Don Helms - the steel guitar player of Hank Williams 🤠 Honky Tonk Town 🍻 🎻 Where the Country is Found 🪕 More at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClQ06HYCRmXjdaP8hv5sxxg?sub_confirmation=1 | Honkytonktown

3.2K reactions · 419 shares | Released in 1979, Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound is Hank Williams Jr.’s tale of a man who finds comfort in whiskey and old country songs when love falls apart. With steel guitar crying behind his rough-edged vocals, it became one of his signature outlaw ballads—equal parts heartbreak and honky-tonk confession. #country | HonkyTonkin'TV | Facebook

Saluting Steel player Don Helms on his birthday. He was born February 28, 1927 in New Brockton, Alabama. He was a member of Hank Williams' original Drifting Cowboys. After Williams's death, Helms went on to play on many classic country hits, including Patsy Cline's "Walkin' After Midnight," Stonewall Jackson's "Waterloo," the Louvin Brothers' "Cash on the Barrelhead," Lefty Frizzell's "Long Black Veil" and Loretta Lynn's "Blue Kentucky Girl." Later, Don became a band member on the Wilburn Brothe

Today would have been Charley Pride's 88th birthday. Over his career, Charley had 29 number one hits and over 50 top tens! In this clip, he and Hank Williams Sr's steel guitar player, Don Helms, perform Your Cheatin' Heart. | Country Road TV