Monday, January 02, 2006
At The Library
From the Shreveport Times
A compilation of books found at the local library...
"Lovesick Blues: The Life of Hank Williams" by Paul Hemphill (nonfiction). Hank Williams died alone on New Year's Day 1953. He died much as he had lived -- drunk, forlorn, suffering from a birth defect, wondering when the bubble would burst. Having sprouted out of nowhere, he was gone at the age of 29. This book will take you on a journey through his life and times: his dirt-poor beginnings as a sickly child, learning music from a black street singer, refining it in raucous honky-tonks during the Depression, emerging as a star of the Grand Ole Opry, uneducated, virtually fatherless, an alcoholic in his teens, unlucky at love, Hank mined his experience to write songs that will live forever.
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Shreveport Times
A compilation of books found at the local library...
"Lovesick Blues: The Life of Hank Williams" by Paul Hemphill (nonfiction). Hank Williams died alone on New Year's Day 1953. He died much as he had lived -- drunk, forlorn, suffering from a birth defect, wondering when the bubble would burst. Having sprouted out of nowhere, he was gone at the age of 29. This book will take you on a journey through his life and times: his dirt-poor beginnings as a sickly child, learning music from a black street singer, refining it in raucous honky-tonks during the Depression, emerging as a star of the Grand Ole Opry, uneducated, virtually fatherless, an alcoholic in his teens, unlucky at love, Hank mined his experience to write songs that will live forever.
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Shreveport Times
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