Cold Cold Heart

Beginning with the sparkling steel guitar work of Don Helm, the rest of Williams' backing band, the Drifting Cowboys, enter: They provide a sturdy, swinging rhythm, Rivers and Helm trading mournful licks to accompany Williams' wails at the ends of the verses "the more we drift apaaaaaaart".

A young-sounding Tony Bennett croons over light orchestration on his recording, making "Cold, Cold Heart" sound like an old Neapolitan or Sicilian ballad that was translated into colloquial English available on various compilations. That a young Italian singing waiter from Queens could find common ground with a country singer from Alabama's backwoods is testament both to Williams' skills as a writer and to Bennett's imagination and artist's ear. Soon, all sorts of recording artists were recording the song.

Starting with the obvious, Jerry Lee Lewis teamed up with Elvis Presley for a disappointing ham-fest, which is ultimately unrewarding available on various compilations. Other country legends, like Johnny Cash, Ray Price, and George Jones, have only added their own slants to the song, without uncovering anything new. More interesting are Bennett's revision and an interpretation by the Mills Brothers, which actually embraces the country elements of the song while adding their own sophisticated and smooth harmonizing.

Her take, like the other more interesting versions, demonstrates the possibilities of the song as a standard that, in the right hands, can sound natural in a variety of musical styles. AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully. Jazz Latin New Age.

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Jambalaya On the Bayou. Find out more about page archiving. Search For A Songwriter. Of the hundreds of Hank Williams songs that went on to influence everyone from Bob Dylan to Kurt Cobain, "Cold Cold Heart" is probably the one that best encapsulates his genius. Listen to Merle Kilgore. A year earlier he had met Fred Rose, co-partner in the hillybilly publishing firm Acuff-Rose which was to become one of the giants in Country Music.

Rose was impressed by Hank as a writer and soon began to put all his efforts into his career. It was a legendary partnership Listen to Roy Acuff. But Miller insisted, and the song became a No.

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Listen to Tony Bennett. Formally structured, with each line posing a musical question that is answered by the following phrase. The melody seems to be essentially Austrian folk song, more lederhosen than leather riding chaps, if you strip away the prairie delivery - there's the octave leap to the first note of line two, and the chromatic figures on lines such as "thing I do" and "doubtful mind". Franz Lehar would have been proud.

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