Hank Williams: Last News

Country music is one of the oldest, most popular genres of music in history. And Hank Williams, a country music icon, was one of the leading U.S. singers of the 1940s.

Chris Morris Music ReporterKris Kristofferson, who attained success as both a groundbreaking country music singer-songwriter and a Hollywood film and TV star, died Saturday at home in Maui, Hawaii. No cause of death was given, but he was described as passing away peacefully while surrounded by family. He was 88.Said his family in a statement, “It is with a heavy heart that we share the news our husband/father/grandfather, Kris Kristofferson, passed away peacefully on Saturday, Sept.

Bob Dylan treated fans to a live performance of his classic song ‘All Along The Watchtower’ marking his first time playing it in six years.Yesterday (September 12), the legendary rock icon opened his show at the Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio with the 1967 track, treating the audience with his first live performance of the song since November 2018.The song – which appears on Dylan’s eighth studio album, ‘John Wesley Harding’ – has been covered by various artists throughout the years but is mainly associated with the guitar icon Jimi Hendrix and his electrifying rendition which was recorded with the Jimi Hendrix Experience for their third studio album, 1968’s ‘Electric Ladyland’. Released only six months after Dylan’s original, Hendrix’s cover became a Top 20 hit the same year it was released and received a Grammy Hall of Fame award in 2001.Dylan first played ‘All Along The Watchtower’ at the launch of his reunion tour with The Band on January 3, 1974.

Nick Cave has opened up about recording with Johnny Cash, recalling him as “a sort of terrifying apparition of a man”.While appearing as a guest on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the ‘Red Right Hand’ singer sat down to discuss his forthcoming album ‘Wild God‘ and opened up about working with Cash on a duet cover of Hank Williams’ ‘I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry’.“Just to be clear – Johnny Cash was my hero. I used to watch him as a child.

Bob Dylan played ‘Rainy Day Women #12 & 35’ for the first time in almost a decade at an Outlaw Music Festival touring stop in Boise, Idaho.Whilst on his joint tour with Willie Nelson, Dylan has been making headlines for putting obscure reworks into old standards. However, now he is digging back into his own catalogue of tracks to surprise audiences and keep his set lists unpredictable.Dylan performed ‘Rainy Day Women #12 & 35’ for the first time since 2016.

Bob Dylan kicked off the ‘Outlaw Music Festival Tour’ this weekend with a typically unpredictable setlist of ‘50s blues and country covers and deep cuts – watch footage below.The music icon has garnered a reputation for idiosyncratic setlist choices – fans in Atlanta and Charlotte were once again caught off guard by his decision to indulge in choice cuts from years gone by over fan favourites.The opening night included versions of Willie Dixon’s ‘My Babe’, Chuck Berry’s ‘Little Queenie’ and Hank Williams’ ‘Cold, Cold Heart’, as well as four separate songs from his own 2012 album ‘Tempest’, including ‘Long And Wasted Years’ and ‘Scarlet Town’.Now he’s ripping up Little Queenie. What is happening?? pic.twitter.com/nUrvb6LCBY— Ray Padgett (@rayfp) June 22, 2024Best song yet pic.twitter.com/pszagrg4si— Ray Padgett (@rayfp) June 22, 2024That set also included more classic Dylan cuts such as ‘Simple Twist Of Fate’ and ‘Things Have Changed’, while the second night in Charlotte also included ‘Ballad Of A Thin Man’, ‘I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight’ and ‘Highway 61 Revisited’.The curious inclusion of songs from the ‘Tempest’ album was further highlighted after fans spotted T-shirts promoting the album’s 2012 tour on sale at the festival’s merch booth.The Bob Dylan shirt onsale last night was for “Tempest Tour 2012.” They’re new; it says “c2024” on the back.

Post Malone has revealed the name and release date for his sixth full-length album – find out more below.Today (June 19), the rapper – real name Austin Richard Post – took to social media to announce the album via a picture of a billboard in Nashville. The billboard revealed the album’s name to be ‘F-1 Trillion’, while the rapper confirmed on Instagram that it’s due to arrive on August 16.

Alan Jackson has one last good time in him.The 65-year-old country icon just announced his ‘Last Call: One More for the Road Tour’ that will take him to arenas all over the U.S. from August 2024 up until May 2025.And while he hasn’t announced a New York or New Jersey show, he will come close when he performs at Boston’s TD Garden on Friday, Aug.

Post Malone has performed a Hank Williams cover during a surprise gig in Nashville this week (April 3) – check out footage of the moment below.The cover arrives at a time when country music is having a resurgence in music. Beyonce released her new album ‘Cowboy Carter’ on Friday (March 29) which contains covers of Dolly Parton’s ‘Jolene’, and features artists including Willie Nelson and Nancy Sinatra.Taylor Swift is also gearing up to release a country album next month with ‘The Tortured Poets Department’, while Post Malone is gearing up to make a new country album too.

Post Malone, Morgan Wallen and Hardy took the stage together at Wednesday’s CMA Awards to pay tribute to the late country legend Joe Diffie. Wallen and Hardy started together, running through Diffie’s 1993 song “John Deere Green,” before welcoming Malone to the stage to sing the 1994 hit “Pickup Man” as a trio. While Post Malone is most strongly associated with hip-hop and pop, he has shown his love of the country genre before with numerous covers of songs in the genre, like “I’m Gonna Miss Her (The Fishin’ Song)” by Brad Paisley, “You Can Have the Crown” by Sturgill Simpson and “There’s a Tear in My Beer” by Hank Williams.

Country music fans are in for a treat later this month when a terrific tribute act comes to town.

Dakota Johnson is sharing some rare insight into her decades-long friendship with Riley Keough.

A.D. Amorosi Tony Bennett was the last man standing – the saloon crooner, the jazz interpreter, the subtlest of stylists of the Great American Songbook, the man that Sinatra called the greatest popular singer in the world.“Your old man takes chances” is what Frank Sinatra told Danny Bennett, Tony’s son and manager. “When others zig, Tony zags,” said Danny. Those risks involved the vocal dynamics of grandeur (no Tony Bennett concert was complete without him shutting down all amplification, singing a cappella without a mic, and rocking the room), of pensive emotional nuance, of a whisper’s near-silence. With Bennett’s passing on Friday morning at age 96, after his struggle with Alzheimer’s since 2016 and retirement from the stage in 2021, his era of grace and elegance in vocal song is gone. He left a rich, long body of work that will last forever. Choosing 150, let alone 15, of Tony Bennett’s finest musical moments is a tough call to make with early sweeping singles such as “Because of You” and jazzy signatures such as “I Left My Heart in San Francisco.” So Variety has mixed the hits with the rarities in touching on his legendary career.“Cold Cold Heart” (1951)Country songwriter Hank Williams had only written and released his melancholy romancer a year before Tony Bennett made it into a smash pop hit. But with its bold-faced vocal clarity and his tear-in-your-beer warble, it’s not hard to hear that an original interpretive singer was on his way up, and that he wore diversity on his sleeve as a song selector.

Dolly Parton is, without a doubt, one of the most iconic country stars of all time. With hits like "Jolene," "My Tennessee Mountain Home" and "I Will Always Love You," she has cemented her spot in country music history, and Parton talked to Fox News Digital about what the genre means to her. "There'll always be country music," Parton said, "and there'll always be a few artists that are still influenced by the old-time Hank Williams type, all the Merle Haggards and all the, you know, the old country and even back farther, but certainly will say Hank Williams and all those wonderful songs he wrote.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor Actor Kevin Cahoon donned a famous Nudie Suit by iconic tailor Nudie Cohn to the Broadway red carpet premiere of “Shucked.“ The decorative rhinestone-covered suits — made famous by Elvis, Hank Williams and Post Malone — were on loan to Cahoon, who plays Peanut in the show, from Nudie’s Rodeo Tailors in Hollywood. The musical is filled with catchy numbers and, as the title suggests, is about corn. It’s set in the fictional Corn Cob County, a small-town Southern haven surrounded by… corn. “‘Shucked’ is a brand new, completely original, rhinestoned, star-spangled, American musical with its roots planted firmly in the country, its heart celebrating all of the Nashville greats that have come before, and I am in it,” Cahoon tells Variety. “What in Cob County do you wear?”

At the start of this year Rolling Stone ran a list of The 200 Greatest Singers of All Time. Like all good list-making, it contained some undeniable truths (Aretha Franklin topped the poll) and some provocative decisions to get the people going. Celine Dion fans, for example, were so outraged by her not making the list in any capacity that they protested outside the publication's offices.

Jeff Bridges and Helen Mirren have been listed as just two of the names who will be reading chapters on the audiobook edition of Bob Dylan‘s forthcoming essay collection.The book, The Philosophy of Modern Song, contains over 60 essays written by Dylan about songs by artists such as Stephen Foster, Elvis Costello, Hank Williams and Nina Simone. It is set for release on November 1.Sissy Spacek, Oscar Isaac and Steve Buscemi will also be reading essays written by Dylan.

Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton on season 22 of is starting to get personal!The married pair duked it out once again during Tuesday's Blind Auditions when 19-year-old Austin Montgomery wowed them with his performance of Hank Williams' «I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love With You),» earning chair turns from Gwen, Blake and first-time coach Camila Cabello.Gwen was blown away by Austin's old-school tone and he assured her that he's an «old soul,» who listens mostly to «everybody that everybody's grandpa would know.» Let's be real… I was the ONLY choice for @AustinMonOffic!!! #TeamBlake#TheVoicepic.twitter.com/8zk0nl1OJqThis opened the door for «Abuelo Blake,» as Camila calls him, to quiz his fellow coaches on their country music knowledge.«Austin, I think it would be very important for you to ask the three of us who sings that song you just performed,» he teased. «At least one of us knows who wrote and sang that song.»«What a jerk,» Gwen fired back.

, which stars Pedro Pascal as a hardened survivor named Joel and his 14-year-old companion, Ellie, played by Bella Ramsey. And boy, does it deliver! Set to an ominous Hank Williams tune, the teaser shows what life is like 20 years after an outbreak destroyed modern civilization, and humans are struggling to survive among the zombie apocalypse.

HBO has released the first trailer for their highly-anticipated TV adaptation of the wildly popular video game The Last Of Us.The video debuted on Monday - September 26 - which, in the world of The Last Of Us video game is known as Outbreak Day, when the cordyceps fungus first started spreading throughout the United States.The video also offered quite the surprise for fans, revealing Melanie Lynskey (Yellowjackets) is part of the series, with the actress herself tweeting the trailer along with, 'Surprise!'  Trailer: HBO has released the first trailer for their highly-anticipated TV adaptation of the wildly popular video game The Last Of Us Tweet: The video also offered quite the surprise for fans, revealing Melanie Lynskey (Yellowjackets) is part of the series, with the actress herself tweeting the trailer along with, 'Surprise!'The trailer begins with Joel (Pedro Pascal) walking through a city, as we see signs warning of cordyceps infections, while others are painting over a red emblem.The trailer - set to Alone and Forsaken by Hank Williams - finds Joel in a building looking at a red painted text - 'When you're lost in the darkness,' as we see a chain attached to his ankle. Ellie (Bella Ramsey) is seen hiding in a tunnel with others while another shot shows a toppled building resting against another.

Jordan Moreau HBO’s highly anticipated “The Last of Us” TV series has released its first official trailer on Monday, giving fans their first look at the adaptation of the popular, post-apocalyptic video game. The show premieres in 2023. Just like the PlayStation video game, “The Last of Us” series follows a hardened survivor named Joel, played by “The Mandalorian” star Pedro Pascal, as he journeys across a United States decimated by a deadly disease called the cordyceps fungus. Along the way, he travels with a young girl named Ellie, played by “Game of Thrones” alum Bella Ramsey, who plays a crucial part is finding a cure for the zombie-like plague that has destroyed society.