Weary Blues (From Waitin')

Zoomer Roberts: vocal
Buddy Winston: guitar

"Weary Blues (From Waitin')" may not be one of Hank Williams' better-known songs, but it's one of my favorites. In the last year of Hank's life, he befriended the up-and-coming Ray Price, who recorded this song with Hank's band. After Hank's death in 1953, that same band set to work overdubbing instrumental accompaniment onto his simple voice-and-guitar demos in an attempt to create a commercially viable "product." The first of these to be issued was "Weary Blues" b/w "I Can't Escape From You."

"Folk Fury," hosted on alternate Saturdays on KTEP by Gregg Carthy and Dan Alloway, has a long-standing tradition of paying tribute to the work of deceased performers by bringing in local folk musicians to perform their songs. Buddy and I usually work up "new" material for such occasions, and this is the only instance of me performing "Weary Blues" publicly. It's from a 2003 broadcast commemorating the 50th anniversary of Hank's passing.