介绍:
源：itunes播客，Americana Music Show Podcast，ep292
Tom 和老师Rodney Crowell的采访，太好听～～～
中间穿插的歌大部分来自电影原声带。另有几首采访现场唱的，啊啊啊I'm so lonesome I could cry好动人。
但是long gone lonesome blues唱得太难听了……why don't you love me也简直没法听啊
其中还播了多段电影音频片段，包括汉克要求第二任妻子的男友把姑娘让给他那段哈哈，那是原著里的原词，看书的时候就笑死了。
Tom（再次）讲了他寻觅Hank的过程，对hank的理解，怎么样请老师训练自己唱歌，学会blues把节拍向后坐而不是正好踏在节拍上的节奏处理，对自己天生的baritone（男中音）进行训练，以便能接近汉克天生的tenor（男高音）。怎样理解汉克的性格和心境，体会他的情感，他和妻子及其他人的关系……
老师Rodney Crowell虽然说得不多但精彩极了，一处讲学习像汉克那样唱歌的过程，相信每个人听了都会有同感吧。
另外老师讲到汉克的snake个性在Tom身上显现那次，真是太精彩了，求仔细听！（老师口音跪
歌单：
1. Honky Tonkin
2. long gone lonesome blues（现场，难听指数5）
3. Why don't you love me（现场，难听指数4）
4. My bucket's got a hole in it
5. 别人
6. 别人
7. Move it on over
8. Hey good lookin'
9. you win again（现场，老师合唱的意义就是Tom跑调时把他拽回来。。）
10. I'm so lonesome I could cry（现场，QAQ）
11. Jambalaya
12. Why don't you love me
13. Honky Tonkin
14. 别人
【别人都唱得好好听。。。
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以及，昨天看到一篇老师的采访，，老师是亲妈啊！
and其中有一句信息量。。不但Tom住在老师家里，老师家里成了这电影的“中转站”，方言教练、选角导演以及合作演员如奥妹。。都住在他的房子里。。so奥妹和抖抖都住在老师家里～～～
以下：
Rodney Crowell Helps Bring Hank Williams to Life in “I Saw the Light”
Rodney Crowell credits Hank Williams with having a profound influence on his career, and it all started 18 days before Hank died on New Year’s Day in 1953.
“My father and I were big Hank Williams Sr. fans—he actually took me to see him when I was 2 years, 4 months old,” says Rodney, now 65. “Hank did a show in Houston on Dec. 14, 1952, right before he died, and my dad told me about that night over and over again until it became my own memory.”
Due to Rodney’s extensive knowledge of both Hank’s life and his body of work—not to mention his own reputation as one of the most celebrated modern-day country singer/songwriters—the two-time Grammy winner was tapped to serve as executive music producer of I Saw the Light, the biopic based on Hank’s life that hits theaters in limited release, Friday (March 25).
A large part of the gig consisted of transforming Tom Hiddleston—an actor best known in the United States for his roles in The Avengers and Thor franchises—from poised English stage actor into the gruff, troubled and often unpredictable icon. For five weeks, Tom lived in the upstairs suite of Rodney’s Nashville-area home, during which the 35-year-old Brit only went into town twice.
“He dedicated himself to the role to the point that he had no social life at all,” Rodney says. “We spent 16 hours a day playing music, talking, conceiving what needed to be done. And what needed to be done was an actor classically trained to amplify his baritone voice to the back of a West End theater in London adopting these high, reedy tenor sounds like Williams’. To Tom’s credit, and to mine, we went about deconstructing a method of making sounds in order that he could yodel. We worked really hard.”
Rodney’s bucolic estate, in fact, became “the staging area” for the film, with dialect coaches, casting directors and Tom’s co-stars like Elizabeth Olsen inhabiting various parts of his home. To attain the authentic sound of Hank’s 1947–1952 output, Rodney sought the help of fellow musicians like Chris Scruggs, whom he calls “a walking illustration of late-’40s and early-’50s country music,” and Ray Kennedy, a Nashville-based recording engineer and producer well-versed in old-school music-making techniques.
During their five weeks together, Rodney and Tom followed a meticulous routine. Each day began with a revered British tradition that was very different from the life Tom depicted on the big screen.
“We made porridge, English-style, for breakfast,” Rodney says with a laugh. “We had porridge, porridge, porridge for breakfast. Then, Tom would take off and run 10 miles around these hills because he was trying to lose weight to be skinny like Hank Williams.”
After the morning cardio, Tom and Rodney would work on music skills for several hours before the actor took a break or worked with a dialect coach. The duo ate energy bars in the afternoon, and Rodney’s wife, Claudia Church, would cook dinner for them.
“We generally worked well into the evening, and when I was finished with Tom, he’d go upstairs and work on his character,” Rodney says. “He would work 18-hour days.”
photo by Sam Emerson/Sony Pictures Classics
Some of what needed to be done came naturally to the actor. “Tom is a mimic,” says his coach. “He would keep us laughing, mimicking Anthony Hopkins and Richard Burton and Michael Caine.” But his most impressive imitation may very well be his portrayal of Hank Williams. (Rodney even referred to Tom as “Hank” by accident more than once in the interview.)
“One night, I went upstairs to knock on Tom’s door, and the door opened and it was Hank Williams,” Crowell says, still trying to process his shock. “He was becoming that character that he would portray.”
After the concluding the training in Tennessee, Rodney headed to the set in Shreveport, La., where the entire movie was shot, taking on what he calls “an advisory role” helping Tom with his chord changes and reminding him to fully embody the character he portrayed.
“Tom is an affable guy,” Rodney says. “He’s a sweetheart and an open, good-hearted, hardworking, talented young man. But Hank Williams is dark—a snake. So as a reference point in making the music, I’d say, ‘Hey man, I don’t see the snake. Where’s the snake?’ Tom’s not a natural snake, but he is a skilled actor.”
Though some of Hank’s family was consulted for the project—or at the very least, kept apprised of it—the film chronicles the musician’s later years, riddled with alcohol abuse, prescription drugs and allegations of infidelity, and grandson Hank Williams III—who was concerned the project would sensationalize the truth—wanted nothing to do with it.
Rodney, whose former father-in-law and musical collaborator Johnny Cash was the subject of a biographical film that sometimes took liberties with his story—2005’s Walk the Line—says he understands the predicament. “It’s hard to make a movie that can compare with your firsthand experience and memory,” he says, “especially the life of somebody you vividly interacted with.” But he hopes the Williams family knows the level of passion that fueled this project.
“I wish Hank III knew how hard Tom worked to bring integrity to that,” Rodney says. “If I ever run into him, I’ll say, ‘Whatever your opinion may be, you can’t discount the amount of work that man put into portraying Hank Williams.’”
