|
|
Article: Hanks for the memory; Hank Williams devotee Mike Gerrard goes to Alabama on the trail of the godfather of country music.
- Article from:
- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 31, 2001
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2001 Solo Syndication Limited. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Byline: MIKE GERRARD
HANK used to sit on these steps," she told me as we approached the house. Not much of a statement but it sent a shiver through me. I was in a place I thought I'd never be. When the country legend Hank Williams was a boy, he would sit on these steps in rural Alabama and play the comb and paper, his first musical instrument. When I was a boy in the north of England, the music of Hank Williams permeated the council house I grew up in, thanks to my father.
At that age, I just liked the sound and the bright yellow labels on the MGM 78s. You have to live a little to know why songs like Your Cheatin' Heart and I'm So Lonesome-I Could Cry ...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:
|
|
Article: Hank Williams remembered in Grand Ole Opry tribute
AP Worldstream;
January 5, 2003 ;
600 words
... ... Tenn. The Grand Ole Opry paid tribute to Hank Williams 50 years after his death, recalling a man ... direction of country music. Williams' son, Hank Williams Jr., and grandson, Hank Williams III, took the stage with a string of other ...
|
|