Real Thing

Performer: Hank Thompson
Artist: Vince Gill; Brooks & Dunn; Lyle Lovett; George Jones; Tanya Tucker; Marty Stuart; Junior Brown; Kitty Wells
Producer: Bill Millet
Distributor: WEA (Distributor)

Notes: Personnel includes: Hank Thompson, Vince Gill, Tanya Tucker, Bekka Bramlett, Kitty Wells, George Jones, Lyle Lovett, Bonnie Sheridan (vocals); David Ball (vocals, acoustic guitar); Junior Brown (vocals, steel guitar); Delany Bramlett (vocals, dobro); Marty Stuart (vocals, electric mandolin); Robert Bowlin (acoustic guitar, fiddle); Gerald Jones, Tanya Rae Brown (acoustic guitar); Reggie Young (electric guitar); Randy Kohrs (lap steel guitar, dobro, hand claps); Bobby Garrett (steel guitar); Buddy Spicher (fiddle, viola); Jeff Gurnsey (fiddle); Hargus "Pig" Robbins, Mark T. Jordan (piano); David Briggs (Hammond B-3 organ); David Spicher, Steve Layne (acoustic bass); Billy Thomas (drums, background vocals); Eddie Bayers (drums). Engineers: Chuck Ainlay, Rick Will, Randy Merriman, Kim Carmel. Recorded at Sound Emporium, Curb Studio and Dream Street Studio, Nashville, Tennessee; Delaney's Rock 'N' Roll Ranch, Los Angeles, California between September 1996 and June 1997. Includes liner notes by Bill Millet and Hank Thompson. All tracks have been digitally mastered using HDCD technology.

It is hard to overstate the impact that Hank Thompson has had on country music. In the 1940s and '50s, with his famous backing band, the Brazos Valley Boys, Thompson perfected his style of Honkytonk Swing, a chart-topping recipe that fused the poly-instrumental richness of Western Swing with the prominent vocal/snare tandem of Honkytonk. Standing tall in glittering Nudie suits, Thompson always emphasized showmanship, but his resonant baritone was always the star of the show, launching chart hits--including "The Wild Side of Life" and "A Six Pack To Go,"--in an unprecedented six consecutive decades. Thompson also stretched boundaries as a businessman with a pioneering TV show and country's first Las Vegas show and first solo live release.

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