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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 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 6, 2007 · 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...
Aug 5, 2020 · From the 1940s until his 2007 passing, Hank Thompson made a direct impact on honky tonk, Western swing and other country music offshoots.
Nov 6, 2007 · Henry William Thompson (September 3, 1925 – November 6, 2007) was an American country music singer-songwriter and musician whose career spanned seven decades.
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.,...
