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| MothershipRider... |
 Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 11:04 am |
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Veteran singer/songwriter/musician Durwood Haddock whose career dates
back to the golden age of country music releases his fifth album with
the unique title HANKS A LOT. In this issue, Durwood reaches back to
that golden era which he is most certainly familiar and comes up with
12 of his favorite HANK songs by HANK WILLIAMS, HANK SNOW, HANK
THOMPSON and HANK LOCKLIN. According to the liner notes these are
songs that Durwood became familiar with when he was barely a teenager
and later performed all of them on local radio, in honky tonks & dance
halls in north & west Texas before he was twenty years old.
While his career as a vocalist never reached the brass ring status,
his writing most certainly did. In l954 the first song he wrote with
Eddie Miller & recorded on 4 Star Records titled THERE SHE GOES didn't
exactly result in Durwood becoming a house hold name, but CARL SMITH'S
recording of that tune was a number three chart the following year in
l955 and started a whole new career for Durwood as a song writer.
Later the song was recorded by PATSY CLINE(There He Goes) and
eventually sold in the millions after it was re-issued in the box set
THE PATSY CLINE COLLECTION in l991. In l980 it was featured in the
Oscar winning movie, COAL MINER'S DAUGTHER the life story of Loretta
Lynn and later the movie THE HEART IS DECEITFUL ABOVE ALL THINGS
starring ASIA ARGENTO & PETER FONDA. To date the song has been
recorded over 150 times by various artists including JERRY WALLACE,
SAMMI SMITH, SCISSY SPACEK, K.D. LANG & ERNEST TUBB to name only a few
and has sold in the millions. While THERE SHE GOES has been the more
successful, Durwood has had other songs recorded by a stellar cast of
country music notables over the past half century,
Some of the songs in HANKS A LOT were never on the popularity charts
but others were number one and some were in the top five, even so they
were all special to Durwood and after you hear his version of these
all time greats, you no doubt, will agree. Be assured, when you put
this one on the player, Durwood will take you on a musical trip back
to the "Golden Era of Country Music".
http://durwoodhaddock.bizland.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/wonder_where_hksnow.mp3
http://www.Hanks-A-Lot.com |
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