The rest, hopefully, will make history.”īCM’s Baker hopes more collaborations are coming. After a few months of negotiating, our label partners at Sony Music Nashville, knowing the magnitude, stepped in with getting the approvals from their sister company, Sony Music Publishing, the publisher for Hank Williams. on ‘Down For It’ in the past, but for this sacred of a country song - by arguably country music’s biggest icon - we had our fingers crossed for a long time. “Sampling and interpolations in hip hop are the norm, and we were successful in working with, T.I. Willie knew meshing his personal flavor on ‘Hey Good Lookin’’ would be a moment and a personal milestone for him in helping expand the genre,” Forster says. “During one of Willie’s writing camps in Los Angeles, we heard a very simple demo that included that signature Hank Williams sound. It’s crazy, right?”Ĭlearing the “Hey Good Lookin’” sample was a process. And now, we’re sitting feet away from the last place - until now - where those vibes were seen and felt, directly.
So if you’re hearing ‘Your Cheatin’ Heart,’ ‘Hey Good Lookin’,’ any of those songs, there’s an African-American artist at the core of those. “You know, Rufus ‘Tee Tot’ Payne taught Hank the blues. “What you’re doing here today, it’s deeper than the sample,” Netherland said. The team at BCM coordinated a whirlwind one-day experience along Bristol’s Tennessee/Virginia border for Jones that including touring the museum, being interviewed at WXBQ 96.9, visiting global live-streaming station Radio Bristol, and stopping at Burger Bar - the still-operational hamburger restaurant where Williams was seen alive on New Year’s Eve 1952.Īt the Burger Bar, Jones met with local journalist, photographer, and historian Tom Netherland, who explained the significance of Jones’ including Williams’ music. “When artists who are so popular like Willie want to do things like this, it makes the work of the museum, and of everyone in town, worthwhile.” “Over the past few years, whether it’s at Bristol’s Rhythm & Roots Reunion Festival, playing at the Paramount Theater or just their curiosity, a younger generation of artists know their country music history and want it to continue to influence the country music industry,” BCM’s Ross says. Roots artist Amythyst Kiah is from neighboring Johnson City and counts Bristol Rhythm & Roots as one of the first festivals she played as a solo artist in 2010. The movement towards racial equity in country music has a stake in Bristol, too: Dating back to 2005, the groundbreaking Carolina Chocolate Drops had many of their foundational first showcases in town. Singer-songwriter Jim Lauderdale’s name graces the stage at downtown Bristol’s new Sessions Hotel, which hosted acts like Morgan Wade this summer. Hitmakers regularly play the 90-year old Paramount Theater. Therefore when Jones’ manager, The Penthouse’s Jonnie Forster, reached out to Leah Ross and Charlene Baker - respectively, the executive director and communications director of the now seven-year-old and Smithsonian-affiliated Birthplace of Country Music Museum (BCM) - to pull together something for the two-song release, they sprang into action.īeyond the Bristol Sessions and Hank Williams’ legacy, the city has firm roots in all facets, timeless and modern, of country music.
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The country music performance program initially broadcast from Shreveport’s Municipal Memorial Auditorium from 1948 to 1960 and was a familiar stop for Williams after he was fired from the Grand Ole Opry before he died while on tour in Bristol.īristol is also where Victor Talking Machine Company producer Ralph Peer recorded acts, including The Carter Family, in a series of landmark 1927 recording sessions known as The Bristol Sessions, which essentially birthed the genre of country music. Jones, a Shreveport, La., native, became a fan of the legend when he played the revived Louisiana Hayride in 2013. “This time, I added my own flavor - just like my mother’s soul food recipes we’re giving away with the 2-Piece Combo - to something that every country music fan should already know.” “ is the latest example of me trying to expand the genre of country music,” Jones tells Billboard.
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