Jun 29, 2026 · 21 min · 10 segments
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Well, that was Bob Dylan talking into a waste paper basket, right? And occasionally flipping his
I always think that when I loved covering this song, because I love Hank Williams, and just hearing it again, you can never mistake a Hank Williams song, even before he even starts singing, the slide guitar mix.
It's similarly to, in a different way, obviously, to Townes Van Zandt, who we were talking about last episode.
isn't it?
I mean, again, another... destructive alcoholic like towns vans out was i i just think there aren't many singers who can do heartbreak just in their voice without needing to give any effort than than hank williams does there's something yeah sensitive
there was a very um you know ray uh roy acaf who was um you know the king of the grand old opry and he was like the kind of a star maker or a star breaker.
And Hank Williams was always, you know, from his early days, he was drunk most of the time.
And he eventually blotted his copy book, as we say over here, with the Grand Ole Opry.
Well, that was Bob Dylan talking into a waste paper basket, right? And occasionally flipping his
I always think that when I loved covering this song, because I love Hank Williams, and just hearing it again, you can never mistake a Hank Williams song, even before he even starts singing, the slide guitar mix.
It's similarly to, in a different way, obviously, to Townes Van Zandt, who we were talking about last episode.
isn't it?
I mean, again, another... destructive alcoholic like towns vans out was i i just think there aren't many singers who can do heartbreak just in their voice without needing to give any effort than than hank williams does there's something yeah sensitive
there was a very um you know ray uh roy acaf who was um you know the king of the grand old opry and he was like the kind of a star maker or a star breaker.
And Hank Williams was always, you know, from his early days, he was drunk most of the time.
And he eventually blotted his copy book, as we say over here, with the Grand Ole Opry.
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