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Article: Hank Williams remembered in Opry tribute; 50 years after death: Williams' tunes changed the direction of the country music business
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- January 6, 2003
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Grand Ole Opry paid tribute to Hank
Williams 50 years after his death, recalling a man whose honest,
cutting songs about cheating, drinking and loneliness changed the
direction of country music.
Williams' son, Hank Williams Jr., and grandson, Hank Williams III,
took the stage with a string of other performers Saturday at the
Ryman Auditorium.
"Everybody who ever sang a country song since Hank Williams came
along has been influenced," Sharon White Skaggs, of The Whites, said
after the group played "Move It On Over" for the packed auditorium.
Vince Gill called Williams "the greatest singer-songwriter who