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Author
Pub. Date
2005
Description
A sickly and awkward boy who turned into a country music legend, Hiram Williams had reinvented himself as Hank Williams and taken to alcohol by the age of 14. He was dead by the age of 29. Here, Paul Hemphill recounts the tortured life and whirlwind career of the hillbilly Shakespeare as only a fellow Southerner can.
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2001
Description
He was twenty-nine years old and had recorded just eighty sessions when he died on New Year's Day 1953. Yet those songs -- "Hey Good Lookin'," "Your Cheatin' Heart," "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" -- made Hank Williams the most influential country musician ever. He is the essential pre-Elvis performer, molding American music into a new art form, and creating descendants that range from Garth Brooks to Beck. But for all that his music reveals, we know...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
The story of the legendary country western singer Hank Williams, who in his brief life created one of the greatest bodies of work in American music. The film chronicles his meteoric rise to fame and its ultimately tragic effect on his health and personal life.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Based on the controversial life story of singer-songwriter, Hank Williams, this film tells the powerful tale of country musicb2ss original bad boy. The man, the myth and the music come together when Williams travels from Alabama to a series of New Years shows in West Virginia and Ohio. This remarkable journey leads straight to the heart and soul of the legendary performer as he takes one last shot at redemption.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In Rippling Creek, Louisiana, in 1948, eleven-year-old Tate writes letters to her favorite country singer, sharing her dreams of becoming a singer and revealing that her mother is in prison.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Description
While traveling to Ohio on New Year's Eve, Williams dreams about the concert he'd like to give in a country bar like the ones he's passing. Instead, he dies in the back seat of his car that night. Twenty songs are performed in the show he never gave.
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