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Read [Paul Hemphill Book] ^ Lovesick Blues: The Life of Hank Williams Online ^ PDF eBook or Kindle ePUB free. Lovesick Blues: The Life of Hank Williams Patrick Abbott said Great Read. I'm not much of a country music fan, but this was a very well-written book. The author has an easy matter-of-fact style that tells the story of Hank Williams without adding or subtracting for the sake of entertainment. I have a better understanding of why Hank was so important and what drove him.. Good book but no sources Diane Diekman This is an interesting and easy to read story of Hank Williams. I read the whole thing, however, wondering where the author got hi
| Title | : | Lovesick Blues: The Life of Hank Williams |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.94 (651 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0670034142 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-14 |
| Language | : | English |
Patrick Abbott said Great Read. I'm not much of a country music fan, but this was a very well-written book. The author has an easy matter-of-fact style that tells the story of Hank Williams without adding or subtracting for the sake of entertainment. I have a better understanding of why Hank was so important and what drove him.. Good book but no sources Diane Diekman This is an interesting and easy to read story of Hank Williams. I read the whole thing, however, wondering where the author got his information. Obviously, he interviewed Don Helms, but I don't know who else he interviewed or how much material he took from Colin Escott or other biographers. How does he know Lon Williams suffered from a fist in the face instead of gas in France? Sources are important in biographies. Although I enjoyed reading this book, I wouldn't have bought it if I'd known it contained no source notes or bibiography. The absence of photos also decreases its value.. Good information for Hank's fans Joe W. Culver I am a longtime fan of Hank Williams' music. Three of the CDs in my car's six-CD changer are the collection of his singles. I also have picked up bits and pieces of information about his life. This biography filled in many gaps. For instance, some commentators have mentioned the influence of Tee-Tot. Hemphill fleshes out Hank's relationship with that significant mentor. It's an easy read, an interesting read, provides great insights into Hank's stormy relationships with the two significant women in his life (his mother and his wife). I have one complaint: I wish it were longer.
Hemphill, author of The Nashville Sound and the son of a long-distance trucker from Alabama, brings his background to bear on a story that often reads like fiction. Now, with his definitive biography of the man and his music, Paul Hemphill takes the reader on a journey through Hank Williams’s life and times: his dirt-poor beginnings as a sickly child, learning music from a black street singer, refining it in raucous rural honky-tonks during the Depression, emerging as a star of the Grand Ole Opry. Having sprouted out of
With the end of Williams's life, the book turns back to its author, as an older, wiser Hemphill recounts some of the sorrows of his own life. . From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. This concise, startling biography starts not with its subject, Hank Williams, but with its author sitting in the cab of his father's truck one day in 1949, hearing Williams sing "like a hurt animal." The brief incident immediately binds Hemphill and Williams (1923–1952) together as children of the rural South, united by the places and circumstances from which they came (Hemphill has written four novels and 11 nonfiction works dealing with the blue-collar South). Against this backdrop, Hemphill tells the story of Williams's boyhood, which involved constant movement from town to town, infrequent school attendance and jobs as a shoe-shine bo
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