Happy New Year to you and yours and lang may yer lums reek.
The more long suffering among you will know the drill by now. (Happily I have got to the stage that I can cut and paste most of this!)
New Year is a time for traditions and since 2015 tradition has dictated that New Years Day is the day when CCM pays homage to two absolute musical giants who both happened to die on this day some 44 years apart. Hank Williams, the Hillbilly Shakespeare, died on this day in 1953 aged just 29 whereas Townes Van Zandt was 52 when he died on New Year's Day 1997. Two troubled souls who had their issues both physically and mentally and who had a strong predilection for drink and drugs.
Thankfully their genius far outweighed their demons and they both produced canons of music which still enthrall people to this day and no doubt for many more years to come.
Again in keeping with tradition I'll get in that it will obviously be downhill now on these pages for the rest of the year before anyone else does.
Hank Williams - I Saw The Light
Townes Van Zandt - If I Needed You
Hank Williams - Take These Chains From My Heart
No complaints from me, CC!
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ReplyDeleteHard core troubadours
DeleteWas it Townes?
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