Word: cheatin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...presence on the bill highlighted his own drift into rock, in abundant evidence on the Strong Persuader album, where the blues give no quarter but are suddenly danceable. "Lyrically," as Cray hears it, "the songs are blues stories in the sense that they relate with lost love, sneakin' around, cheatin' and things like that, but the music isn't traditional blues music. We're stepping out into new territories. Smoking Gun almost sounds like a rock-'n'-roll song." On the album's opening cut, hard-edged guitar and lyrical economy set up another variation on jealousy and revenge: "Maybe...
Disintegration in the celebrity spotlight is the theme of a modest, moving piece, Hank Williams: The Show He Never Gave. Williams, the country singer responsible for such hits as Your Cheatin' Heart, Jambalaya, Half as Much and Hey, Good Lookin', was a prototype of the doomed, dark star: drink and drugs sent him on an inevitable trajectory to death at 29 in 1953. Maynard Collins' play is conceived as Williams' last concert, in which he performs 22 of his songs while telling his version of an entertainer's life and self-inflicted hard times...
Chet Flippo, 37, after the publication party for Your Cheatin' Heart, his biography of Country Singer Hank Williams: "I'd like to thank Hank for making this party possible and the IRS for making it necessary...