TracksRovin' Gambler, Dry Bread, John Henry, Humpty Dumpty Heart, The Wild Side of Life, New Green Light, A New Deal of Love, Where My Sweet Baby Used to Walk, Whoa Sailor, Don't Flirt with Me, Rub-A-Dub-Dub, My Front Door Is Open, This Train, The Grass Looks Greener, Drivin' Nails in My Coffin, Drunkard's Blues, Rockin' in the Congo, Crying in the Deep Blue Sea, Easy to Please [From the Ops Radio Transcriptions] [Version], Square Dab from the Country [From the Ops Radio Transcriptions] [Versio, Be My Life Companion [From the Ops Radio Transcriptions] [Version], Heart Full of Love [From the Ops Radio Transcriptions] [Version], Honky Tonk Girl, Humpty Dumpty Heart, Hank Thompson Talks About His Career at Rodolphe Guiheux' Radio Show in, Hank Thompson Talks About His Career at Rodolphe Guiheux' Radio Show in, Hank Thompson Talks About His Career at Rodolphe Guiheux' Radio Show in, Hank Thompson Talks About His Career at Rodolphe Guiheux' Radio Show in, Hank Thompson Talks About His Career at Rodolphe Guiheux' Radio Show in, Hank Thompson Talks About His Career at Rodolphe Guiheux' Radio Show in, Hank Thompson Talks About His Career at Rodolphe Guiheux' Radio Show in, Hank Thompson Talks About His Career at Rodolphe Guiheux' Radio Show in, Hank Thompson Talks About His Career at Rodolphe Guiheux' Radio Show in
NotesHank Thompson's key to success lies in his songwriting and his band's consistent sound. Thompson's songs often cast an unflinching eye on the drinking and carousing honky-tonk lifestyle, as exemplified by his signature song "The Wild Side of Life" as well as "Honky-Tonk Girl" and "Six-Pack to Go." from the late 1940s through the 1970s he was consistently in the country charts, landing nearly fifty songs in the Top-10 or Top-20. With record sales well over 60 million internationally, Hank Thompson's career has impacted on seven decades (from the '40's into the 21st century) of recorded music history. Hank Thompson died Nov. 6, 2007, following a battle with lung cancer. This double CD set features a fine selection of tracks from the 40's and 50's, including some OPS (Office of Price Stabilzation) radio transcriptions plus a radio show from 2001 in which the King of Western Swing tells the story of his life; the beginnings, his influences and roots, his mates and colleagues...