Hank Thompson, 82, a singer, guitarist and songwriter who became a prolific western swing hitmaker with upbeat music about beer drinking and broken hearts, died Nov. 6 at his home in Keller, Tex ...

Hank Thompson, 82, a singer, guitarist and songwriter who became a prolific western swing hitmaker with upbeat music about beer drinking and broken hearts, died Tuesday at his home in Keller ...

DALLAS – Hank Thompson has died of lung cancer just days after canceling his tour. The country singer was 82. Thompson died late Tuesday at his home in the Fort Worth suburb of Keller, said ...

Thirteen years ago today, on Nov. 6, 2007, Hank Thompson died after a short battle with lung cancer. The singer was 82 years old. Thompson was born in Waco, Texas, on Sept. 3, 1925, and showed an ...

Hank Thompson's given name assured he'd never get the notoriety he deserved. Like Hank Snow, he was another honky-tonking Hank not named Williams. But Thompson was one of the genre's great singers ...

Billed as “the King of Western Swing,” Hank Thompson was a country musician with an exuberant repertoire and a touring career that stretched into a seventh decade. Having announced only last month ...

DALLAS — Hank Thompson has died of lung cancer just days after canceling his tour. The country singer was 82. Mr. Thompson died late Tuesday at his home in the Fort Worth suburb of Keller, said ...

Honky-tonk baritone Hank Thompson, the “King of Western Swing” who churned out a string of top 10 country hits during a decades-long career, has died at 82, his family said Wednesday.Thompson ...

I saw Hank's show with fiddler Johnny Gimble at the Bosque River Stage last May . He played while sitting in a chair and stumbled a little with words on the first song or two. Then his inveterate ...

In the early 1950s, country star Hank Thompson went into his then-state-of-the-art home studio in Oklahoma City and made a series of recordings for radio. Almost a half-decade later, Thompson went ...

Hank Thompson, who began his career with the St. Louis Browns in 1947, was the third man to break the color barrier in Major League Baseball after Robinson and Larry Doby. Get the FanSided App ...