>>With some rare time on my hands, the chores done, I have been scouring YouTube for some old favorites. Amazing what you can find there, Wilson Pickett singing "In the Midnight Hour" for example.
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>>The guy I can't seem to catch up to is Hank Williams. Some are posted as videos but in fact they are not. Not saying they are bad photo albums -- Hank as he was and not cleaned up studio versions. He died almost 60 years ago so maybe I am wishing for too much.
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>>The closest I came was a video montage of "I Saw the Light". Again, not the best version, but perhaps the purest.
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>>He only influenced two or three generations of country musicians. So I guess he left his footprints in the sand.
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>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7dlSuqs7P8
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>There's a tear in my beer.........
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>http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=21750427

Interesting! Thanks.

Hank Sr. couldn't have been a very good father. He was a philanderer who lived on the road and died at 30. Not a good husband, either, to either of his wives. All he could do right was write and sing. Could he ever.

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