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Article: Hank Williams: lessons from the lost highway. (country songwriter)(American Songcraft)(Cover Story)
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- Guitar Player
- Article date:
- November 1, 1996
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"Who knows?" teases the down-home voice, in a radio spot dating from 1951. "There may be a great song out there somewhere in somebody's dresser drawer just waitin' to be sung." At the height of his popularity, the Grand Ole Opry's biggest star is hawking a booklet that bears his name, Hank Williams Tells How to write Folk and Western Music to Sell. Announcer Grant Turner continues the pitch: "I'm telling you, folks, I think that Hank Williams is one of the greatest songwriters that ever lived, and he really knows what a song has to have to make it click."
Anyone who read the book, continued Turner, would learn "just what he has to do to write a song that'll be ...
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