Lovesick Blues: The Life of Hank Williams
by Paul Hemphill
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Author: Paul HemphillEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2006-08-29
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Book Review: The Plain Truth
Summary: 5 Stars
I listen to Hank Williams 45s all the time.
He should be considered the "Godfather of Country
Music" (the only other nominee would be Jimmy
Rodgers). Hank Williams sang for the 'lintheads',
a pejorative applied to the workers of paper mills
in Up Country (northern) South Carolina. (By the way,
if it matters, I am a graduate of the University of
South Carolina.) It's all in his voice, you can feel
the pain. And that's the key, for his compositions
reflect the pain ---and hopelessness--- of the poor
Southern white at the time Hank lived in the 1930s,
40s and early 50s.
This book brings out that painful acculturation,
and we're the better for it. It isn't just the well-
known and famous songs that bring forth the soul of
this Alabamian ("You Win Again"; "Cold, Cold Heart";
"Lovesick Blues"; "Your Cheating Heart" among others),
but other gems ("Faded Love And Winter Roses"; "Alone
And Forsaken"; "My Son Calls Another Man Daddy" come
to mind).
Williams was a brilliant songwriter with a voice
I call "smooth grit" coupled with the pain of his own
life and that of the times he lived. Country music
came out of those post-Depression years in the South,
and Hank Williams was its greatest chronicler.
Summary of Lovesick Blues: The Life of Hank Williams
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 Blues is the definitive biography of the man and his music.Music Books
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