Hank Thompson And His Brazos Valley Boys (12-CD Deluxe Box Set)

Copiesof la boîte Hank Thompson, 1996 a été changé de mains pour un maximum de $ 500on sites d'enchères ! Voilà de bonnes nouvelles si vous le voulez et que vous avez Fivehundred dollars de rechange ... mais maintenant il ya de bonnes nouvelles pour tout le monde elsewho n'a pas l'obtenir leur libération. Au cours du nettoyage de la maison , wefound 500 livres pour la boîte. Nous sommes donc ré- appuyant sur 500 exemplaires de thebox pour aller avec le livre. Premier arrivé , premier servi . Ne pas attendre anddecide vous voulez après que le prix est retourné à 500 $ ! HankThompson a commencé sa carrière en chantant Ernest Tubb style honky tonk , thesound entendu sur ses premières petites étiquettes visites régionales. Signé à Capitolin 1947 succès nationaux sont venus rapidement , et ET lui-même obtenu Hank sur theOpry dans 1949.Realizing il voulait quelque chose de différent , Hank a quitté , intitulé toTexas à domicile et organisé une version de Western Swing dynamique de son groupe Garçons BrazosValley , dirigé par Billy Gray. Non seulement ont-ils mis son adanceable derrière honky tonk la voix de Hank ( une formule GeorgeStrait répété 30 ans plus tard ) , ils reflètent une successfulconvergence hautement apprécié les deux genres Texas connexes. Les résultats werelandmark hits comme TheWILD côté de la vie , Rub -A- Dub- Dub , service de réveil , Irene , Honky Tonk Girl, Wildwood fleurEt SquawsAlong Le Yukon.Along avec la voix exubérante de Hank , est venu steel guitar virtuosité fromLefty Nason ( l' homme qui a créé le caractère distinctif Thompson SteelSound ) , Curly Chalker , Bobby Garrett et Bobbie blanc peut être heard.So peut Brillant violon de Curly Lewis, Keith Coleman et BillyArmstrong , avec la guitare picking de Merle Travis ami de Hank et , à l'occasion Joe Maphis.This12 -CD set comprend tous 1946-47 Globe and Bluebonnetrecordings de Thompson , ainsi que sa complète 1947-1964 Capitol recordedoutput . Sont inclus tous les trois de ses disques en direct , y compris le 1961'HankThompson au Golden Nugget », le premier LP en direct jamais effectué par un solocountry singer.Alsoincluded est un 84 pages à couverture rigide avec des photos rares et des propres archives de memorabiliafrom Thompson , une discographie complète et anewly biographie documentée par Kienzle Rich.

Hank Thompson

 HANK THOMPSON

Everything about Hank Thompson was modern. He was one of the first country singers to record on audio tape, the first to record a live album. For years, he flew his own plane to shows. Sick of dealing with crappy dancehall sound systems, he designed and built his own. Handed a coveted membership in the Grand Ole Opry in 1949, soured by the low pay and Nashville's musical conservatism, he quickly went back to his native Texas.

Actually, the Waco-born Thompson grew up favoring Gene Autry, the Carter Family, Vernon Dalhart, Jimmie Rodgers, Ernest Tubb and the Opry over the locally generated Western Swing of the Light Crust Doughboys and Milton Brown. After he got his first guitar in 1935 at age ten, his singing won so many amateur shows at the Waco Theater that by the time he was in high school, WACO gave him a Monday-Friday morning radio show as 'Hank The Hired Hand.' He did the final broadcast in January, 1943, the morning he left for the Navy. Home in 1946, studying toward a degree (and career) in electronics, he began playing Tubb-influenced honky tonk with his new band, the Brazos Valley Boys. By fall, he had his first regional hit, Whoa Sailor, on the local Globe label. A year later, after opening for Tex Ritter in Waco, Ritter recommended Hank to Capitol where Humpty Dumpty Heart became his first national hit in 1948.

Quick to adapt to changing realities, and aiming at the dancehall circuit, Hank directed guitarist Billy Gray to reinvent the Brazos Valley Boys as a danceable Western Swing-influenced outfit, minus the jazzy instrumental solos he never cared for. Dissatisfied with the small crowds he drew performing around Dallas, he relocated to Oklahoma City in 1951, by then boasting a sound as identifiable as Lefty Frizzell's or Ray Price's. He was blending his jovial honky tonk vocals with swing-flavored accompaniment. The band's high standards earned them awards for over a decade. From 1953 on, his buddy Merle Travis played on nearly all Hank's sessions and on a good many tours.

Hank's way with a ballad was apparent on his biggest hit, his 1952 cover of Jimmie Heap's The Wild Side Of Life, which inspired the answer song, It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels (Kitty Wells's first hit). He further demonstrated his ballad skills on I'll Sign My Heart Away and other numbers. Nonetheless, he made his reputation on upbeat bounces like Wake Up Irene, Rub-A-Dub-Dub, A Fooler A Faker, Honky Tonk Girl and A Six Pack To Go. His hits helped keep the Western Swing sound alive during the '50s and '60s when it was largely out of favor.

Jim Halsey, who became Hank's manager in 1952, brought new ideas to the table like Hank's longtime relationship with Falstaff Beer in a day when corporate sponsorship of country acts was rare. Halsey suggested Capitol record Hank onstage at the Golden Nugget in Vegas in 1961—making him the first country artist to record a live album. Hank parted ways with Capitol in 1964. After two years with Warner Bros., he spent 13 years with Dot/MCA, recording in Nashville. The Dot era brought a few major hits. Nonetheless, while reflecting on his recording career in the book accompanying Bear Family's Thompson box set, he concluded, "I’d play one of those Dot records then drop one of those old Capitols on, and it was all the difference in the world between the presence and quality of the Capitols and what Dot put out." The Country Music Hall Of Fame inducted him in 1989.

 

Hank, who settled in Keller, Texas, northwest of Dallas, remained on the road, performing with local bands after dissolving the Brazos Valley Boys. His later albums included 1997’s 'Hank Thompson And Friends,'an underpromoted all-star effort on Curb, and HighTone's far superior 'Seven Decades,' released in 2000. Like fellow Hall of Famer Porter Wagoner, he literally continued until the end. At times, he'd appear with the Brazos Valley Boys, who'd reformed as an independent band, and billed more recent shows as part of his 'Sunset Tour.' He headlined a show back in Waco on October 8, 2007, proclaimed by Texas' governor as 'Hank Thompson Day.' Late that month, doctors discovered fast-moving, terminal lung cancer. He announced his retirement November 4; two days later, he was gone. In lieu of a funeral, friends and fans assembled at Billy Bob's Texas in Fort Worth on November 14 to celebrate his remarkable life and career. In 2008, Bear Family will release a 33 track Thompson collection as part of its 'Gonna Shake This Shack Tonight' series.