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Transcript: Commentary: Legacy of Hank Williams
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- January 4, 2003
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Commentary: Legacy of Hank Williams
Host: SCOTT SIMON
Time: 1:00-2:00 PM
SCOTT SIMON, host:
Fifty years ago this week, Hank Williams didn't wake up in the backseat
of the blue Cadillac he'd paid a teen-age kid to drive from Knoxville,
Tennessee, to a New Year's Day concert in Canton, Ohio. They got
as far as Oak Hill, West Virginia. He had a pint of bourbon in his
belly, a couple of shots of morphine in his veins, and who knows how
many songs simmering in a kind of low boil inside his heart. He was
29 years old.
It's a little too particular to refer to Hank Williams as the greatest
country-western artist of all time. He was one of the few song makers
of any ...