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Article: Hank Williams III tries to find his way: ; Commentary
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- April 9, 2000
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For the Sunday Gazette-Mail
somebody told me when I came to Nashville
"son, you finally got it made; Hank made it here,
we're all sure that you will"
but I don't think Hank done it this a-way
are you sure Hank done it this a-way
- Waylon Jennings
COUNTRY music is fraught with ironies, none more potent or
complicated than the legacy of Hiram Hank Williams (or simply "Hank
Sr."), who died, drunk, in the back seat of a Cadillac on New Year's
Day 1953 near Oak Hill. By the time Waylon Jennings wrote "Are You
Sure Hank Done It This Way" in the 1970s, Hank Sr. was an icon,
worshipped by country purists and even academics, who sometimes
called him "the hillbilly Shakespeare."
And the Williams ...