Hank: The Short Life and Long Country Road of Hank Williams

Nonfiction, Entertainment, Music, Music Styles, Country, Biography & Memoir, Composers & Musicians
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Author: Mark Ribowsky ISBN: 9781631491580
Publisher: Liveright Publication: November 22, 2016
Imprint: Liveright Language: English
Author: Mark Ribowsky
ISBN: 9781631491580
Publisher: Liveright
Publication: November 22, 2016
Imprint: Liveright
Language: English

"A compassionate yet clear-eyed" (Washington Post) portrait of country music’s founding father and "Hillbilly King."

Mark Ribowsky’s Hank has been hailed as the "greatest biography yet" (Library Journal, starred review) of the beloved icon. Hank Williams, a frail, flawed man who had become country music’s first real star, instantly morphed into its first tragic martyr when he died in the backseat of a Cadillac at the age of twenty-nine. Six decades later, Ribowsky traces the miraculous rise of this music legend?from the dirt roads of rural Alabama to the now-immortal stage of the Grand Ole Opry, and, finally, to a lonely end on New Year’s Day in 1953. Examining Williams’s chart-topping hits while also re-creating days and nights choked in booze and desperation, 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.

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"A compassionate yet clear-eyed" (Washington Post) portrait of country music’s founding father and "Hillbilly King."

Mark Ribowsky’s Hank has been hailed as the "greatest biography yet" (Library Journal, starred review) of the beloved icon. Hank Williams, a frail, flawed man who had become country music’s first real star, instantly morphed into its first tragic martyr when he died in the backseat of a Cadillac at the age of twenty-nine. Six decades later, Ribowsky traces the miraculous rise of this music legend?from the dirt roads of rural Alabama to the now-immortal stage of the Grand Ole Opry, and, finally, to a lonely end on New Year’s Day in 1953. Examining Williams’s chart-topping hits while also re-creating days and nights choked in booze and desperation, 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.

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