"Lovesick Blues: The Life of Hank Williams" by Paul Hemphill; Viking ($23.95) In "Lovesick Blues: The Life of Hank Williams" by Paul Hemphill, you'll learn all you need to know about the country music ...

Paul Hemphill’s new Hank Williams biography, Lovesick Blues (Viking, $23.95), is partially a tribute to Hemphill’s late father, owner-operator Paul “Hemp” Hemphill. He listened to Hank in the late ...

On this day (August 4) in 1947, country icon Hank Williams stepped into Castle Studio in Nashville, Tennessee, to record “On the Banks of the Old Ponchartrain.” Backed with “Fly Trouble,” Williams ...

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Sixty-two years after his death, Hank Williams is still full of surprises. In 1950, the singer recorded "The Garden Spot Programs," a series of radio shows sponsored by Naughton Farms, a mail-order ...

Hank Williams set many a music-biz template. He was a “rollin’ stone” before Mick Jagger, and a guitar rogue before Keith Richards. A singer/songwriter before Bob Dylan. A successful talent who couldn ...

The life of Hank Williams is a strange one. On one hand, he’s one of the most important and influential country singers in history. On the other, there are persistent rumors about whether he wrote ...

September is turning into a month-long celebration of what would have been Hank Williams' 100th birthday on Sept. 17, with events planned in Montgomery — where he lived, sang and is buried — and ...