Passing: Don Helms, Put Twang in Hank Williams Songbook (NY Times)
From The New York Times:
By WILLIAM GRIMES
Published: August 16, 2008
Don Helms, whose piercing, forceful steel guitar helped define the sound of nearly all of Hank Williams’s hits, and who performed and recorded with a long list of other country greats, died on August 9 in Nashville.
Mr. Helms played on more than 100 Hank Williams songs and on 10 of his 11 No. 1 country hits. He provided the dirgelike, weeping notes in songs like “I Can’t Help It (If I’m Still in Love With You)” and “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” and added a catchy, propulsive twang to up-tempo numbers like “Jambalaya (On the Bayou)” and “Hey, Good Lookin.’ ”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/arts/music/17helms.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin
By WILLIAM GRIMES
Published: August 16, 2008
Don Helms, whose piercing, forceful steel guitar helped define the sound of nearly all of Hank Williams’s hits, and who performed and recorded with a long list of other country greats, died on August 9 in Nashville.
Mr. Helms played on more than 100 Hank Williams songs and on 10 of his 11 No. 1 country hits. He provided the dirgelike, weeping notes in songs like “I Can’t Help It (If I’m Still in Love With You)” and “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” and added a catchy, propulsive twang to up-tempo numbers like “Jambalaya (On the Bayou)” and “Hey, Good Lookin.’ ”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/arts/music/17helms.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin
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