Hank : the short life and long country road of Hank Williams /

Hank : the short life and long country road of Hank Williams /

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Author / Creator:	Ribowsky, Mark, author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, [2017] ©2017
Description:	xxiii, 472 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Williams, Hank, -- 1923-1953. Williams, Hank, -- 1923-1953. Country musicians -- United States -- Biography. Country musicians. United States. Biographies.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10921489

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Varying Form of Title:	The short life and long country road of Hank Williams
ISBN:	9781631491573 1631491571
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages [427]-450) and index.
Summary:	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 music's 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. Presenting the first fully realized biography of Hiram King Williams in a generation, Mark Ribowsky vividly returns us to the world of country music's 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. Tracing the singular rise of a music legend from the street corners of the Depression-era South to the now-immortal stage of the Grand Ole Opry, and finally to a haunting, lonely end on New Year's Day 1953, Hank uncovers the real man beneath the myths, reintroducing us to an American original whose legacy, like a good night at the honkytonk, promises to carry on and on.

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Call Number:	ML420.W55 R53 2017
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