Article: THE LAST TEMPTATION OF HANK WILLIAMS

Article: Hank Williams' Legend Proves Enduring
AP Online;  June 12, 2003 ;     700+ words ......stars has been dead for 50 years. Hank Williams' gaunt, lifeless body was found...Case in point was the 24th Annual Hank Williams Festival in Georgiana, where Hank...Highway: The Life and Music of Hank Williams. It's on an extended run in New...

Article: Dead 50 years, Hank Williams doesn't seem a day older
AP Worldstream;  June 12, 2003 ;     700+ words ......stars has been dead for 50 years. Hank Williams' gaunt, lifeless body was found...Case in point was the 24th Annual Hank Williams Festival in Georgiana, where Hank...Highway: The Life and Music of Hank Williams. It's on an extended run in New...

Article: King of the Hillbillies: Hank Williams.(Biography)
Southern Cultures;  December 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Hiram Hank Williams was born on a tenant farm in Mt. Olive...with him and played in a medicine show: Hank Williams and the Drifting Cowboys. It was in...there on the spot. Let's drink to that. Hank Williams was an alcoholic by the time he hit...

Article: Hanks for the memory Hank Williams devotee Mike Gerrard goes to Alabama on the trail of the godfather of country music
Evening Standard - London;  August 31, 2001 ;     700+ words ......never be. When the country legend Hank Williams was a boy, he would sit on these...north of England, the music of Hank Williams permeated the council house I...Could Cry can rip you apart, as Hank Williams put his life into his lyrics more...

Article: Hanks for the memory; Hank Williams devotee Mike Gerrard goes to Alabama on the trail of the godfather of country music.
The Evening Standard (London, England);  August 31, 2001 ;     700+ words ......never be. When the country legend Hank Williams was a boy, he would sit on these...north of England, the music of Hank Williams permeated the council house I...Could Cry can rip you apart, as Hank Williams put his life into his lyrics more...

Article: `HIGHWAY' TRIBUTE TO HANK WILLIAMS.(PREVIEW)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  November 4, 1999 ;     634 words ......the Times Union Country singer Hank Williams, at 29, was already in the history...Cadillac,'' Tim Hardin's ``Tribute to Hank Williams'' and Robin and Linda Williams' ``Rolling & Rambling (The Death of Hank Williams).'' Big-budget biomusical Forty-s...

Article: 'Hank Williams Trail' honors singer
Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  November 5, 2006 ;     700+ words ......paying homage to country music icon Hank Williams. His boyhood home, a museum in...of Tourism & Travel calls the "Hank Williams Trail." "I enjoy all country western...recording covers. Williams' son, Hank Williams Jr., is a successful country-rock...

Article: Musical revisits short life and long-lived songs of Hank Williams
Charleston Gazette;  June 8, 2006 ;     551 words ......Charleston Stage Company stages Hank Williams: Lost Highwayat 8 p.m. today...More than half a century after Hank Williams died at age 29, he and his songs...will stage the bio-musical, "Hank Williams: Lost Highway" at 8 p.m. today...

Article: SINGER KEEPS HANK WILLIAMS' MEMORY ALIVE.(SHOWCASE)
Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI);  November 3, 2002 ;     424 words ......State Journal Fifty years ago on New Year's Day, Hank Williams died of a heart attack in the back of Cadillac...Civic Center Thursday. I've been performing as Hank Williams longer than Hank Williams performed, said Petty, 33. Petty isn't boasting...

Article: Continuing a tradition: ; Fifty-five years after his death, Hank Williams legacy is being revived
Sunday Gazette-Mail;  April 13, 2008 ;     700+ words ...If you go Hank Williams Festival: The 29th annual festival will be held June 6 and 7 at Hank Williams Music Park in Georgiana, Ala. Among...e-mail cityofgeorgiana @centurytel.net. Hank Williams Boyhood Home & Museum: 127 Rose St...

Article: Driver speaks out about singer Hank Williams' last ride
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  January 5, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Driver speaks out about singer Hank Williams' last ride By JIM THARPE Atlanta...back seat was singer-songwriter Hank Williams Sr. "I ran in and explained my...their zenith -- there was Hiram "Hank" Williams. The hard-drinking, rough- around-the-e...

Article: Remembering Hank Williams
Fresh Air (NPR);  September 18, 1998 ;     700+ words ......75th anniversary of the birth of Hank Williams, one of the originators of country...Albert Opry. (BEGIN AUDIO CLIP -- HANK WILLIAMS PERFORMING LOVESICK BLUES ) RED...Welcome to the Lovesick Blues boy, Hank Williams. APPLAUSE AND CHEERING Hi, Hank...

Article: Museum in Ala. honors country singer Hank Williams
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  December 29, 2002 ;     700+ words ......in Ala. honors country singer Hank Williams By JACKIE SHECKLER FINCH Date...Editions.=.Sunday Biographical: HANK WILLIAMS Slumped in the back seat of a...speeding through a dark night, Hank Williams died 50 years ago this New Year...

Article: Country Legends - A Profile of Hank Williams
NPR All Things Considered;  August 16, 1994 ;     700+ words ......s give a great big, old-fashioned welcome to Hank Williams.' [applause] HANK WILLIAMS, Singer: Thank you kindly, Mr. Turner, thank...everybody is happy and feelin' good today. ADAMS: Hank Williams on the radio in 1949. Over the next three days...