Hank Williams Helps John Scofield To A Grammy

Amid the headline-dominating achievements at the 2017 Grammy Awards of Adele, David Bowie, Chance The Rapper and others, some may have missed that one of the top jazz guitarists of the age won an award with the inspiration of Hank Williams.
The country trailblazer’s much-covered 1949 standard ‘I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry’ was reinterpreted anew by John Scofield on his current, much-acclaimed album for Impulse!, Country For Old Men. The wittily-titled set features the guitar virtuoso’s readings of many classic country hits, also including ‘Faded Love,’ ‘Mama Tried’ and ‘Jolene.’ Not only did the collection win Best Jazz Instrumental Album at the Grammy Awards — Scofield’s second consecutive win in that division, following 2016’s Past Present — but ‘I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry’ was named Best Improvised Jazz Solo. Thus, in a prolific recording career dating back to the late 1970s, that gives Scofield, now 65 and previously unrecognised by the Recording Academy’s premier award ceremony, three Grammys in two years.
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