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Article: Hank Williams' Legend Proves Enduring
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- June 12, 2003
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Dateline: GEORGIANA, Ala.
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Country music is, at its big heart, the music of longing: for the
way things used to be, for lost love. So it's only fitting that one
of today's biggest country music stars has been dead for 50 years.
Hank Williams' gaunt, lifeless body was found in the back of a Cadillac
in Oak Hill, W. Va., on Jan. 1, 1953. He was 29 and full of the alcohol
and pills that could never quite kill the pain of a spinal disorder
or his lovesick blues.
Now, 50 years after 25,000 mourners flocked to his funeral in Montgomery,
Williams' popularity seems undiminished, even resurgent, if for no
more reason than society's habit of marking such ...