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David Browder quotes from a keynote speech Bruce Springsteen made at the SXSW shindig in Austin in which he gives his reflections on the great Hank Williams and the music of his tradition:<\/p>\n

I remember sitting in my little apartment, listening to Hank Williams Greatest Hits over and over. And I was trying to crack his code because at first it just didn\u2019t sound good to me. It just sounded cranky and old-fashioned\u2026with that hard country voice. With that austere instrumentation. But slowly, slowly my ears became accustomed to its beautiful simplicity and its darkness and depth. And Hank Williams went from archival to alive for me before my, before my very eyes. And I lived, I lived on that for awhile in the late \u201970s.<\/p>\n

One thing it rarely was\u2026it was rarely politically angry, it was rarely politically critical. And I realized that fatalism had a toxic element. If rock \u2018n roll was a seven-day weekend, country was Saturday night hell-raising, followed by heavy Sunday coming down. Guilt, guilt, guilt. I [fracked] up, oh my God. But, as the song says, would you take another chance on me? That was country. Country seemed not to question why, it seemed like it was about doing then dying, screwing then crying, boozing then trying. And as Jerry Lee Lewis, the living, breathing personification of both rock and country, said, \u201cI\u2019ve fallen to the bottom and I\u2019m working my way down.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

via Who Put That Hole in My Bucket? The Difference Between Bruce Springsteen and Hank Williams | Mockingbird<\/a>.\n

Yes!\u00a0 Exactly!\u00a0 Bruce didn\u2019t quite understand it, but Browder does, going on to name what it is about Hank Williams that is so compelling:\u00a0 The backdrop of Christianity and the agonizing struggle between sin and grace.<\/p>\n

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