Hank : The Short Life and Long Country Road of Hank Williams Hardback
by Mark Ribowsky
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After he died in the back seat of a Cadillac at the age of twenty-nine, Hank Williams-a frail, flawed man who had become country music's first real star-instantly morphed into its first tragic martyr.
Having hit the heights with simple songs of despair, depression and tainted love, he would become in death a template for the rock generation to follow. Mark Ribowsky weaves together the first fully realised biography of Williams in a generation.
Examining his music while re-creating days and nights choked in booze and desperation, he traces the rise of this legend-from the dirt roads of Alabama to the immortal stage of the Grand Ole Opry and to a lonely end on New Year's Day, 1953.
This original work uncovers the real Hank beneath the myths that have long enshrouded his legacy.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:496 pages, 16 pages of photographs
- Publisher:WW Norton & Co
- Publication Date:06/01/2017
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- ISBN:9781631491573
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Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:496 pages, 16 pages of photographs
- Publisher:WW Norton & Co
- Publication Date:06/01/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9781631491573