Barry Mazor nailed part of what makes Snow so enjoyable for me, and the
perceptive comment about Snow being a very "white" singer explains part of
what made his stuff so interesting to me when I discovered him, along about
1971, when I came across a copy of his Travellin' Blues album, a
...part of what made his stuff so interesting to me .. Snow had a lot
of Rodgers to him,...Now, Jimmie Rodgers' blues stuff often has that straight,
non-note-bending "white" side to it around the 3rd (less so around the 7th),
but Snow's almost always has it, and to someone like me, who had
You know, I don't listen to a lot of Hank W. myself because, frankly-in
what can only be considered a pretty high compliment-he just scares the hell
out of me.
Dan Bentele
Hank Thompson ,well.a tiny maybe..but taking Hank SNOW over Hank
Williams is beyond my comprehension... (I'm not sure we rally need to Rank
the Hanks at this late date anyway!)
I start out pretty much agreeing with Joe Gracey on this one...Mr. Snow, to
my ear, has one of the less soulful and
of country music don't excite me none.
Junior Walker
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From: Barry Mazor[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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Subject: Re: Rank the Hank question
Hank Thompson ,well.a tiny
There's an interesting program being shown on our local PBS station about
the contribution of African Americans to American popular culture. It's a
documentary by Spike Lee called "I'll Make Me A World"
(http://www.pbs.org/immaw/ for more).
The doc ain't by Spike Lee but by the guy who did
