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Hank : the short life and long country road of Hank Williams / Mark Ribowsky.
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Ribowsky, Mark
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Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/Created
New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2017]
©2017
Description
xxiii, 472 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
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ML420.W55 R53 2017
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Subject(s)
Country musicians
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United States
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Biography
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Williams, Hank 1923-1953
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Biographies
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Summary note
After he died in the backseat of a Cadillac at the age of twenty-nine, Hank Williams, a frail, flawed man who had become country music's most compelling and popular star, instantly morphed into its first tragic martyr. Having hit the heights in the postwar era with simple songs of heartache and star-crossed love, he would, with that outlaw swagger, become in death a template for the rock generation to follow. Presenting the first fully realized biography of Hiram King Williams in a generation, Mark Ribowsky vividly returns us to the world of country music's origins, in this case 1920s Alabama, where Williams was born into the most trying of circumstances, which included a dictatorial mother, a henpecked father, and an agonizing spinal condition. Tracing the singular rise of a music legend from the street corners of the Depression-era South to the now-immortal stage of the Grand Ole Opry, and finally to a haunting, lonely end on New Year's Day 1953, Hank uncovers the real man beneath the myths, reintroducing us to an American original whose legacy, like a good night at the honkytonk, promises to carry on and on.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-450) and index.
Contents
Part one: 1923-1937
King Hiram
An American twang
"Country music ain't nothin' but white people's blues, anyway"
I got a home in Montgomery
Part two: 1938-1948
"Don't tell mama"
Drydock
"Audrey, get me a bottle"
"It ain't a funny song"
Bottle up and go
From a mean bottle
Part three: 1948-1950
"Syrup sopper" or "populist poet"
"The sorriest thing I ever did hear"
"Never put me on after Hank Williams!"
Pettin' parties, cigarettes, and gin
"It's never too country"
A brand-new recipe
Part four: 1950-1953
"Don't he kill an audience?"
"The gun shot four times"
"Almost a continuous nightmare"
Hurting from inside
So far gone
"I see Jesus comin' down the road"
"Don't worry about ol' Hank"
Then came that fateful day.
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The short life and long country road of Hank Williams
ISBN
9781631491573 ((hardcover))
1631491571
LCCN
2016026928
OCLC
937452748
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