Help Me Understand (Hank Williams song)

"Help Me Understand" is a song written by Hank Williams and released under the name "Luke the Drifter" on MGM Records in 1950.

"Help Me Understand"
Single by Hank Williams (aka "Luke the Drifter")
A-side"No, No, Joe"
Released1950
RecordedAugust 31, 1950, Castle Studio, Nashville
GenreCountry, Gospel
Length2:54
LabelMGM Records
Songwriter(s)Hank Williams
Producer(s)Fred Rose

Background

Williams' Luke the Drifter recordings were often characterized by bleak recitations and "Help Me Understand" is no exception, addressing the theme of divorce and specifically the effect it has on the children growing up in broken homes. "One word led to another," Hank sings, "and the last word led to divorce," a line that would be all too prescient for the singer, who would be divorced from his wife Audrey Williams in 1951. Audrey actually cut the song for Decca five months before Williams recorded it, and the pair would perform the song as a two-part piece; Hank would narrate while Audrey would sing the little girl's part, what country music historian Colin Escott deems "a rare occasion when her tuneless singing actually worked."[1] Williams cut his version in Nashville on August 31, 1950 with Fred Rose producing. He was backed by Jerry Rivers (fiddle), Don Helms (steel guitar), Sammy Pruett (electric guitar), Jack Shook (rhythm guitar), Ernie Newton or Howard Watts (bass) and Owen Bradley or Fred Rose (organ).[2]

David Allan Coe covered the song on his 1997 LP The Ghost of Hank Williams.

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References
  1. Escott, Colin 2004, p. 149.
  2. Escott, Colin 2004, p. 336.
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