Blues In Advance
Please Help Me, I'm Falling
Hank Locklin
Produced by Chet Atkins
Recorded in Nashville, Tennessee
RCA Victor LSP-229(e)
1962
From the back cover: Lawrence Hankins Locklin, better knwon as Hank, was born in McCullian, Florida. Both his parents were musically gifted, through neither played or sang professionally. Hearing them inspired Hank from his earliest days; as a matter of fact, Hank wanted to make recordings long before he could even operate a phonograph.
By the time he was ten, Hank was picking guitar for amateur contests and before long he was a featured performer at station WCOA in Pensacola. During those early years, Hank supplemented his budding career by working at various jobs in his home state, hiring on a shipyards and farms.
Hank's big break came when he was 20. His enormously successful appearance at the Community House in Whistler, Alabama, was followed by an impressive string of tours, broadcasts and personal appearances throughout the South. In 1955, he winged with RCA Victor and began a recording career linked with hits – the most recent being, of course, "Please Help Me, I'm Falling."
Such spare time as Hank has these days is devoted to his hobbies – woodworking and record collecting. The Locklins have three children: Margaret, Beth and Maurice. Hank's home musical activities often involve more than a little songwriting. His favorite types of music, often to compose and perform, are humans and such heart-felt ballads as you will hear in this album.
Please Help Me, I'm Falling
My Old Home Town
(I'm So Tired Of) Goin' Home All By Myself
It's A Little More Like Heaven
Livin' Alone
Seven Days
Send Me The Pillow You Dream On
Blues In Advance
Why Don't You Haul Off And Love Me
When The Band Plays The Blues
Hiding My Heart
Foreign Care
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