HANK WILLIAMS

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Hank Williams
(The History of Country Music Radio Show, with interviews by Red Foley, Minnie Pearl, and others) (Real Media, 2.5 MB)


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BOB DYLAN:
Hank Williams was the first influence, I would think, I guess, for a longer period of time than anybody else..

Bronstein Interview, Montreal, CDN, Feb 20, 1966.

SOME HANK WILLIAMS SONGS COVERED BY DYLAN:

JOHN BAULDIE:
I love the scene in the hotel room with Joan Baez when Dylan sings the Hank Williams songs. Can you remember how long he was singing for that night?

D. A. PENNEBAKER:
Oh, he sang a lot. I have a lot more film of that. They did one marvellous one, Joan and he, that I was going to use, but it was a little too long: "Good news travels slow, but bad news travels like wildfire." Do you know that song? It's a great song, and they sang it together.

Jul 15, 1986 interview; reprinted in John Bauldie (ed.), Wanted Man: In Search of Bob Dylan, London, 1992 (paperback edition with additional material), pp. 59-60.

• (I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle
  (First McKenzie's Tape(s), late 1961; Cynthia Gooding's 'Folksinger's Choice', Mar 11, 1962; Columbia Studios, Oct 26, 1962; New Haven, CT, Jan 12, 1990; State College, Pa, Jan 14, 1990)
  

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  (most likely learned from Johnny Cash's Sun Records version)

• Lost Highway (Leon Payne)
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• I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
  (duets with Joan Baez, Savoy Hotel, London, GB, May 2-6, 1965; featured in "Don't Look Back"

• Weary Blues From Waitin'
  (uncirculated "Don't Look Back" footage, Savoy Hotel, London, GB, May 2-6, 1965)

• Be Careful Of Stones That You Throw (Bonnie Dodd)
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• You Win Again
  
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  unissued Basement Tapes, West Saugerties, NY, May-Jun 1967

• Kaw-Liga
  (Studio, NYC, Oct 1975; featured in 'Renaldo and Clara')

• Your Cheatin' Heart
  (Guest Performance with Rick Danko/Levon Helm; Lone Star Cafe; NYC, NY, Feb 16, 1983)

• Thank God
  (with TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS, Chabad Telethon,
  prob. San Francisco, CA, Jun 1986)

• A House of Gold
  (Madrid, E, Jun 15, 1989; Athens, GR, Jun 28, 1989)

• Hey, Good Lookin'
  (Tuscaloosa, AL, Oct 26, 1990)
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