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Article: Dead 50 years, Hank Williams doesn't seem a day older
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- June 12, 2003
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Dateline: GEORGIANA, Alabama
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, West Virginia, 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 monumental ...