Transcript: Hank Williams' Lost Music: Rare and Resurfaced

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SCOTT SIMON
NPR Weekend Edition - Saturday
10-25-2008
Hank Williams' Lost Music: Rare and Resurfaced

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Country music is narrative art that is popular around the world. At the pinnacle of that performance art you can find names that include Dolly Parton, Ernest Tubb, Patsy Cline and Johnny Cash. But on a level above, somewhere in the clouds, that's where you find Hank Williams. No matter how much the man's songs have been played, studied, cried over and admired, unless you were listening to WSM Nashville on the morning of February 3, 1951, you haven't heard this Hank before.

(Soundbite of song "Cold, Cold Heart")

Mr. HANK ...

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