Hank Williams Sr Tribute: Lost Highway

Hank Williams Sr. was the greatest country singer to ever live.

He is the true bard of the rural Southerner, and for all who have walked as strangers through this passing middle earth.

His greatness is derived not from training nor technique, but a profound honesty of the human spirit.

His is a passion targeted not to market nor musical genre, but to the souls of those who have such ears to hear with.

This is a concern largely lost upon todays country music industry, which has mostly abandoned the needs of the spirit for the concerns of the market place.

To compare most of todays singers to Hank Sr. is like comparing a bunch of soap opera stars to an Old Testament prophet.

Ol Hank, the country music king of kings, was decidedly unorthodox and anti-institutional. Having arisen from a rough and unsheltered environment.

It has been said that he was living alone on the streets by age twelve, where an old black man named Tee Tot taught him to play the guitar.

Even though he experienced much worldly success and acclimation, Ol Hank stayed true to his inner voice, as sad, lonely, and beautiful as it was.

His soul left this old world one night in the back of a Cadillac somewhere in Indiana. Hopefully to find a home. It never was at home here.

You see, Ol Hank never sang with the voice of Hubris which is the compelling agent for much of humankinds endeavors. He just told it like it was, simple and clear.

He transmitted on the frequency of spiritual honesty, which is a lost art in the clanging of a materially-obsessed world, but one which must return if we are to survive as a species.

In this manner, Hank Williams is a true prophet of what is most honorable in humanity. Those who have ears let them hear.

If there is another world beyond the here and now, someone save me a spot near where Ol Hank is picking, be it in the frothy firmaments of joy or in the glow of unpleasant fires, for what Ive seen and heard in this old world has mostly been lies and misdeeds, but Ol Hanks voice has always rang trueand it always will.

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[MichailZacho]

Stunning! One of the most bracing, powerful pieces of music which speaks life's Truths better than today's almost fake country music. Hank . . . goosebumps . . . pains and joy ripping through us . . . tears.

[bootleggersouth]

I agree. Every now and then, a true 'Bard of the People' emerges to speak directly to the heart, though often through technically imperfect means. This is to say that they communicate with an exalted essence of right brain fortitude in the Dionysian sense of artistry, as opposed to the Appolonian sense of technical perfection and lofty circumstance.

Some other true American bards of the 20th century include Slim Lightning Hopkins and Bob Dylan.

[MrGrimreaper99]

i've been listening to johnny for 26 years but he's still not better than hank but he is great also

[THEFLYINGREDNECK]

1-hank williams.

2-willie nelson.

3-johnny cash.

4-david allan coe.

5-hank iii

TOP 5 COUNTRY STARS!

[constancelena]

True Bard of the Southerner-- agree--Hank wrote and sang about what he saw, felt, experienced. He's my hero because Hank was able to rise above his birth situation (birth defect called spinal bifida plus extreme poverty) and was able to have a hugely successful musical career. And to me all of Hank's pain, alcohol and drug abuse are a tremendous part of what made him such a classic. If not all, most of us can see ourselves reflected back in the mirror of a Hank Sr tune.

[steeworker98]

The song is not talking about depression. It is talking about the path he chose and what it cost him. His wife and their marriage were lost to his drinking and pain killers. Eventually his life was lost to it years of living rough and ramblin. I am 32 I know what the song is about and it is not easy for those around you to watch as you take this path, though I don't use drugs I don't turn down a drink and ramble sunset to sunrise.

[jazzaste123]

Hank is a legend still

[mcc8971]

2 people are stuck on that lost highway.

[jhatt25]

@bootleggersouth Hank Sr, died in the back of his car in WV not fucking Indiana!!!!! but otherwise good video just do a lil more research

[whscheerleaders11]

He passed away in WV in the back seat of a Cadillac... Ya know some

Cowboys like. Me go out like that

[jazzaste123]

Thanks man I'm a huge hank fan thanks died

[chewychompify]

I rode the lonely train for many a year...this music helped every fuckin mile

[chewychompify]

Very FUCKING true ...Shelton brings his family talents and I think his Granddaddy is digging it...