Lost Highway

[kentuck]

[The Magistrate]

1. Excellent, Sir!

Love this one....

[The Magistrate]

2. Here's One A Little More Obscure, Sir

That I enjoy hearing now and again.

[kentuck]

3. Thank you, Sir!

I have never heard that song by Hank!

(I have had my old guitar out for the last day or two and have been pickin' out a few Hank songs )

[The Magistrate]

4. Some Years Ago, Sir

My son had business in Tennessee, and on a rack in a small town filling station was a two disc set of the complete Hank Williams. He knew I liked the man, and said when he bought it, there were some odd looks and smiles turned towards that yankee boy from the city....

I cannot remember when I first heard Hank Williams, it may even have been as a tyke in Indiana over the radio. But I gave always liked him. there is something very special in that voice and the lyrics it sings over a crisply restrained guitar.

[kentuck]

5. Indeed there is, Sir.

There was a soulful honesty about Hank that few, if any, have captured. (As a youngster, I recall listening to a radio station out of Fort Wayne, IN)

[The Magistrate]

6. My Sojourn In Hoosierdom, Sir

Was in Indianapolis, or Indianoplace as we took to calling when a bit older. To get rock and roll, you had to place the transistor by a north or west faced window, and carefully fiddle with the tuner to catch WLS out of Chicago.

[kentuck]

7. I was in the mountains of KY and picked up WLS as a teenager...

Do teenagers still park and listen to the radio? Sir, those were the days.

[The Magistrate]

8. Going By My Grandsons, Sir, I Would Say No

But if there are not things they do I know nothing about, I would be disappointed in them. That old 50,000 watt station seems to a have a beacon to the region, I had no idea it penetrated so far as Kentucky. On the off-chance people are giving our music here a trial, here is one of Hank Williams' greatest standards....

[kentuck]

9. Here is another gem that is not so well-known, Sir

[The Magistrate]

10. Such A Sweet, Sad Song, Sir

That such tunes were popular and numerous drives home how much more closely people lived with untimely death in those days, especially in the rural stretches, and in the slums. That is something we are getting a sort of course in today. As if we had been moved back into the past by a century or so....

[kentuck]

11. Very true, Sir.