Hank Snow

[Weekend_Sawyer]

I just picked up a new, to me, hank snow CD. It reminded about the time I went to a Rodeo in Upper Marlboro a little over 25 years ago. We enjoyed the Rodeo and that night there was Clogging, the dance type not drain type, then Sheb Wolley and Ben Colder did a show. I swear those guys must be brothers! Hank Snow wound up the show and it was great. At one point a big fight broke out and Hank didn't miss a beat, he just said "Thats right, everybody dance" and went on with the song.

Jon

[Hi-Country Orange]

W.S. 25 yr. ago if people wanted to fight most generally you let them & just went on about your day, because there was not as much concern about getting shot or stabbed,simpler times i guess.  :D
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[mike_van]

That CD is about the only way you'd get to hear Hank nowadays - Him, Ray Price, Jim Reeves, Carl Smith - They made a lot better music than the junk played today.

[TexasTimbers]

I don't listen to much country, but when I do I plug in a Johnny Horton or Marty Robbins CD. I consider alot of Horton's music more folk than C&W, and Robbin's music more Western than "Country" and Western.

Mike, all those artists you named, were among my parents collection when I was a kid. I can still see in my minds' eye a Carl Smith album jacket with him sitting on a horse with some kind of black and white trim around the saddle and a big cowboy hat. I don't remember the color of the hat but there was black and white around the saddle somehow. Does it sound familiar to anyone?

[SwampDonkey]

Mike, my grandparents, mostly grandfather as I recall, would sit and play those artist's records in the slow times of the year when the fishing and hunting were done. I think my uncle still has stacks of those old records around. I wish times were like the 70's all over again. 

[dancan]

Just got to pipe up here , he's a product of Nova Scotia 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Snow

[sawguy21]

My grandfather was a big fan of Hank Snow. I still remember the scratchy 78's.

[DR Buck]

Mike, my grandparents, mostly grandfather as I recall, would sit and play those artist's records in the slow times of the year when the fishing and hunting were done. I think my uncle still has stacks of those old records around. I wish times were like the 70's all over again. 

Over the past couple years I've been digitizing my music so I can play it in the house, truck and my mp3 player.  I currently have over 4000 songs digitized.   Half of them are old country and very early R&R.   I still play Hank Snow.  I also have and listen to quite frequently:

Slim Whitman
Waylon Jennings
Tex Ritter
Buck Owens
Collin Raye
Eddie Arnold
Gene Autry
Red Sovine
and of course Willie Nelson


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[mike_van]

And, not to leave out the female side of country, Patsy Cline, Kitty Wells, and the best country voice I ever heard, Tammy Wynette.  We saw Tammy at a show years ago, she came out on stage, sat on a stool, kicked her shoes off, and just sang.  No jumpin' around, no trick lights or any other bs - Just Tammy.  What a voice she had.

[sgtmaconga]

As with most of you i grew up in a country music home. mine was mostly at a place called the Wagon Wheel in Warner Robins Ga. i have not been to that place in almost 25 years. I went thru WR the other day. it's now some kind of shop. i bet they burned up a lot of saw blades remodling that place. it was one of the orginal knife and gun clubs

[fuzzybear]

   Hank Snow, Jonny Horton, and Hank Carr, All came from somewhere else, but all of them were sons of the Yukon.  There isn't a Yukoner alive that doesn't recognize those names and can recite half their songs. :D