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As mentioned last month on the web site, the recent Ken Burns doc on country music pretty much blew my mind. I may not have been actively anti-country but I was never a fan, just generally ignoring the whole genre. Sixteen hours of spellbinding television later, I have, to paraphrase Hank Williams, seen the light. Not because I now love everything I used to not care for, but because I now know the genre's origin story, bringing a huge area of music into my range of knowledge and interest. It feels inspiring. Anyway, yes, here's a Hank Williams song, in and among the more usual (but still unusual) array of genres and decades. As maybe a tie-in to what I've generally done here, I didn't select a Hank tune from the documentary, but one that I had first heard via Elvis Costello: "Why Don't You Love Me," slightly re-named, was the lead track on his out-of-left-field, widely misunderstood record of country music covers back in 1981. For more info: http://fingertipsmusic.com/?p=20233
