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Thompson's musical style, characterized as honky-tonk Western swing, was a mixture of fiddles, electric guitar, and steel guitar that featured his distinctive, smooth baritone vocals. His backing band, The Brazos Valley Boys, was voted the top Country Western Band for 14 years in a row by Billboard.
Nov 8, 2007 · Hank Thompson, a sequined singer and songwriter who fused jazz-inflected Western swing and hard-edged honky-tonk to produce seven decades of musical musings, seasoned with sly humor, on loving,...
Feb 18, 2010 · Hank's superb 1964 version of his signature song, and one of the biggest hits in C&W music history. This tune has regularly been among our Top 10 most viewed!
Nov 7, 2007 · Country Music Hall of Fame member Hank Thompson died late Tuesday (Nov. 6) at his home near Fort Worth, Texas, following a battle with lung cancer. The 82-year-old singer, songwriter and...
Nov 13, 2020 · Hank Thompson – 20 Greatest Hits. Playlist created with http://www.playlist-converter.net, multi services playlist converter.
Hank Thompson. Affable Texan with a deep baritone who updated Western swing with well-written honky tonk songs and produced dozens of hits. Read Full Biography.
Thompson's musical style, characterized as honky-tonk Western swing, was a mixture of fiddles, electric guitar, and steel guitar that featured his distinctive, smooth baritone...
Nov 6, 2007 · Hank Thompson was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1989 and to the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1997. He succumbed to lung cancer on November 6, 2007, at his home in Keller, Texas.
Nov 7, 2007 · U.S. country singer Hank Thompson has died of lung cancer, just days after cancelling atour and announcing his retirement. He was 82. Thompson died late Tuesday at his home in Fort Worth, Tex.,...
Nov 8, 2007 · Hank Thompson, a pioneering honky-tonk singer and songwriter with a crystalline tenor voice, whose biggest hit, “The Wild Side of Life,” generated a fervent response in the early 1950s from...
