I'd Still Want You Explained

I'd Still Want You
Published: Acuff-Rose Publications[1]
Type:single
Artist:Hank Williams With His Drifting Cowboys
A-Side:Baby, We're Really in Love
Released:November 1951
Recorded:July 25, 1951[2]
Studio:Castle Studio, Nashville
Genre:Country, honky-tonk, blues
Label:MGM
Producer:Fred Rose
Prev Title:(I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle'
Prev Year:1951
Next Title:Honky Tonk Blues
Next Year:1952

"I'd Still Want You" is a song written and recorded by Hank Williams and released on MGM Records. It was selected to be the B-side to the up-tempo "Baby, We're Really in Love." Williams biographer Colin Escott calls it "another bleak commentary on Hank's continuing need for Audrey [Williams, his wife] as she closed off her heart to him."[3] It was recorded at Castle Studio in Nashville on July 25, 1951 with Fred Rose producing and backing from Don Helms (steel guitar), Jerry Rivers (fiddle), Sammy Pruett (lead guitar), Howard Watts (bass) and probably Jack Shook (rhythm guitar).[4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: U.S. Copyright Office Virtual Card Catalog 1946-1954. 2021-09-09. vcc.copyright.gov.
  2. Web site: Hank Williams Sessions. 2021-10-21. jazzdiscography.com.
  3. Book: Escott, Colin . Colin Escott. Hank Williams: The Biography . Back Bay . 2004 . 0-316-73497-7 . 178.
  4. Book: Escott, Colin . Hank Williams: The Biography . Back Bay . 2004 . 0-316-73497-7 . 345.