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Article: `HIGHWAY' TRIBUTE TO HANK WILLIAMS.(PREVIEW)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- November 4, 1999
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Byline: MICHAEL ECK Special to the Times Union
Country singer Hank Williams, at 29, was already in the history books when he left Knoxville, Tenn. -- splayed-out and drug-addled in the back seat of a Cadillac -- on Dec. 31, 1952.
By the next morning, he would be a legend as well -- with his dramatic New Year's Day demise mythologized in countless songs like Dave Alvin's ``Long White Cadillac,'' Tim Hardin's ``Tribute to Hank Williams'' and Robin and Linda Williams' ``Rolling & Rambling (The Death of Hank Williams).''
Big-budget biomusical Forty-six years later, the Hank Williams death cult does indeed roll and ramble along, and the ultimate ...