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9780143037712

Lovesick Blues : The Life of Hank Williams

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    9780143037712

  • ISBN10:

    0143037714

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-08-29
  • Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)

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Summary

Hank Williams, the quintessential country music singer and songwriter, lived a life as lonesome, desolate, and filled with sorrow as his timeless songs. From Williams’s dirt-poor beginnings as a sickly child to his emergence as a star of the Grand Ole Opry, Lovesick Bluesis the definitive biography of the man and his music.

Author Biography

Paul Hemphill was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. He is the author of four novels and eleven works of nonfiction dealing with the blue-collar South, including The Nashville Sound.

Table of Contents

Prologue: Summer of '49 1(10)
Young Hiram 11(16)
The Singing Kid 27(15)
Miss Audrey 42(14)
Fred Rose 56(18)
The Lovesick Blues 74(21)
A Star Is Born 95(16)
Three Chords and the Truth 111(16)
Lonely at the Top 127(23)
The Crash 150(27)
Lost Highway 177(14)
Better Dead than Alive 191(13)
Epilogue: Legacy 204(5)
Acknowledgments 209

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