Hank Williams | A Greatest Singer
Hiram King “Hank” Williams (September 17, 1923 – January 1, 1953) was an American singer-songwriter and musician. Regarded as one of the most significant and influential American singers and songwriters of the 20th century,Williams recorded 35 singles (five released posthumously) that reached the Top 10 of the Billboard Country & Western Best Sellers chart, including 11 that ranked number one (three posthumously),More info:wiki
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#10 Hank Williams And The Curse Of the ‘Live Fast, Die Young’ Music Star,More info:thedailybeast
Of the 33 records that Hank Williams placed on Billboard country and western Top 10 charts during his short lifetime, only two made the mainstream pop chart, and even those had much to do with pop artists like Tony Bennett having their own hits with them first. Yet, more than 60 years after his premature death at age 29, no country artist living or dead can approach the familiarity the general public has with Hank Williams, whose sad, lonely songs are playing right this minute on some roadhouse jukebox. Few musical legends live on as an almost touchable, feelable presence in the anatomy of modern popular music as does the enigmatic, goofy-looking guy who carried a nascent country music formula to its full potential, then exited stage right in total and abject loneliness.
#9 HANK WILLIAMS,More info:omnivorerecordings
#8 Sony offers first look of Tom Hiddleston as Hank Williams,More info:tennessean
Sony Pictures Classics has released the first image of actor Tom Hiddleston (“The Avengers”) as Hank Williams in the upcoming biopic “I Saw the Light.” Other cast members include Bradley Whitford, Elizabeth Olsen, Cherry Jones and David Krumholtz. Hiddleston prepared for his role as the country music legend by working with singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell, who will play Hank Williams’ father, Lon Williams, in the film.
“I Saw the Light,” which is based on award-winning music writer Colin Escott’s biography of Williams, is scheduled for limited release on Nov. 27. Nationwide expansion will follow.
#7 Hank Williams Jr.’s 10 best songs,More info:axs
#6 Tom Hiddleston: playing Hank Williams was like riding a very complicated bike,More info:theverge
Tom Hiddleston looks like country singer Hank Williams. They’re both tall, pale, lean men with narrow faces, sharp noses, and easy country smiles that don’t entirely warm up their thousand-yard stares. Looking at pictures or footage of the two of them, the resemblance is clear enough. But Hiddleston was still an odd choice to play Williams in the biopic I Saw The Light, which opens in theaters on Friday, April 1st. Given an opportunity to cast someone to play an Alabama-born country singer-songwriter, one of the original good ol’ boys of Tennessee’s Grand Ole Opry, most people wouldn’t look to a London-born, Cambridge-educated classical actor who’s best known for playing a campy, villainous Norse god in a series of American comic-book blockbusters.
#5 Hank Williams, Jr,More info:spotify
#4 Tom Hiddleston on His Performance as Hank Williams in I Saw the Light ,More info:parade
Even before he started dating Taylor Swift, British actor Tom Hiddleston connected to country music through his role as the legendary Hank Williams in writer director Marc Abraham’s I Saw the Light.
Based on the book Hank Williams: The Biography by Colin Escott with George Merritt and William Macewen, I Saw The Light begins when Williams is part of the Alabama music scene shortly after World War II, and follows his meteoric rise as he realizes his dream of hit records and a place on the Grand Ole Opry, as well as his turbulent personal life, and his untimely death at age 29.
#3 Hank Williams Jr. lashes out at modern country in new song, album,More info:axs
#2 ESPN is bringing back Hank Williams Jr. to ‘Monday Night Football,’ for some reason,More info:sbnation
ESPN is bringing back Hank Williams Jr. for its Monday Night Football opening, according to Cindy Watts of USA Today. The move comes six years after Williams was dropped from the broadcast following comments he made about John Boehner golfing with Barack Obama.
Stephanie Druley, ESPN’s vice president of events and studio production, says she expects there will be some backlash, but ESPN is comfortable with it.
“It was the right time,” Druley said. “We discussed it internally and it was just the right time to bring him back.”
Williams recorded a new version of “All My Rowdy Friends Are Here on Monday Night,” complete with the well-known opening, “Are you ready for some football?”
ESPN jettisoned Williams after he said some controversial things on Fox News’ Fox & Friends about Boehner golfing with Obama.
#1 Texas Musician Captures the Spirit of Hank Williams in Film,More info:texasstandard
“I Saw The Light” is a new biopic about the life of Hank Williams. Texas musician Rodney Crowell is executive music producer – a role that included training the actor who would play the ill-fated country star in the film.
For five weeks, English actor Tom Hiddleston, perhaps best known in the U.S. for his roles in “The Avengers” and “Thor,” lived in the upstairs suite of Rodney Crowell’s home near Nashville.
Texas Standard host David Brown spoke to Crowell about the film, and how he helped a classically-trained British actor transform into an outlaw musician.
“One day I had to go upstairs – (Hiddleston) was staying in a bedroom upstairs – I went up to knock on the door, and the door opened there stood Hank Williams,” Crowell says. “It wasn’t Tom Hiddleston, it was a character. … He crawled inside that skin.”
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