Monday, January 02, 2006
Hank's Music Lives On
From The Montgomery Advertiser
His voice has been stilled for more than half a century, but those mesmerized by Hank Williams aren't about to forget a man who wrote about lost love, sleepless nights and purple skies.
Many turned out at Williams' gravesite Sunday morning to remember him and the music he left behind at the age of 29 when alcohol, drugs and physical problems proved just too much for his heart.
Williams died in the back seat of his new baby blue Cadillac on Jan. 1, 1953, as he and Charles Carr, his teenage driver from Montgomery, tried to get to a concert engagement in West Virginia.
Carr was one of those who attended the memorial service at the Oakwood Cemetery Annex. He rarely misses the event or an opportunity to speak about Williams, whose meteoric career spread far beyond the country songs he made famous. ...
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Montgomery Advertiser
His voice has been stilled for more than half a century, but those mesmerized by Hank Williams aren't about to forget a man who wrote about lost love, sleepless nights and purple skies.
Many turned out at Williams' gravesite Sunday morning to remember him and the music he left behind at the age of 29 when alcohol, drugs and physical problems proved just too much for his heart.
Williams died in the back seat of his new baby blue Cadillac on Jan. 1, 1953, as he and Charles Carr, his teenage driver from Montgomery, tried to get to a concert engagement in West Virginia.
Carr was one of those who attended the memorial service at the Oakwood Cemetery Annex. He rarely misses the event or an opportunity to speak about Williams, whose meteoric career spread far beyond the country songs he made famous. ...
Read the article
Montgomery Advertiser
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