Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Lost & found: Hank Williams' notebook
From the Chicago Sun-Times
Country music archivists Stephen Shutts and Robert Reynolds (bassist for the Mavericks) curate a traveling Honky Tonk Hall of Fame (www.honkytonkhalloffame.com) featuring more than 1,000 items, among them Elvis' Presley's white underwear (circa 1970) and a piece of the wing from the Patsy Cline airplane crash, which have appeared at events such as the Brooks and Dunn Neon Circus and Wild West Show tour. They even bought the Zippin Pippen in Memphis, which is the nation's second oldest wooden roller coaster and was Elvis' favorite amusement park ride.
But while traveling the lost highway, Reynolds and Shutts came across a Holy Grail of American music. Earlier this summer they purchased a notebook consisting of 20 handwritten, unpublished Hank Williams lyrics and song fragments from May 2, 1947 through 1949. Seventeen of them were never recorded.
Read the article
Chicago Sun-Times
Country music archivists Stephen Shutts and Robert Reynolds (bassist for the Mavericks) curate a traveling Honky Tonk Hall of Fame (www.honkytonkhalloffame.com) featuring more than 1,000 items, among them Elvis' Presley's white underwear (circa 1970) and a piece of the wing from the Patsy Cline airplane crash, which have appeared at events such as the Brooks and Dunn Neon Circus and Wild West Show tour. They even bought the Zippin Pippen in Memphis, which is the nation's second oldest wooden roller coaster and was Elvis' favorite amusement park ride.
But while traveling the lost highway, Reynolds and Shutts came across a Holy Grail of American music. Earlier this summer they purchased a notebook consisting of 20 handwritten, unpublished Hank Williams lyrics and song fragments from May 2, 1947 through 1949. Seventeen of them were never recorded.
Read the article
Chicago Sun-Times
# posted by Dave Sichak @ 8:52 PM 
