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Zusatztext A well-researched and annotated book Informationen zum Autor Patrick Huber is a professor of history at Missouri University of Science and Technology. He is the author of three other books, including Linthead Stomp: The Creation of Country Music in the Piedmont South (2008), which won the International Country Music Conference's 2009 Belmont Book Award and the American Folklore Society's 2010 Wayland D. Hand Prize. Steve Goodson chairs the History Department at the University of West Georgia. He is the author of Highbrows, Hillbillies, and Hellfire: Public Entertainment in Atlanta, 1880-1920 (2002), which won the Georgia Historical Society's Malcolm Bell, Jr., and Muriel Barrow Bell Award for the best book published on Georgia history in 2002.David M. Anderson is an associate professor in the Department of History at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston. He is the co-author of "The Making of Dale Hawkins" in Shreveport Sounds in Black and White (2008). Klappentext Featuring more than sixty essential writings about country music's great singer and songwriter Hank Williams, this book reveals interpretations of his life over the last six decades and chronicles his transformation from star-crossed hillbilly singer to enduring American icon. Zusammenfassung Featuring more than sixty essential writings about country music's great singer and songwriter Hank Williams, this book reveals interpretations of his life over the last six decades and chronicles his transformation from star-crossed hillbilly singer to enduring American icon. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction A Note about Editorial Policies PART I. "King of the Hillbillies": Chronicling Hank Williams During His Lifetime (1946-1953) 1. "Hank Williams Rides on Down Trail of National Popularity on Air Records" William E. Cleghorn 2. "Pulpit Echoes" Rev. A. S. Turnipseed 3. "'Cause Hank Is Moving In, Move It Over, Big Time" Allen Rankin 4. "Got 'Lovesick Blues'? No Sir, Not Hank Williams" Gene L. Roe 5. "Gold in Them Hillbillies" Unidentified newspaper 6. "Golden Oatunes: H. Williams Clefs 22 Hillbilly Toppers" Billboard 7. "Hank Has a Method: Williams Tells How and Why His Disks Click" Billboard 8. "Country Music Goes to Town" Rufus Jarman 9. Excerpts from Divorce Complaint and Defendant's Answer and Cross-Bill in Audrey Mae Williams vs. Hank Williams, Et Al. Audrey and Hank Williams 10. "Hank Williams Hillbilly Show Is Different" Edith Lindeman 11. "Famous Song Composer is Arrested Here" Shreveport Times PART II. "Hank, It Will Never Be the Same without You": Mourning the Death of Hank Williams (January-February, 1953) 12. "Mystery Shrouds Death of Singer Hank Williams" Knoxville Journal 13. "Hank Williams Had Premonition of Death" H. B. Teeter 14. "Hank's Funeral is Far Largest in All Montgomery's History" Joe Azbell 15. Selected Newspaper Editorials Various newspapers 16. "So Long, Hank. Hear You Later" Allen Rankin 17. Selected Letters to the Editor Various newspapers 18. "Frank Walker's Letter to Hank Williams" Cash Box PART III. "Hank Williams Won't Die": The Legend Emerges (1953-1964) 19. "Hank's First Wife Tells Up and Downs of Marriage" Audrey Williams, as told to the Montgomery Advertiser 20. Excerpt from Our Hank Williams, "The Drifting Cowboy," as Told by His Mother to Allen Rankin Mrs. W. W. Stone, with Allen Rankin 21. "Was Singer a Suicide?" Oklahoma City Times 22. "The Death of Hank Williams" Eli Waldron 23. "The Strange Life and Death of Hank Williams" Sanford Mabrie 24. "The Short Life of Hank Williams" Ed Linn 25. Three "Hank's Corner" Columns Irene Williams Smith 26. Liner Notes to Hank Williams' Greatest Hits Charlie Lamb 27. Excerpt from the Screenplay for Your Cheatin' Heart Stanford Whitmore PART IV. Bringing the Legend to Life: The Search for the "Real" Hank Wil...
