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| Artist: Hank Thompson & His Brazos Valley Boys
Label: EMI Special Products
Category: Music
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Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 10119
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.7 x 0.5
UPC: 724383690121
EAN: 0724383690121
ASIN: B000002U39
Release Date: June 11, 1996
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| Tracks:
| • | Humpty Dumpty Heart - Hank Thompson, Thompson, Hank | | • | Whoa, Sailor - Hank Thompson, Thompson, Hank | | • | Swing Wide Your Gate of Love - Hank Thompson, Thompson, Hank | | • | The Wild Side of Life - Hank Thompson, Carter, Arlie | | • | Wake Up, Irene - Hank Thompson, Allard, Weldon | | • | Cryin' in the Deep Blue Sea - Hank Thompson, Thompson, Hank | | • | A Fooler, a Faker - Hank Thompson, Gray, Billy | | • | Wildwood Flower - Hank Thompson, Carter, A.P. | | • | Honky Tonk Girl - Hank Thompson, Harding, Chuck | | • | How Cold Hearted Can You Get - Hank Thompson, Gray, Billy | | • | This Train - Hank Thompson, Traditional | | • | Yesterday's Girl - Hank Thompson, Gray, Billy | | • | The New Green Light - Hank Thompson, Thompson, Hank | | • | Big Beaver - Hank Thompson, Wills, Bob | | • | Total Stranger - Hank Thompson, Thompson, Hank | | • | A Six Pack to Go - Hank Thompson, Hart, Dick | | • | Drivin' Nails in My Coffin - Hank Thompson, Irby, Jerry | | • | I Cast a Lonesome Shadow - Hank Thompson, Russwurm, Lynn | | • | Too in Love - Hank Thompson, Fairchild, Ned | | • | Oklahoma Hills - Hank Thompson, Guthrie, Jack |
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Amazon.com
Best known for 1951's "The Wild Side of Life," Thompson wed prewar Western swing to postwar honky-tonk and created a sound that proved viable both on the radio (where swing was usually ignored) and in the dance halls. He kept it up with a steady string of hits that included beer-drinking ballads, heart songs, folkish material, and flat-out novelties; though he plied a distinctly Texas sound, he was never shy about looking to the Southeast for material. His bands, often joined in the studio by guitarist Merle Travis, framed his vocals perfectly without ever taking the spotlight off the singer (and also cut instrumental hits such as "Wildwood Flower" on their own). With 20 tracks, this is the best single-CD sampler of Thompson's early work. --John Morthland
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| Customer Reviews: Read 12 more reviews...
Sing, Shout & Swing! December 23, 2000
LillyDale (Quail Hollow)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
I set my CD player on the front porch last summer, and this CD spent more time in it than any other! This is classic stuff, folks, but some of the best cuts on the album may be tracks you're not familiar with. Wake Up, Irene and Total Stranger make me grin every time I hear the lyrics. For those of you who remember how to dance to REAL western swing, there is the rollicking instrumental version of Wildwood Flower. Hank's roadhouse voice, hot band and tight arrangements are the perfect accompaniments to porch dancing with your best guy or gal. This album gets the rodeo queen salute!
Thompson/ the heart of man July 10, 1999
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
Thompsons music is truely a dream. Nursery rymes in a Honk-Tonk, only he could do it with style ! I have loved him from childhood and am glad to see I can still find his music and it fits as good today as it did 30 years ago.
Akin to a religious experience June 10, 2002
Francis Callahan (Lawrence, Massachusetts)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
My son gave this album to me, his 69 year old father, and hearing Hank's warm, natural, soothing voice bridged the span of years from 1953 when I first heard it overseas in Japan, and 2001 as though they were but a moment in time. I was transported to the year 1953, was 22 and memorizing every word on his album Capitol H418, Songs of the Brazos Valley. What a great pleasure to know he is still bringing his music to yet another generation in yet another century! His lyrics reveal, without preaching, a standard and quality of life we would all benefit by emulating.
Akin to a religious experience June 10, 2002
Francis Callahan (Lawrence, Massachusetts)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
My son gave this album to me, his 69 year old father, and hearing Hank's warm, natural, soothing voice bridged the span of years from 1953 when I first heard it overseas in Japan, and 2001 as though they were but a moment in time. I was transported to the year 1953, was 22 and memorizing every word on his album Capitol H418, Songs of the Brazos Valley. What a great pleasure to know he is still bringing his music to yet another generation in yet another century! His lyrics reveal, without preaching, a standard and quality of life from which we would all benefit by emulating.
A Country & Western great August 31, 2005
Jack Calvin King (Harlingen, Texas)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Hank Thompson was one of my favorites from the late forties thru the early 60s. This collection is a wonderful piece of nostalgia. I marveled again at songs I hadn't heard in 40 years. I smiled and nodded when I heard Whoa Sailor, and I shed a tear of guilt when I heard Yesterday's Girl. This is a great addition to any Country & Western collection.
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