Articles tagged "hank williams"

Column: Pickin' Down the Line

Hank’s Other Side: Religion, Radio, and the Roots of Country Music

by Bob Proehl

[2.Feb.09] :. Hank Williams' recordings for WSM's Mother's Best Flour radio show challenge the modern listener's idea that country music reserves Jesus for Sunday morning.

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Spectacle: Elvis Costello with Cash, Jones, Kristofferson, and Mellencamp (Episode 8)

by Zeth Lundy

[21.Jan.09] :. On tonight’s episode of Spectacle: Elvis Costello With… (airing Wednesdays at 9pm EST/PST on the Sundance Channel), Costello brings together Rosanne Cash, Norah Jones, Kris...

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Spectacle: Elvis Costello With Tony Bennett (Episode 5)

by Zeth Lundy

[31.Dec.08] :. Nu-progressive types beware! At first blush, Tony Bennett can seem to be a crotchety old traditionalist, harshly critical of any popular music trend that flirts outside the pages of the Great...

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PopMatters Picks: The Best Music of 2008 Feature

The Best Country Music of 2008

by Juli Thanki

[18.Dec.08] :. The year's best country music may be topped by archival releases from deceased artists, but the living managed to offer a strong alternative to the Nashvegas machine.

PopMatters Picks: The Best Music of 2008

Column: Torch & Twang

Who Says Country Can’t Hip-Hop?

by Juli Thanki

[26.Nov.08] :. Poverty, crime, disenfranchisement, sinning, saving, and no-account women: Stereotypical subjects of the average country song, or the average hip-hop song?

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Sing Me Back Home by Dana Jennings

by Matthew Fiander

[10.Jul.08] :. A personal history and a love letter, urging us to embrace country music as American music.

Hank Williams: Turn Back the Years: The Essential Hank Williams Collection

by Andrew Gilstrap

[10.Nov.05] :. It attempts to wrestle Williams' body of work into manageable chunks, to show that this wasn't a guy who just churned out country songs indiscriminately, but an artist who documented the major facets of his life.

Hank Williams: Honky Tonk Blues [DVD]

by Emily Sogn

[12.Jul.04] :. The life-story of one of country music’s most tragic luminaries is one as quintessentially American as the proverbial apple pie. It is a story that is recounted continuously because though it...