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Henry William Thompson (September 3, 1925 – November 6, 2007) [1] was an American country music singer-songwriter and musician whose career spanned seven decades. 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.
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 13, 2020 · Hank Thompson – 20 Greatest Hits. Playlist created with http://www.playlist-converter.net, multi services playlist converter.
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.
“The King of Western Swing,” the “living root of country music.” Henry William “Hank” Thompson became a western swing and country music star right from his hometown of Waco. Hank was born in Waco on September 3, 1925 to German-Czech immigrant parents Jule Thomas Thompson and Zexia Ilda Wells Thompson.
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...
