{"id":4935,"date":"2024-03-02T09:15:59","date_gmt":"2024-03-02T14:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=4935"},"modified":"2024-03-02T09:21:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T14:21:45","slug":"you-win-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/you-win-again\/","title":{"rendered":"You Win Again (Hank Williams&#8217;s blues)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"You Win Again (Hank&#039;s blues)\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5yuVikBKuBI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It seems crazy that I&#8217;ve got over three hundred songs in this project, and this is the first Hank Williams song I&#8217;ve posted. (I did &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/lovesick-blues\/\">Lovesick Blues<\/a>&#8221; a while ago, and of course heard it first from him, but he didn&#8217;t write it.)<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4937 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Hank-Williams-e1706039670576.jpg?resize=233%2C268&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"268\" \/>I know a bunch of them &#8212; Peter Keane and I once traded Hank Williams songs at a party for well over an hour. (The other partygoers were at first impressed that we knew so many, then drifted away as they realized quite how many.) 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