
Bob Dylan has acquired the unfinished songs that were in Hank Williams briefcase when he died and has enlisted some friends to finish and record the songs for a project.
Jack White recorded at Blackbird Studios in Nashville along with engineer Joe Chiccarelli, Dominic Suchyta on upright bass, Carla Azar (Autolux) on drums, Donny Herron (Bob Dylan, BR549) on 8-string guitar and Dean Fertita (Raconteurs, Waxwings) on acoustic guitar. “We did the session in one long day,” Suchyta says of the secret taping, “live in a circle with some mics around—much like Hank would have.”
They recorded an unfinished Williams song called “You Know That I Know.” “No one has heard it as it was a Hank Williams lyric sheet that Jack put to music and edited a bit,” says Suchyta. “Jack was sent most of or all of the unfinished tunes and picked this one to finish. We listened to quite a bit of Hank while I was down there and sat around the two of us playing our favorite Hank tunes, but the song was done when I got there. I think Jack just ingested a bunch of Hank Williams and this is what came out of him.”
The entire participant list is still under wraps as is the project.
Labels: bob dylan, carla azar, dean fertita, dominic suchyta, donny herron, hank williams, jack white