Lovesick Blues: The Life of Hank Williams

Paul Hemphill

Lovesick Blues: The Life of Hank Williams
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage
Country
United Kingdom
Published
1 November 2006
Pages
224
ISBN
9780099469513

Lovesick Blues: The Life of Hank Williams

Paul Hemphill

A captivating biography of one of America’s greatest songwriters who died alone in the back of a Cadillac, aged only twenty-nine.

Hank Williams is not just one of America’s greatest songwriters but also one of the most enigmatic- - a raw poet from the rolling pine woods of south Alabama whose anguished lyrics were celebrated from the clamorous roadhouses of the Deep South all the way to Carnegie Hall. His tragic early death at the age of only twenty-nine, drunk and drugged, alone in the back seat of a Cadillac convertible on his way to a gig, ended a career that lasted only six years but went on to influence many of the greatest musicians in recent history.Paul Hemphill has written a fascinating interpretative biography of Hank Williams, with the kind of soul and understanding that other books about him have lacked. Whence the pain and despair? Why the booze and pills? Where did his genius come from? How did he know everything he wrote about? These are the questions it seeks to answer.

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