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Article: 'HANK WILLIAMS' ENTERTAINING

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October 6, 2007
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"You wanna sing about hard times," a black blues singer is said to have told the young Hank Williams, "find some o' your own."

And that's what Williams did. Chronically lonely, bedeviled by back pain, disappointed in marriage and a country music superstar before he was old enough to deal with the fame, he drank and drugged himself to death in 1953 at the age of 29.

That's the bad news. The good news, if it can be called that, is that Alabama-born Williams chronicled his hard times in songs that live among the classics of old-style "hillbilly" music. One can be indifferent to the genre yet still respond to "Your Cheatin' Heart," "Honky Talk Blues," "Lost Highway" and "I'm So Lonesome I Could ...

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