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    The Drifting Cowboys were the backing group for American country legend and singer-songwriter Hank Williams. The band went through several lineups during...
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    Hank Williams (category Drifting Cowboys members)
    venues such as school houses, movie theaters, and bars. He formed the Drifting Cowboys backup band, which was managed by his mother, and dropped out of school...
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  • copyright.gov. Retrieved September 9, 2021. Hank Williams With His Drifting Cowboys - Jambalaya (On The Bayou), retrieved July 21, 2021 https://www.grammy...
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  • bass player in Hank's band, Drifting Cowboys. Joshua Brady as Sammy Pruett, lead guitarist in Hank's band, Drifting Cowboys. Wes Langlois as Don Helms...
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  • follow on June 22. Williams was backed on the session by members of his Drifting Cowboys band, including Jerry Rivers (fiddle), Don Helms (steel guitar), Sammy...
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  • in Nashville. Williams was backed on the session by members of his Drifting Cowboys band, including Jerry Rivers (fiddle), Don Helms (steel guitar), Chet...
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  • Hillous Butrum (category Drifting Cowboys members)
    and video producer best known as being a member of Hank Williams' Drifting Cowboys. Hillous Butrum was born in Lafayette, Tennessee. Butrum found his...
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  • "I Saw the Light" Single by Hank Williams With His Drifting Cowboys B-side "Six More Miles (To the Graveyard)" Published November 16, 1948 Acuff-Rose Publications...
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  • "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" Single by Hank Williams With His Drifting Cowboys A-side "My Bucket's Got a Hole in It" Published October 31, 1949 Acuff-Rose...
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  • catalog No. 10961. Williams was backed on the session by members of his Drifting Cowboys band, including: Rivers, Helms, Sammy Pruett (electric guitar), Jack...
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  • of albums featuring her own songs, and toured with a version of the Drifting Cowboys to sing her father's songs. Her nephew Hank Williams III is an ardent...
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    Ray Price (singer) (category Drifting Cowboys members)
    with Hank Williams. When Williams died, Price managed his band, the Drifting Cowboys, and had minor success. He was the first artist to have a success with...
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  • March 16, 1951. Williams was backed on the session by members of his Drifting Cowboys band, including: Jerry Rivers (fiddle), Don Helms (steel guitar), Sammy...
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  • William Herbert York (category Drifting Cowboys members)
    The Drifting Cowboys. York was a native of Elmore, Alabama. From 1944 until 1949, he was a member of Hank Williams's backing band The Drifting Cowboys as...
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  • Don Helms (category Drifting Cowboys members)
    guitarist best known as the steel guitar player of Hank Williams's Drifting Cowboys group. He was a member of the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame (1984). Helms...
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  • "Kaw-Liga" Sheet music cover Single by Hank Williams With His Drifting Cowboys B-side "Your Cheatin' Heart" Published December 2, 1952 (1952-12-02) Milene...
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  • Grady Martin (category Drifting Cowboys members)
    Jukebox (Hickory Records, 1977) With Arlo Guthrie Last of the Brooklyn Cowboys (Reprise Records, 1973) With Ronnie Hawkins Rock and Roll Resurrection...
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  • Fred Rose producing. He was backed on the session by members of his Drifting Cowboys band, including Jerry Rivers (fiddle), Don Helms (steel guitar), Sammy...
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  • Joe Pennington (category Drifting Cowboys members)
    lead guitarist for Hank Williams' backing band, the Drifting Cowboys. After leaving the Drifting Cowboys in 1949, Pennington went on to perform with Lefty...
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  • Heart" 1965 reissue single label Single by Hank Williams With His Drifting Cowboys A-side "Kaw-Liga" Published October 31, 1952 (1952-10-31) Acuff-Rose...
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  • "Take These Chains from My Heart" Single by Hank Williams With His Drifting Cowboys A-side "Ramblin' Man" Published October 31, 1952 (1952-10-31) Acuff-Rose...
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  • Jerry Rivers (category Drifting Cowboys members)
    Jerry Rivers was born in Miami, Florida. He played fiddle with the Drifting Cowboys, a band who will be forever associated with their "frontman", the legendary...
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  • "Lost Highway" Song by Hank Williams with His Drifting Cowboys A-side "You're Gonna Change (Or I'm Gonna Leave)" Released September 9, 1949 (1949-09-09)...
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  • "Settin' the Woods on Fire" Single by Hank Williams With His Drifting Cowboys B-side "You Win Again" Published July 29, 1952 (1952-07-29) Milene Music...
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  • "Kaw-Liga" (Single Version) Hank Williams, Fred Rose Hank Williams, Drifting Cowboys 02:33 5. "Noye's Fludde, Op. 59: Noye, Noye, Take Thou Thy Company"...
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  • "Waiting for a Train". In the episode of American Masters about Williams, Drifting Cowboy Don Helms recalls, "When they recorded 'Lovesick Blues,' Fred told...
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  • "You Win Again" Single by Hank Williams With His Drifting Cowboys A-side "Settin' the Woods on Fire" Published September 3, 1952 (1952-09-03) Acuff-Rose...
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  • Never Get Out of This World Alive" Single by Hank Williams With His Drifting Cowboys B-side "I Could Never Be Ashamed of You" Published October 6, 1952 (1952-10-06)...
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  • Hank Williams Sr. and The Drifting Cowboys were Opry members from 1949 to 1952....
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    Roy Rogers (category Singing cowboys)
    short-lived groups, including the International Cowboys and the O-Bar-O Cowboys. When Spencer left the O-Bar-O Cowboys to take a break from music, Len joined Jack...
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