Hank Thompson & Friends
Hank Thompson
Vince Gill, Brooks & Dunn, Lyle Lovett, George Jones, Tanya Tucker, Marty Stuart, Junior Brown, Kitty Wells
Producer: Bill Millet
Curb Records (USA), 1997
1 CD
Catalogue #: CURB77925
EAN: 0715187792524
UPC: 715187792524
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Personnel includes: Hank Thompson, Vince Gill, Tanya Tucker, Bekka Bramlett, Kitty Wells, George Jones, Lyle Lovett, Bonnie Sheridan (vocals); David Ball (vocals, acoustic guitar); Junior Brown (vocals, steel guitar); Delany Bramlett (vocals, dobro); Marty Stuart (vocals, electric mandolin); Robert Bowlin (acoustic guitar, fiddle); Gerald Jones, Tanya Rae Brown (acoustic guitar); Reggie Young (electric guitar); Randy Kohrs (lap steel guitar, dobro, hand claps); Bobby Garrett (steel guitar); Buddy Spicher (fiddle, viola); Jeff Gurnsey (fiddle); Hargus "Pig" Robbins, Mark T. Jordan (piano); David Briggs (Hammond B-3 organ); David Spicher, Steve Layne (acoustic bass); Billy Thomas (drums, background vocals); Eddie Bayers (drums).
Engineers: Chuck Ainlay, Rick Will, Randy Merriman, Kim Carmel.
Recorded at Sound Emporium, Curb Studio and Dream Street Studio, Nashville, Tennessee; Delaney's Rock 'N' Roll Ranch, Los Angeles, California between September 1996 and June 1997. Includes liner notes by Bill Millet and Hank Thompson.
All tracks have been digitally mastered using HDCD technology.
Tracklist
Hank Thompson
It is hard to overstate the impact that Hank Thompson has had on country music. In the 1940s and '50s, with his famous backing band, the Brazos Valley Boys, Thompson perfected his style of Honkytonk Swing, a chart-topping recipe that fused the poly-instrumental richness of Western Swing with the prominent vocal/snare tandem of Honkytonk. Standing tall in glittering Nudie suits, Thompson always emphasized showmanship, but his resonant baritone was always the star of the show, launching chart hits--including "The Wild Side of Life" and "A Six Pack To Go,"--in an unprecedented six consecutive decades. Thompson also stretched boundaries as a businessman with a pioneering TV show and country's first Las Vegas show and first solo live release.
Vince Gill
With his unbeatable combination of vocal talent, songwriting ability, guitar prowess, and golf skills, Vince Gill defined the '90s country star. The former lead singer of Pure Prairie League and a backup vocalist on literally hundreds of country records, Gill came into his own as a star in 1990, and his high, distinctive voice has been a fixture on the charts ever since.
Lyle Lovett
In the 1980s Texan singer/songwriter Lyle Lovett was part of the progressive "New Traditionalist" country scene that breathed new life into Nashville. His is a unique mix of country, folk, gospel, and western swing, with lyrics heavily inspired by such venerated Texas songwriters as Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt. His wry attitude and quirky image also earned Lovett a career in films, and he had roles in the Robert Altman films SHORT CUTS and THE PLAYER, among others.
George Jones
George Jones is the greatest of country singers but he has also been a victim of the infamous hard-living honky-tonk lifestyle. Though he's gone through several phases, from rockabilly to honky-tonk to countrypolitan, his melismatic, Lefty Frizell-influenced style has remained at the core of his unique sound. His stormy marriage to Tammy Wynette (1969-75) included duet albums of love songs and bitter recriminations. By the late '70s, his drinking and cocaine addiction had made him so unreliable that he was known as "No Show Jones." In 1979 he received medical treatment and staged a significant comeback with I AM WHAT I AM, which included his greatest single, "He Stopped Loving Her Today."
Tanya Tucker
One of country music's true survivors, Tanya Tucker rocketed to stardom at a very young age, recording several country hits--including her 1972 classic, "Delta Dawn"--before the age of 16. A tumultuous romance with Glen Campbell that led to drug and alcohol addiction kept Tucker out of the limelight for several years, but she made a notable return in the '90s, garnering a Best Vocal CMA in '91 and a Best Album nomination in '95. Her working-class background, hardscrabble career, and undeniable talent have made Tucker a country music legend. She has continued to record and perform throughout the 2000s.
Junior Brown
The missing link between the raw Bakersfield sound of vintage Merle Haggard and Buck Owens and the rougher, punk-influenced alt-country bands, Junior Brown is a unique blend of tradition and innovation. Born Jamieson Brown in Kirksville, Indiana, on June 12, 1952, Brown is a former university music professor whose self-invented instrument, the guit-steel, is a two-necked hybrid of a standard electric guitar and a lap steel. Although Brown had been playing music professionally since his teens, his solo career started with two 1993 albums, 12 SHADES OF BROWN and GUIT WITH IT. His most commercially successful release was 1996's SEMI-CRAZY.
