Hank Williams ~ Similar Artists

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Hank Williams III - 100% match to Hank Williams

George Jones - 71% match to Hank Williams

George Glenn Jones, 12 September 1931, Saratoga, Texas, USA. Jones is the greatest of honky tonk singers but he has also been a victim of its lifestyle. He learned guitar in his youth, and in 1947, was hired by the husband-and-wife duo Eddie And Pearl. This developed into his... Read more

Woody Guthrie - 71% match to Hank Williams

Woodrow Wilson Guthrie, 14 July 1912, Okemah, Oklahoma, USA, d. 3 October 1967, New York City, New York, USA. A major figure of America's folk heritage, Guthrie was raised in a musical environment and achieved proficiency on harmonica as a child. Though his family was relatively... Read more

Merle Haggard - 70% match to Hank Williams

6 April 1937, Bakersfield, California, USA. "Like a razor's edge, Merle Haggard sings" is how John Stewart described his voice in "Eighteen Wheels", and that razor has been honed by his rough and rowdy ways. In the 30s Haggard's parents migrated from the Dustbowl to "the land of... Read more

Townes Van Zandt - 59% match to Hank Williams

John Townes Van Zandt, 7 March 1944, Fort Worth, Texas, USA, d. 1 January 1997, Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, USA. A country and folk blues singer and guitarist, Van Zandt was a native Texan and great-grandson of one of the original settlers who founded Fort Worth in the mid-nineteenth... Read more

Loretta Lynn - 57% match to Hank Williams

Loretta Webb, 14 April 1935, Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, USA. Lynn is a coalminer's daughter, being the second of the eight children of Ted and Clara Webb. She is one-quarter Cherokee and her name came from her mother's fondness for movie star Loretta Young. She was raised in a... Read more

Kris Kristofferson - 55% match to Hank Williams

Kristoffer Kristofferson, 22 June 1936, Brownsville, Texas, USA. Kristofferson, a key figure in the "New Nashville" country movement of the early 70s, began his singing career in Europe. Previously a Golden Gloves boxer and a Creative Literature student at Ponoma College in... Read more

The Carter Family - 54% match to Hank Williams

The Carter Family have become known as country music's first family and are responsible for several songs such as "Wildwood Flower" and "Keep On The Sunny Side" becoming country standards. The original three members of the Carter Family were A.P. Carter (Alvin Pleasant Delaney... Read more

Jimmie Rodgers - 53% match to Hank Williams

James Charles Rodgers, 8 September 1897, Pine Springs, near Meridian, Mississippi, USA, d. 26 May 1933, New York, USA. Jimmie was the youngest of three sons of Aaron Woodberry Rodgers, who had moved from Alabama to Meridian to work as foreman of a railroad maintenance crew. In... Read more

Johnny Cash - 52% match to Hank Williams

26 February 1932, Kingsland, Arkansas, USA, d. 12 September 2003, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. One of the giants of American music, Cash made over 70 albums of original material, plus countless guest appearances. His music reflected his love of America, his compassion, his love of... Read more