Sunday, October 24, 2004
All by her lonesome: Holly Williams charts her own path into music
From the Boston Herald
Holly Williams wears her legacy lightly.
Good thing. Legacies don't come any heavier.
Williams, 24, is the granddaughter of country music's most legendary figure, Hank Williams. Her father is Hank's famously rowdy country singer son, Hank Williams Jr., affectionately known to friends and fans by his childhood nickname, Bocephus. And her half-brother, Hank Williams III, is a revved-up country/punk rocker even rowdier than his dad.
Williams says she didn't worry one bit about upholding her family's reputation when she belatedly started playing guitar as a high school senior.
"Really, it never crossed my mind,"' she says. She's on the phone from the outskirts of Cleveland, where she's taking a break from driving her Chevy Suburban from her gig in Detroit to the next one in Pittsburgh. "My childhood was just normal. I grew up in a suburban neighborhood in Nashville. My dad lived two hours away in Paris (Tennessee). He kept us really sheltered. He didn't want us out on the road in that whole wild world. We went to a couple of shows a year, but he was very careful. He was like, `I don't want to be Bocephus. I want to be Daddy.' "
Still, you can't be Hank's kid and anonymous living in the country music capital of the world.
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Boston Herald
Holly Williams wears her legacy lightly.
Good thing. Legacies don't come any heavier.
Williams, 24, is the granddaughter of country music's most legendary figure, Hank Williams. Her father is Hank's famously rowdy country singer son, Hank Williams Jr., affectionately known to friends and fans by his childhood nickname, Bocephus. And her half-brother, Hank Williams III, is a revved-up country/punk rocker even rowdier than his dad.
Williams says she didn't worry one bit about upholding her family's reputation when she belatedly started playing guitar as a high school senior.
"Really, it never crossed my mind,"' she says. She's on the phone from the outskirts of Cleveland, where she's taking a break from driving her Chevy Suburban from her gig in Detroit to the next one in Pittsburgh. "My childhood was just normal. I grew up in a suburban neighborhood in Nashville. My dad lived two hours away in Paris (Tennessee). He kept us really sheltered. He didn't want us out on the road in that whole wild world. We went to a couple of shows a year, but he was very careful. He was like, `I don't want to be Bocephus. I want to be Daddy.' "
Still, you can't be Hank's kid and anonymous living in the country music capital of the world.
Read the article
Boston Herald