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My talking hank soundtrack1/2/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() And I think that that can really influence the format.” He’s definitely walking that line of on the outside here. He doesn’t sit in the center of anything. ![]() There’s a lot of sameness in what country music is currently representing. So I just think he can do anything he wants, and the format is really in need of something like that right now. Not even knowing everything that the kid has experienced, you just feel like you you’ve been through it with him by the time that you listen to these records. “He’s really unique in that, number one, he’s just a real vocalist, which is not so super common in our format, as a male.He’s so powerful, but yet he’s one of the most vulnerable lyricists that I’ve ever heard, and this kid makes you feel every word that comes out of his mouth. “You don’t have that kind of talent and you can’t be in touch with the things and as connected to what he’s connected to as he is and run away from it. “I think that he could have tried to avoid it his whole life and it still would have been right there,” Maybe says. Perhaps ironically, he has said that he resisted the family business initially and, as a father at 19, enrolled in college as a business major before determining this would be his path as well. He is the youngest of several Williams family children/grandchildren to take to music, after Hank III, Holly Williams and Hilary Williams. Much of the story will inevitably focus on how Williams fulfills a (to borrow dad’s phrase) family tradition. And as a writer, and just in the way that the guy emotes, he really does not have a fence around him.” I mean, he can go any direction he wants to. I think that he is firmly entrenched in country, but also he has a pop reach. There’s a big stirring around the format anyway, and I feel like he’s coming in at the perfect time, especially as a 24-year-old man that has a lot to say - a lot of story, a lot of life that he’s lived, well beyond his years. What’s fringe is not so stale,” Mabe says.” I think this kid has the potential of being as commercial as a lot of things, but always being on that fringe. “The format’s gotten pretty stale, in what you hear from them from the most commercial parts of it. ![]() Genre-wise, the company expects Williams to touch a lot of different bases, with the mainstream country format very much being one of them. Management), Sam Williams, Cindy Mabe (President, UMG Nashville), Mike Dungan (Chairman & CEO, UMG Nashville) Katie Kauss (L-R): Missi Gallimore (Owner & CEO, T.R.U.T.H. ![]()
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