Young Hank

ID: 2213 ~ Source: Handbook of Texas Online, Shaun Stalzer, "THOMPSON, HENRY WILLIAM [HANK]," accessed November 07, 2018, http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fth80.
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Young Hank

At one point in his career, Hank Thompson played with the Light Crust Doughboys, a western swing group whose membership fluctuated a great deal after World War II under leader Smokey Montgomery.

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By Anabel Burke
“The King of Western Swing,” the “living root of country music.” Henry William “Hank” Thompson became a western swing and country music star right from his hometown of Waco. Hank was born in Waco on September 3, 1925 to German-Czech immigrant…