Sold on Hank

ID: 2285 ~ Source: Hurd, Cornell, interviewed by Jean Boyd, July 16, 2003, in Austin, Texas, Baylor Institute for Oral History. View Full Interview
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Western swing musician Cornell Hurd describes the moment he became a Hank Thompson fan when he was working at a radio station as a college kid in 1969.

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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…