HANK WILLIAMS ~

 

R E A D   M E

HANK ALONE and FORSAKEN ~

HONKY TONK ~

"Jukebox", Tootsie's Orchid Lounge, Nashville, Tennessee, 1972

This isn't one of those moments to simply cob photographs from this colossal book straight off the Internet (which I'm doing) — it's to share at just how magnificent a book this is. In fact it might have been naughtier, but it gets darn close to the bone enough, mainly reaching back when the photographer Henry Horenstein, out of New Bedford, MA., and boosted by folksinger Paul Clayton (who owned a music shop then in town) got young Henry's eye to look around with a camera, and what a feast we have. I only wish I could draw up the young photograph of Norman Blake for you, and the recent one of hardscrabble troubadour Spider John Koerner. This book takes you back stage, back road, back down, back up, back back. A keeper.

"Hillbilly Tex," Hillbilly Ranch, Boston, Massachusetts, 1972

"Roscoe Holcomb", Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972

"Fan and Musician", Tootsie's Orchid Lounge, Nashville, Tennessee, 1974

"Lovers," Tootsie's Orchid Lounge, Nashville, Tennessee, 1975

"Patron (2)", Hillbilly Ranch, Boston, Massachusetts, 1972

"Bluegrass Music Fan Frank Brown," Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 1974

"Curly Ray Cline at Home," Rock House, Kentucky, 1974

"Waylon Jennings," Performance Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1976

"Drunk Dancers," Merchant's Cafe, Nashville, Tennessee, 1974

"Country Western Bar and Grill," Highway 41, Nashville, Tennessee, 2008

"Ponderosa," Near Pikeville, Kentucky, 1974

"Tex Ritter", Hillbilly Ranch, Boston, Massachusetts, 1973

"Connie Smith", Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, Tennessee, 1972

"Henry with Mother Maybelle Carter,"

 Lonestar Ranch, Reeds Ferry, New Hampshire, 1973

photo : Lewis Rosenberg

Honky Tonk

portraits of Country Music

by Henry Horenstein

Norton, 2012

TRAINS ~

 

some songs opened, some didn't, ah well, enjoy the ride as far as it goes

 

























































































































































































































1. Back of train (photo : Luis Beltran)
2. Nebraska Morning Train ( photo : Pat Barry)
3. Train Shed (Pat Barry)
4. Daylight and the Joshua Tree (Pat Barry)
5. Climax in Pushing Service (Pat Barry)
6. On the V&T (Pat Barry)
7. Down the Rathole (Pat Barry)
8. Along the Soo Line (Pat Barry)
9. Canadian Pacific Railway, 1960 (David Plowden)
locomotive no. 2412
10. A westbound, steam-powered freight train on the Santa Fe Railway framed by the front window of an early diesel locomotive at Matfield Green, Kansas, circa 1940.
Photograph by John Walker Barriger III. Courtesy of the John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library, St. Louis Mercantile Library, University of Missouri, St. Louis.
11. Santa Fe #19L, leading the Super Chief, smashing through a concrete barrier at Los Angeles Union Station in January, 1948. (photo : unknown)
12. Buster Keaton from The General
13. "Toward Los Angeles, California," 1937 (photo : Dorothea Lange)
14. Neal Cassady (right) in uniform employed with Southern Pacific Railroad
15. (photo : Colin E. Braley)
16. Steam Train (Pat Barry)
17. "Rock Island" (Photo : unknown)
18. Slumper Winter Time (Pat Barry)
19. New York Central bullet train (photo : unknown)






~ Bob Arnold,  American Train Letters
(Coyote Books, 1995)






  (Longhouse, 1984)







(Coyote Books, 1987)

A VERY FINE BOOK ~
{ many more to be showcased }







HANK WILLIAMS : THE COMPLETE LYRICS
edited by Don Cusic (1993)



I'M SO LONESOME I COULD CRY


Hear the lonesome whippoorwill
He sounds too blue to fly
The midnight train is whining low
I'm so lonesome I could cry


I've never seen a night so long
When time goes crawling by
The moon just went behind a cloud
To hide its face and cry


Did you ever see a robin weep
When leaves begin to die?
That means he's lost the will to live
I'm so lonesome I could cry


The silence of a falling star
Lights up a purple sky
And as I wonder where you are
I'm so lonesome I could cry