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A heartbreaking and unforgettable portrait of country musics founding father. After he died in the backseat of a Cadillac at the age of twenty-nine, Hank Williams?a frail, flawed man who had become country musics most compelling and popular star?instantly morphed into its first tragic martyr. Having hit the heights in the postwar era with simple songs of heartache and star-crossed love, he would, with that outlaw swagger, become in death a template for the rock generation to follow. But unlike those other musical giants who never made thirty, no legacy endures quite like that of the "Hillbilly King." Now presenting the first fully realized biography of Hiram King Williams in a generation, Mark Ribowsky vividly returns us to the world of countrys origins, in this case 1920s Alabama, where Williams was born into the most trying of circumstances, which included a dictatorial mother, a henpecked father, and an agonizing spinal condition. Forced by his overbearing matriarch to do odd jobsselling peanuts, shining shoesyoung Hank soon found respite in street-corner blues man Rufus "Tee Tot" Payne, who showed him how to make a guitar sing. It wasnt long before young Hank found his way onto

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Author

Ribowsky, Mark, author

Publisher

New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781631491573

Category

music

Subjects

Fiction, Memoir, Music

Rating

3.73 / 5 (13 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14