"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 ...

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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 ...

Thor is a Norse god. Hank Williams is a country music god. That's about all the two larger-than-life figures have in common, or so it would seem. In 2014, their worlds seemed ready to collide in a ...