Cash, Skaggs honor their dads with new albums Oct 11, 2009
Miss the Mississippi and You brims with the kind of Sunday-afternoon jazz-pop associated with Norah Jones, and Cash sets Hank Snow s I m Movin On to a slinky, late-night junkyard vibe. A dusky cover of Take These Chains From My Heart, a chart-topper for both Hank Williams and Ray Charles, is mesmerizing for its stark understatement. (Boston Globe)
Hardly Strictly packs in a crowd for music fest Oct 5, 2009
Breaking in the new Towers of Gold Stage at the far end of Lindley Meadow just before noon, Nashville guitarist Buddy Miller brought out a couple of special guests - Emmylou Harris to sing devastating harmonies on his song "Wide River to Cross" and Robert Plant to unleash his leather lung wail on the Hank Snow standard "I'm Movin' On.". "This is like going to school for me," said the Led Zeppelin frontman, who minutes earlier had been taking pictures of gophers digging in the lawn backstage. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Dylan "poem" on sale was actually Hank Snow song May 21, 2009
Dylan "poem" on sale was actually Hank Snow song ... Dylan "poem" on sale was actually Hank Snow song ... NEW YORK (Reuters) A "poem" purportedly written by a teenage Bob Dylan and up for auction at Christie's is actually a song written by the late Canadian country singer Hank Snow, the auction house said on Wednesday. (Yahoo News)
Dylan Poem Was Based On Country Tune May 21, 2009
"Little Buddy," estimated to fetch $10,000 to $15,000 once it goes on sale June 23, was "a revised version of lyrics of a Hank Snow song," Christie's said ... According to the Hank Snow Country Music Center Web site, the lyrics and music for "Little Buddy" were composed by Snow, who died in 1999. (Click2Houston, TX)
'Dylan poem' actually by Hank Snow May 21, 2009
A poem about a dead dog which was thought to have been written by Bob Dylan, was actually a song by late Canadian country singer Hank Snow ... But in a statement the auction house said: "The words are in fact a revised version of lyrics of a Hank Snow song.". (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Anita Carter, 'Songbird' May 18, 2009
In addition to solo performances, it features rarities she recorded with the Carter Sisters (which included Mother Maybelle, June, Anita, and their other sister, Helen) and duets with Waylon Jennings, Hank Snow, and Johnny Cash. "Songbird" is a reminder that Anita Carter, who passed away in 1999, is the great singer you never heard but shouldn't miss out on any longer. (Boston Globe)
Movie stars sometimes hit sour notes in music Apr 28, 2009
Im also influenced by old country artists like Hank Williams, Hank Snow, Willie Nelson, Eddy Arnold, Merle Haggard. . (MSNBC -- News)
UK offers South Carolina teammates Mar 12, 2009
The old country music hit "I've Been Everywhere," popularized by Hank Snow in the 60s and revived by Johnny Cash in the 90s, rattles off a series of town names to a rollicking beat, paying homage to the singer's hard-working lifestyle on the road. When it comes recruiting talent to the University of Kentucky, Joker Phillips could perform his own version for the state of South Carolina. (Kentucky Sports -- Rivals.com)
Keyser Council has full agenda Mar 10, 2009
He also penned Smokey the Bear for the National Forest Service mascot Smokey Bear, and wrote country songs for Hank Snow, George Jones and Eddie Arnold. Rollins died in 1973 and is buried in Keyser at Queens Point Memorial Cemetery. (Keyser Mineral Daily News Tribune, WV)
Why Buddy's legend refuses to die Feb 8, 2009
They took Berry's guitar leads, Diddley's rumbling beat and Little Richard's lack of inhibition, and fitted them together with the plangent country music of Hank Snow and Hank Williams, the soundtrack to their childhoods in the small town of Lubbock. Straight away they made a special impact, particularly in repressed mid-'50s Britain, where there were no Packards and few Wurlitzer jukeboxes. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
