Hank Williams -- "Weary Blues from Waitin'"
Hank's voice is ragged in this classic demo, but it's also right. This is the last of the classic Hank Williams songs -- which isn't necessarily to say that it's the best of the demos he recorded shortly before his death -- but of all these demos it does best represent a mastery of the standard idioms of country music without rendering them cliche, and as such it follows in the same vein as "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" and has the same hit potential. Compared with their antecedents, though, the sorrowful notes in "Weary Blues" resonate through an emptier space, sonically and emotionally, and thereby seem to attain more depth. Other demos signaled something of a new direction Hank might have taken had he regained his mental and physical health, but this one is a classic that easily ranks among his best compositions.
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