Hank Williams

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Hank Williams, the quintessential country music singer and songwriter, died alone in the backseat of his Cadillac on New Year's Day in 1953. He was gone at the age of twenty-nine. He died much as he lived - drunk and forlorn.

Lovesick Blues is a definitive biography of the man and his music. Author Paul Hemphill takes the reader on a journey through Hank Williams' life and times unearthing many fresh details. From his dirt-poor beginning as a sickly child, to learning music from a black street singer, to refining it in raucous honky-tonks during the depression and emerging as a star of the Grand Ole Opry. Uneducated, fatherless, an alcoholic in his teens, unlucky at love, Hank mined his experiences to write songs that will live forever.