Posts Tagged ‘Hank Williams’

French rocker Eddy Mitchell once said: “kick any trash can in Nashville, Tennessee and three guitar players will get out of it”. Nashville, Tennessee also called Music City has been the cradle for the music industry and particularly the country music industry so far that the city became today’s country music’s Disneyland or a country [...]

In this episode we’re having a look back on what year 2011 brought, the artists that we discovered and re-discovered at HONKY TONK LIVE : Hank Williams alive again, George Thorogood going back to Chicago, John Mellencamp recording in mono with T-Bone Burnett placing the mike, the Earle family business, Bob Wayne leaving his job [...]

In this episode open with Steve Earle, we are discovering Bob Dylan’s controversial project “The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams”. This tribute to one of the most influential songwriters in country and popular music takes unfinished songs to write them further and record them with the collaboration of various artists like Alan Jackson, Merle Haggard, [...]

In this episode Honeyboy Edwards in Heaven is taking us to Chicago where George Thorogood is paying tribute to Chess Records. We are dreaming all the time of honky tonk queens who haunt our songs. In the Gulf of Mexico Steve Earle is doing introspection in the shadow of Hank Williams and we are mixing [...]

Financial concern today: HONKY TONK LIVE music is worth your money ! Featuring Hound Dog Taylor singing how to make money still after 40 years of Alligator Records boogie. T-Bone Burnett-produced music, Hank Williams radio shows or Brian Setzer hot licks also prove that timeless music is worth the whole world money !

featuring Hank Williams’ 1951 Mother’s Best radio show sponsored by a flour producer with the entire first show live with the Drifting Cowboys in the WSM studio. Also featured in this episode, three different versions of Brian Setzer’s “I Won’t Stand In Your Way”…

live unplugged session in the Wueste Welle studio with Steffan Rock and BB Browzee playing cover versions and broadcasting the original versions of songs by Bob Dylan, Hank Williams among others.

featuring Hank III’s last Curb album “Rebel Within” and a flashback on his career

featuring Johnny Cash out of his grave, Jeff Bridges the singing actor of “Crazy Heart”, Hank Sr. and Hank III with the same song

featuring slide guitars played live by Steffan Rock & BB Browzee !