Billed as “the King of Western Swing,” Hank Thompson was a country musician with an exuberant repertoire and a touring career that stretched into a seventh decade. Having announced only last month ...

The Pawhuska Western Swing Festival honors country music legend Hank Thompson's 100th birthday with performances by local and ...

February releases also include Hank Thompson (on 160-gram vinyl), McGough & McGear (from U.K. band Scaffold), funkster Eddie Hazel and Red Bird Records girl groups. LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Rick Nelson's ...

In the early 1950s, country star Hank Thompson went into his then-state-of-the-art home studio in Oklahoma City and made a series of recordings for radio. Almost a half-decade later, Thompson went ...

If you’re a fan of Willie Nelson, George Strait or Charley Crockett, cue up “The Wild Side of Life” on Sept. 3 to mark the 100th birthday of a fellow Texan who inspired them: Honky-tonk swing pioneer ...

Hank and I both had visions for his career and we implemented a five year plan. Hank was a man for all seasons and genres, a top country music recording artist with a great western swing band. Most of ...

Hank Thompson, 82, a singer, guitarist and songwriter who became a prolific western swing hitmaker with upbeat music about beer drinking and broken hearts, died Nov. 6 at his home in Keller, Tex., ...

On this day (September 3) in 1925, Henry William Thompson was born in Waco, Texas. After serving in World War II with the United States Navy and studying at Princeton University, he decided to pursue ...