since 1959, at Least, and Never Nailed What has been Right There, all Along..."You "FEEL"...His Words,-SONGS" TYVM!
VAYA con Dios.
Still do
Truth.
He and other country musicians owe much to African Americans, if not everything.
The best and only one. Hank Williams. He has helped me and many others through a many hard times with his music. The greatest singer that ever lived. Thank everyone that had a part in making this production
"Too many parties too many pals."
That man could write a song like no other.
Ole' Hank had something special about him..We all have pain. I'm talking emotional pain, not physical. And Hank somehow managed to take that emotional pain and put it to pen and pad and create absolute gold. I may only be a 25 year old struggling Country singer myself but real recognizes real. Hank Sr was one of a kind. God truly put him here for a short assignment.
Hanks physical pain had an awful lot to do with who he was and how managed his surroundings! I don’t discount this pain and it’s treatment...it added drastically to his Downward Spiral into pain meds & alcohol! Many of his songs were about death, his death, and how he saw the finish line where his time in this world would end for him. Remember not every song he sang was about Audrey, many were about the Almighty and his own death in that realm as brought out in his music and those who knew him well at the ending of this video. Just sayin is all....
I dont care what people say abut hank williams ony God can judge
A well researched and sensitively produced documentary. To gather and interview so many of those close to Hank still alive at the time of making it, is extraordinary. It is the most moving and beautiful tribute, precious to all of us who admire Hank Williams and his music.
You are a godsend BBC, taking a greater interest in the ingredients that make Americans who we essentially are.
meh
C Synch That's a kind thing to say, I thought the BBC did a fantastic job too.
Bbc are full of paedophiles
I'm a huge Hank Williams JR fan, but love and respect his fathers work - my opinion, the King of Country music.
Junior is a disgrace, totally untalented, couldn’t tie his fathers shoelaces
@@guitarman1477 That's an opinion , I can argue, but it's not worth the Country Music Association Entertainer of the Year twice, in 1987 and 1988, and Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year three times, from 1987 to 1989. Hank Sr is the King but hank is a legend.......get real ! If he's untalented tell all his fans....that's a crap statement.
@@jeremiahrose4681Your statement is crap! Hank Sr. Is the king of country music!!
It's kinda funny that the BBC did the best documentary on The Hillbilly Shakespeare. The greatest American country singer ever!
Awesome! Documentary! You can so see the Love and the Passion between Anita Carter and Hank Williams while they're singin together! Both extremely talented beautiful artist in their own right... But together they've never sounded more beautiful!
Yep I see it the same way.
Hank Williams always seemed like he was 29 going on 65 in his lyrics and his music.
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True, but he couldn’t get past Mother Carter.
Anita Carter had a beautiful voice.
…True
I was never a big country music fan, and was born 13 years after hank died, but I know all these songs. And this is a show worth watching.
1966? Same and raised on Hank and still listen to my all-time hero
My best friend in high school, his dad knew Merle Kilgore and I got to meet him one night at their house. My buddy's dad was telling him how big of a fan of Sr. I was. My birthday was coming up and my buddy's mom called me and told me to come over. Mr. Kilgore had dubbed onto cassette some unreleased music Sr. had recorded. There was a song with roy acuff, little Jimmy Dickens, and several demos. It was the greatest birthday gift I ever received
You need to upload it
Wow that is so AWESOME
Liar
@@truckgp7078 how do you know that this person is lying
@Jason Newman
You sure did get a wonderful gift. If you haven’t already, take your tape into a studio and have it transferred to digital, because tapes will disintegrate and you’ll lose all that. God bless you, and ignore strangers who call you a liar when you share a personal story. Thanks for sharing it too, and I think that’s wonderful!
My Aunt told stories of when Hank and Audrey and the band played on WSM radio. My Aunt was a secretary there. This is great!
Man, great documentary I really enjoyed it. I was born in 1960 so if course I never had a opportunity to meet the man . I sure wish I could have played music and go out honkytonking with him . He was wise beyond his years and young and restless at the same time he was really something. I’ve always loved his music , l love the Luke the drifter stuff too, love Bocephus too. Ever since I was a baby my grandpa would sing Hank songs he could whistle like nobody’s business I still hear him whistling all Hank songs .I’m so lonesome I could cry, Cold cold heart, Kawlija, Move it on Over, I think me andHsnk were kindred spirits I’ve rambled around my whole life I ain’t never satisfied, I’m my own worst enemy . All the great ones hat hsve gone to young never reaching their full potential,he had so much left in him still eating away on him
One of the reasons so many people love Hsnk is cause they feel close to him the way you say you do . People can relate too him cause he was just an ordinary fella singing about things everyone can relate too. The genius of Hank Williams.
As someone who is a longtime fan of Hank and has been to Montgomery and see the museum and the gravesite, I truly pray that Hank and Ms. Audrey are both resting in the presence of Jesus after the rough lifes they both lived through. People don't realize that having money and fame isn't as easy as it may seem to us average people
Hank was the first rock and roll singer in my book. He was one of key figures in 20th century American music. If you don't dig Hank you ain't shit.
Thank you so much. He passed before I was born. I have been a lifelong fan
Frankly, other artists may have had longer careers and more hits. But, to me what Hank did in a pretty short period of time of writing songs and having hits makes him the greatest country artist of all time. Yes, I know about Jimmy Rogers, Cash, Haggard, Jones and quite a few more and I like all of them but for the short period he was on this earth he accomplished something that never will be matched. I have often wondered what Hank would have accomplished if he had lived to be an older person. Lord, that man was talented and no one will top what Hank accomplished in that short period of time in country music in my opinion.
I was a late comer to getting to appreciate Hank Williams. I think his talent not only exemplified country but his talent surpassed many other genres. The media just never gave him the adulations he deserved.
What an insightful talent. May never see his likes again
I 100 percent agree. Totally a genius. I Love his music bove all.
You're right bro, he died in his 20s
My name is Victor Roy and when I first heard
Hank Williams sing the blues, I started to cry and started to sing his songs too. When my older brother heard me singing he started singing Hank,s songs too. He sang Hank,s
Songs in bars and street corners an played his guitar and even made his own
Suit with musically notes on both arms.
He played hanks music until he died .
He called himself Emile Hank Roy. He died in 73.
I'm german and sometimes have a hard time understanding these deep southern dialects :D I understand what they say but I have to concentrate a little more. Usually I have no problem with that. Sometimes I have to go back and hear it again. A little frustrating, but natural of course. Texan for example is much easier to understand than this 'bama accent.
I find it funny, the other way around, imagining some english guy trying to understand bavarian, a german dialect, or eastern german. They'd have an equally bad time with these.
But it's a great docu about one of the greatest and most influential. He embodied what I find fascinating about country since my childhood days when my father gave me my first country CDs with various artists. Little did I know that all these great names, that were just names without faces to me, later would become my favorite singers, like Jerry Lee, Johnny Cash, Waylon, Willie, Dolly, Jim Reeves and many more. Back then I didn't even speak English. It was great nontheless listening to these songs. I FELT them.
Today they all have faces. Country started it all for me.
Yeah???? Lol....try Swiss German.....
@Sven
Greetings from the Deep South. I would think that some of the trouble you have in understanding southern dialects would likely be the southern ‘drawl’ that tends to put an extra syllable or two in words. That can include a nasal sound effect as well. Then there are the dialects that have trickled down from the Appalachian Mountains and hills where most of my people have roots (we’re Scots-Irish from the 11th century; I also have Cherokee and Poarch Creek native tribes as well). There are so many native names for counties, towns, and places that have their own pronunciations that sound nothing like they’re spelled and spelled nothing like they sound. I can understand why you have had problems understanding words because of this. I’m born and raised in the area but there are names, words and some peoples’ ways of enunciating that leave even me lost in the dirt. It’s pretty bad when at work I ran into that on the call light board in hospital, and a nurse from the northern Midwest US had to tell me what someone was saying, lol! One would think that a word having only three letters couldn’t be that difficult, but it was. 😁 You have company here in these parts!
This is one of the best documentaries I've ever watched. I really didn't know much about Hank Williams but I learned a lot about him and his family. Very tastefully done, too. Thank you.
Thank goodness they made the documentary when they still had the chance to meet folks who met Hank the man.
I don't know many who can get close to Hank lyrically.
He'll be the first i go see when i take my big sleep.
⚘
Yes, I want to visit with Hank and with Duane Allman.
Sinatra
fabulous documentary...it was like we were all along for the ride..
Every Mohawk, every leather jacket, chain, safety pin piercing and middle finger to the system came from deep DEEP LOVE of hank. My days growing up on a small farm in rural Ohio were seasoned with the passionate songs and high pitched moans of this punk rocker in a Nudi suit who taught me the real reason for art is the passion and expression we release in our art. Thank you Hank Williams for teaching us all a little something about art.
The best video I’ve EVER seen on UA-cam, Godspeed to you Hank, Audrey, Hank Jr., Hank III, and Jett, Katherine, and Holly…the Legends
Affa I really love the Hank Williams party
This was good, and nice too see Shelton so much in this ❤
Always loved Hank Williams since I was a kid and saw George Hamilton in Your Cheating Heart. That movie started my love of his music.
I wished he could have had a happier life. 💔
Jimmie Rodgers was country's first superstar "ahem" but thanks for making this outstanding documentary.
Listen up dipshit, JImmie couldn't carry Hank's guitar strap, run along fucktard...
Jimmie Rodgers was the first huge country star but I don't think he ever reached the heights that Hank did star, superstar are 2 different things. I love Jimmie but even now 70 years later Hank is the one they all look up to and acknowledge as the greatest ever country singer plus I don't believe Rodgers songs appealed to as wide an audience as Hanks did. Jimmie was known for train and hobos songs were Hank could rip your heart right out of your chest his words touched so close to home singing about relationships and people's mortality basically singing the type of songs the world had never really heard before especially in the 40s.
Who?
@F.T.Power66 Thanks puss...
@@harveyhagar I gotta chill man he was just saying sum
This is one of the best documents I've ever seen.
Ronnie Van Zant was like Hank. He never wrote or recorded a bad song. Every one was good. Every one.
Such great old clips from the Grand ole opry TY
wen I hear the song I can't help it if I'm still in love with you I gust feel like crying R.I.P Hank Williams
not only do I agree with you but White Zombie rules
I had heard of Hank growing up but never realized too late in my life what a true talent and hell raiser he was.
29 too too young. What he would have contributed would have surpassed any body. Anybody.
Definitely one of America s greatest songwriters
Brilliant! and such an important documentary.
Gotta love Hank The third. Unlike those who just wanna ride on Hank Sr's coattails. ( I'm looking at you Kid Rock.) He can sing like his Grandfather, he doesn't give a damn about whay others think, and he lives it.
I Never Believed Hank Jr. Is Hank Senior's Child. Miss Audrey had an Abortion, in 1950-("Because, she "thought" Hank was Cheating on Her") ???? Hummmm ......Hank jr.=NO RESEMBLANCE WHAT so EVER!!!!
AND, HE SURE CAN'T SING TO SAVE HIS LIFE!!
IMHO! Sounds like his mamma'...tone deaf!
Vaya con Dios!
What a Loss of Pure Talent, When We Lost Hank Williams !!
I Sure Hope Hank III Has the Protection of God!
Audrey can't hold a tune inna Bucket......Sounds like fingernails onna' Chalkboard!!
Ugh!!
; )
Your theory about Jr makes no sense because Hank 3 looks just like Hank Sr., And Hank Jr. Is 3's daddy.
Sad Junior let's him ride the coattails
@@Mcseeker86 shows how educated You Actually Are, you recieved in the indoctrinational system....Do a lil' Research, "cloning"..... the Pope, the Actor who plays the pope in the Movie, (the Two popes) obumination, ZuckerTurd, & there have been Hundreds of thousands More......"surrogate to give birth".... Been doing this successfully since at least the 60's.......ugh....the "Dumbed Down" !
God Bless......Vaya con Dios
@@debraperkins4448 when Jr was a kid he used to sing all his Daddy's songs and did sound a lot like him when he wanted to but he created his own style. Also before he fell 5000ft down the side of a mountain almost dying in the process he had to have his face reconstructed so looks a lot different than he actually did before the accident.
Hank Senior and Merle Haggard pretty much comprise the best in country music writing. Real life, real pain.
Really Listen to Every Word of Hank's Song, "These Men with Broken Hearts" ....Prophetic!!!!
The Man, The myth, the legend Hank Williams RIP. This man introducing me to what true pain, grief ,sorrow and love is at a early age. To listen to his music all grown with all the trials and tribulations of my life I can relate to Hank more than ever.
Here's a beer for you may you Rest in peace.
The BBC Arena had some great documentaries .
Hank was the true first rock star. He may of not sounded like it but he lived it
Anyone could see that Hank wasn't well, his body was breaking down!
His spine was deteriorating rapidly thus he was seeking pain relief from alcohol and drugs. If you have ever had back pain you know real pain. He suffered unrelenting physiologically and psychological pain exacerbated by Audrey who despised him. Hank loved his son and tolerated Audrey for his son's sake.
An excellent program, wish he was alive today.
♥️ Hank Williams!! Thanks for share 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
17 days later I was born and am still listening to his comlete works. Being constantly lonesome it makes me feel much better.
This documentary has really inspired me. It's inspired me to start referring to myself in the third person like "ol' Hank" did.
You'll receive a plethora of negative appellations if you seriously choose to do that, it's an indication of a handful of personality disorders and emotional flaws do good luck with that stupid choice
I believe that this is the BBC rebroadcast of "Honky Tonk Blues" the documentary first broadcast as part of the PBS American Masters Series.
Brilliant brilliant program loved hank since I was 10
I wasn't here yet when Hank was singing but I love his music.i'm from a southern family so I come by it honestly,.
MyGod
It brought tears, joy, happiness and uncontrollable emotions 0:37
The Sacred Heart Singers are wonderful. The overdubbing of the hymn during the battle after the explosion in ‘Cold Mountain’ was beautiful. When my mother and her family went to church as children they grew up on shaped notes, but in the country it was called “fa, sol, la” - the name of the notes, as the singers use @10:34. I knew pianists who played by shaped notes from hymnals. Seems like a lifetime ago, and those were good days when looking back.
Excellent fills in a lot of information I did not know
There will never be another Hank WillIams the best gone forever in a blink of an eye. You were too good for the Old Grand Oprey they were the losers.We miss you Hank...but you are in a peaceful place now, free from all that pain,up there in Heaven singing for all...my Mom and Dad up in the front row all smiles.
I don't know if it was the hard living, hard drinking, or poor health, but Hank looked closer to 49 years old than 29. His singing and speaking voice even sounded like a man well beyond Hank's auctual age.
I know one thang when ones Back is hurting every day for years it changes u!!!
I had them play some Hank songs at my dad's funeral. He loved him and so did I.
Great artest!
I have a saying. If you don't like Hank, you stank.
❤
Everyone that starts learning to play the guitar at least back in my day in the early 80s had some teacher starting you off with "on top of ol smokey" or "Yankee doodle" my grandpa showed me my basic chords at age 9 or 10 and we played "Hey good-looking" and "I saw the light" all of em, my intro to playing music was Hank growing up in West Virginia picking on the porch.
Night moves Im from Liverpool UK I also started playing guitar at 10 and the first ever song I learnt was by a guy not too far from your neck of the woods. The song was Frankie and Johnnie by Gene Vincent from Norfolk Virginia still one of my favourite rock n roll singers. Then I went on too learn most of ol Hanks songs as I got older and wiser and country music is by far my favourite music love it apart from most of that modern pop wannabe country rap crap they play now. After Steve Earle and Vince Gill as far as I'm concerned there hasn't been too much good stuff coming from Nashville these days.
It was smoke on the water for us. Day one anyways. Probably haven't played it since.
I wish, so bad sometimes, I could have been a friend of Hank's.
Course, it would of hurt me bad when he passed.
But I would have had the memories.
He was awesome 😎, there is a song that Allan Jackson did about him that is Awesome, Midnight in Montgomery 💕
David Allen Coe did the Ride.
It's so nice to meet the guys in that amazing band...😊
My father in law absolutel
20:51 loved him! He had all kinds of things about Hank 21:26 21:30 21:32 21:33 21:36 21:37 Williams! And my parents also loved him! I always enjoyed any time that there was a video or anythin about him and him singing!! Thank y’all for sharing this beautiful Documentory
Now thats a man that did it his Way!!! RIP
incredible life, so many great songs he wrote in such a short time
That’s one of the best descriptors I’ve ever heard.”Hank pounded the hurt and pain down so thin that you could stand it.”
Very well stated.
Jesus his grandson looks and aoumds just like him
Hank III is great and puts on a great show.
Yes he does
I agree!!
He's got smaller ears!
@@Sven_E07 And tattoos!
That was a very good documentary.
No one could never top Hank Sr. Hank Jr rode in on his daddy's name. Hank Jr is good but never could top his daddy.
My dad loved his music.
Everytime I go to my parent's graveside I play HW's tunes for my dad & Elvis for my mom.
Bc of both of my parents I have a deep love for EP & for HW.
When Hank sung it was heartbreaking & gut wrenching . He knew how to reach a person's soul!!!
May he rest in peace 🙏 RIP.
🎉✨️🎊🎆
Jimmy Rodgers paved the way for all country singers and Hank broke the rules and showed there was more then one way of doing something they were both country's finest superstars we can have one then one
Hank and Jimmie were so similar. I’m surprised he didn’t mention Rodgers as his hero/mentor instead of Acuff and Ernest T.
Jimmy Rodgers, Hank Snow, and Hank Sr.
This is a great Hank doc. Thanks for sharing.
Hank was THE BEST. I LOVE HIM. His music and persona have been a huge part of my life as far back as I can remember. 2023, going on 75. Very hard to reconcile all he accomplished by 29, with lifelong chronic pain. Pure genius.
Rest in peace Hank 🌻
I love this letter from Fred Rose: Back then people could still communicate in a strong, no nonsense language and say it all in just a few words. At least here in Germany we've totally lost that.
That was a moving letter
Truly amazing what a guy would have love to meet him
The footage is amazing! Hank loves Audrey but she wasn't too good.
The greatest song writer that ever lived!
There's only one Hank Williams sr!
I learned about Hank from my aunt we have a picture of her sitting on his lap boy my grandpa was mad but soon came around to love his music forever a opry member to me no matter what they say RIP Hank
The years have passed and time has flown,
since Hank Williams died.
And as the day turns to the night,
I'm so lonesome, I could cry!
I really love this old timey stuff!!
he had spina bifida also painful terribly he suffered terrible pain will kill you
There are worse things than death..... amen.
Hank Williams Sr.
Hank Williams Jr.
Hank Williams III
What an AWESOME heritage!!!
Forget junior, he’s useless
My teacher showed up this in class and he played a part where Chet Atkins plays I can't help it if I'm still in love with you. I thought it was so beautiful and want to hear it again but I can't seem to find it in this video. Am I just missing it or am I crazy?
Both may be true...
such a story, he overcame so much and is still remembered
Even though he left the world at a young age his legacy still lives on
Hank's wife was a jealous,mean woman. She was too full of herself to try to work things out with him.
The makers of this documentary were right about the fact that many
disabled people did go into
the music business as jobs
for the disabled were almost non-existent. How do I know? I was one of them. I'm legally blind and
broke in the business in
1969 at the age of 14.
Back then, you had to have a gimmick and for many,
being disabled filled the
bill. Even though we may
have been looked up on as
freaks, in the right circumstances, we made more money than your
average factory worker.
There's something about
people wanting to watch
a disabled person play an
instrument and sing. So the
first thing I did was buy a
guitar and learn to play it.
By the time I was 15, I learned enough guitar to
be "dangerous" and I started
playing in bars and chaperoned by adult band
members. It was then that
one of my teachers, Bob Adams, made me a deal
that if I kept my grades up,
he'd let me travel along with
him and his family. And my
grades shot from a C- to a
solid B in 9 weeks flat! Soon, I was doing the Breakfast Jamboree with them on WHOW out of
Clinton Illinois with them.
I'd get up at 3 in the morning, get ready, and
ride to the station with Mr.
Adams and his family. After the the show, we'd ride to
school where I went about
my day. I sang a lot of Hank
Williams songs on that show-- even Lovesick Blues.
The show's host, Uncle
Johnny Barton, a local
promoter, took me on.
And from that point, I started playing more road
dates during the Summer as
I was still in school then.
Back then, if you had a hit
record in 3 states, you were
considered a star. So I opened for folks like Guy Drake, Linda Cassidy, Mark
Dalton, and many, many more. When I graduated
high school, I got a job
opening for Marty Robbins,
Dave Dudley, Del Reeves,
Mel Street, and a lot more
after that. Point is, the
music business was good
to me til the '80s when the tours I did closed down.
I have many more stories to
tell but not enough time here to tell them. I retired
in 1990 after 21 years of
playing music. It was a
great run and I'm thankful
for every minute of it.
Thank you for the story of your life, and I hope that you still play for the shear enjoyment of it, and perhaps allow a few of your friends and fans to hear you, too.
Mr. Hank Williams was and is the best country singer they ever will be. It is so sad that they will not put him back as a member of the oprey
The Opry puts the cunt back in country and the dick back in Dixie. 😜
The autopsy report says there was only a 'trace' amount of alcohol found in HW's system. So, this is false reporting, he did not die of over drinking alcohol. He died of respiratory failure and a blocked ventricle due to morphine, heroin, and Chloral hydrate, a sedative, also called a hypnotic. Chloral hydrate slows the activity of your central nervous system. This medicine has both fast-acting and long-lasting sedative effects. The autopsy also stated that HW had been beaten very recently. He had evidence of being kicked in the groin, a cracked rib and bruises all about the body, a huge welt protruding from his head, a few lacerations and a very recently bandaged hand. No explanation has ever been given for why he was beaten or when or by whom. He was born with Spina Bifida, a very painful spine condition. He was also an alcoholic from age 11. His father had PTSD, which they called shell-shock back then, and was confined to a V.A. Hospital after WWI.
I'd like to know why no one talks about Charles Carr getting a speeding ticket that night and that he also appeared in front of a judge and paid that ticket. Who else saw Charles Carr that night? And what about the supposed hitch hiker Charles Carr said he picked up? He was said (by Carr) to be a soldier. What happened to him? Why was he never found? Why was there no investigation into HW's death? Beaten about the head, injected with morphine, unconscious when put into the car, driven to the next gig in an ice storm? What happened to his hat? It was said he only had a t-shirt on when he was taken from the car. Where was his shirt? Something is just not right about this whole thing.
You’re right, but that was 66 years ago. Far too long for us to ever know unless someone decides to speak up. I’m sure we won’t ever know unless we ask Hank ourselves once we see him, though I’m sure by then, we won’t even care. He’s no longer in pain, who knows how bad it would have gotten had he lived to be an old man. I hate how it all happened, the world still hasn’t gotten over the death of Hank Williams.
Where are your sources? I see you have posted this on other Hank vids. He HAD been in a bar fight in Montgomery a few days prior. I’m sure he wouldn’t be sleeping in the back in his full suit. Nothing unusual there🤷♀️. He had a blanket. Who says he was unconscious when he was put in the car? Just curious.
HW had opiates in his system. You have to go to the rough side of town to find that. They also have beatings available there.
A man named Burdette, who ran the Pure Oil station in Oak Hill, where Hanks car was stored, until his mother picked it up, stole Hanks hat. He would wear the hat, but soon started to lose his hair.He claimed the hat was cursed, and caused his hair loss. Years later Burdette would die from a self inflicted gunshot, behind his service station.
He had a public viewing in an open casket so his face couldn't have been to badly beaten.
brilliant doc. awesome singer and songwriter.
" I see Jesus coming down the road, and he's coming after O'l Hank "
Lots of people perform Country Music.
But Hank DEFINED what Country Music IS for everyone after him.