I don't recall actually expressing a preference for Hank Snow over HANK
WILLIAMS at any stage, but if it came down to it, poor old Mr Snow would we
left at the roadside - fortunately, I feel confident in asserting that they
both have a welcome place in my record collection and, in fact, any good
country music record collection would be incomplete without at least a
version of I'm Movin' On.
In retrospect, Hank Snow has been quite influential upon modern music but in
less of an obvious way than Hank Williams Sr.
I love ALL the Hanks except maybe Hank Jr - don't know why exactly but his
brand of country music don't excite me none.
Junior Walker
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> From: Barry Mazor[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, 3 February 1999 12:34
> To: passenger side
> Subject: Re: Rank the Hank question
>
> Hank Thompson ,well.....a tiny maybe..but taking Hank SNOW over Hank
> Williams is beyond my comprehension... (I'm not sure we rally need to Rank
> the Hanks at this late date anyway!)
>
> I start out pretty much agreeing with Joe Gracey on this one...Mr. Snow,
> to
> my ear, has one of the less soulful and sometimes plain duller SINGING
> styles of major country starsk--but still somehow you can't let those
> records go.
> I'd coincidentally just picked up that Essential Hank Snow disc Don
> described earlier, about a week ago, to update what I'd had (an import
> disc
> with the hits and some ol' tapes., The "Essential" offers sound that's
> very good, besides a better selection of cuts than most discs in that odd
> series--and this is the interesting thing to me. Snow has these great
> SONGS...some he wrote, more he surely had a role in selecting, and the
> records are infectious anyway--with Atkins and anybody else at work on 'em
> at RCA, that whole apparatus, yes, they make some really good records out
> of the stuff.
> After a while, you start to feel some real affection for the often
> comically-imitated Snow nasality...you just give in. I think they're good
> records made by a singer with some real limitations. (Ever heard Elvis do
> his Snow on the Million Dollar Quartet session? Affectionate--but funny.)
>
> Barry
>
>
>
> >I for one can only attribute Hank Snow's success to the power of the
> >Opry apparatus to foist mediocre talent on people for 'way too many
> >years.
> >
> >>--
> >Joe Gracey
>
>
