My favorite from Hank Williams, and I love so many.

I'll be honest, it's such a good song, but I don't think it's the saddest he's sang. Pins and Needles In My Heart I Told A Lie To My Heart I Hang My Head And Cry Wedding Bells Definitely a good one, but in my opinion, these are just a few songs I think are sadder than I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry. Definitely a great song though

@@kingmonkey460alone and forsaken is the one for me that’s the saddest

@@bre2581 you know, I suppose it is all up to one's own opinion Hank's saddest song. Alone and Forsaken is a good one

Move it On Over is arguably the world's first rock and roll song. Came out in '47

Many people don't like Nashville Skyline, I love it. If you don't know it check out Dylan's country song *Wallflower*... Hank was Bob's first musical Idol

@@michele-33 Nashville Skyline is a great album as Is his John Wesley Harding album from around the same time.

@@Hartlor_Tayley Love John Wesley Harding. Out of all Dylan's albums there are a couple albums where his vocal delivery is not to my liking... Time Out of Mind being one. But...the outtakes are better than album versions. Basement Tapes are excellent - he & The Band had such fun during that period! Love Desire too. Bob used so many voices over the decades.

@@Hartlor_Tayley The group Judas Priest took their name from the song *Frankie Lee and Judas Priest from John Wesley Harding*. Bob's music has influenced countless artists!

@@michele-33 Absolutely love Nashville Skyline. Wallflower is great.

I absolutely love Lost Highway! It is so fun. It's a classic cautionary tale to younger men, even though he was only around 28 when he wrote it or something, laugh.

@@stevedahlberg8680 I found out Hank didn’t write it. Great song though.

@@Hartlor_Tayley I can't tell you how many times I've played that song with friends sitting around a campfire or bonfire on a front porch drinking whiskey in my younger days. It just resonate so much and it's such a great song for him.

@@stevedahlberg8680 same here. It’s one of those songs. If a person were to learn just one song for when the guitar gets passed around, that’s the song. Hank made it his own the way he sang it. There’s a lot of Hank in Dylan in fact when I saw Dylan he played two Hank songs “Lonesome Whistle” and another. CCR the Grateful Dead, the band. Lots of Hank there two.

@@Hartlor_Tayley Great examples and also, pretty much all of country music even today to some degree or the other, but many others in the biggest example I can think of right off the top of my head is Lynyrd Skynyrd. They were so influenced by Hank Williams and Jimmie Rodgers it is unbelievable.

Some of those 1920s and 30s songs were just incredible.

@@Hartlor_Tayley I didn't appreciate it as a kid and it was definitely the music of my grandparents generation who were teens in the twenties, in fact I think my grandma wanted to be a flapper girl when she was a tween, laugh. Instead she got married young and raised four children during the Great Depression and WWII. And my parents heard it a lot and their music was a bit later but it was nostalgic for them. But later as I got more mature as a musician and in my study of Music going way back, I suddenly understood why it was a new thing at the time and all the rage and it's just so weird to think about but then I saw that my grandfather had actually written seven or eight songs and had them published that sound just exactly like that 1920s and 1930s music and I learn to play them and then in junior high I started in jazz band on the trumpet and we learned all the old big band stuff, and Count Basie and so forth and everything just suddenly changed and I could understand it. So it took me awhile, but now I completely agree with you!

@@stevedahlberg8680 we have a similar story. My dad was jazz guy and I played trumpet in band, before I played guitar. It took me a while to come around to Hank and early country/blues but I was basically force fed swing ad Dixieland from a young age so I got that rhythm which paid off as a musician.

@@Hartlor_Tayley That's so funny, I had wanted to play trumpet since kindergarten but they blackmailed me and made me take classical piano lessons instead, and then in fourth grade when you can take it in public school, I started trumpet and I played it all the way through high school, was usually first chair and won awards at State and so forth. I still use it some today in live performances and in the recording studio, although I mostly play guitar and sing, sometimes keyboards, bass guitar and drums. But it was that whole trumpet experience that exposed me to the old stuff and my dad had a 1955 Capitol Records recording from live on Bourbon Street called Midnight on Bourbon Street, Sharkey Bonano and his Kings of Dixieland, and it had such a huge impact on me it was insane. And what I read about it was that those primary figures that were huge at the time in New Orleans, really were young in the 1920s and came into that status over a few decades. But your post suddenly reminded me of the early Andrews Sisters. I didn't really hear them for how amazing they were as an adult musician until probably into my late twenties, although of course I heard them a lot in the background when I was younger, because again it was the music of my grandparents generation. But the stuff they were doing in the late 1930s and during WWII just absolutely blows me away. And so I read all about them and suddenly it clicked. Those three sisters grew up in a very musical family and apparently their dad had a band and it had a horn section and they heard the trumpets playing those jazzy, raucous horn lines and being so incredibly tight together and with very close harmonies, that that's how they learned to sing! So not only are they super tight because they are sisters, but they patterned off of that sound and that is why their singing is not only astonishing but they're so free with their sounds; they make all kinds of sounds like you would hear horns in a horn section doing; it's fantastic, laugh.

@@stevedahlberg8680 those sibling harmonies can’t be beat. They were super talented. I agree with you, once I started playing in a rock band and writing songs I really started listening to music way outside of the rock genre and I started hearing subtle things and behind the front of it if you know what I mean.

You absolutely nailed it with that comment.

Liaten to wete still a livin to hear the bars

And half as much

This was about A YEAR after television was invented (maybe two) Most people were not confident in stage antics. Nobody had seen much yet. There were no Mick Jaggers yet.

Hand never hurried his words. I once heard someone say that Hank drew every ounce of feeling from every word in a song. And Hank was once quoted as saying about his songs that he wanted a country boy to hear his song on Saturday night and be able to sing it on Monday morning.

( Fox & Banjo is a True fairytale, not strictly blarney: see Andy Thorn playing banjo, fiddle, etc to a fox family who live nearby)

Pictures From The Other Side Of Life is absolutely amazing.

Check out Hanks song “Setting the Woods on Fire” sexual innuendos galore.

I think it pretty much explains the 60’s

HUGE influence on bob dylan, that cant be said enough.