Garrison Keillor on Hank Willams
I’m a little hesitant to post this because it will disappear shortly into The New York Time’s paid content section. But while it lasts you can read a great profile of Hank Williams written by Garrison Keillor ostensibly it’s a review of “LOVESICK BLUES The Life of Hank Williams” a new biography by Paul Hemphill. It doesnt talk a lot about the book per see rather Garrison tell’s Hank Williams story in his own inimitable way.
It was the greatest death in country music, greater than any plane crash, car crash or drug overdose, greater than Jimmie Rodgers dying of TB in a hotel room near Times Square. The hero died in a snowstorm early on New Year’s Day, 1953, after a few years of intense stardom, as he lay sleeping in the back seat of a powder blue Cadillac chauffeured by an 18-year-old college kid named Charles Carr, somewhere between Bristol, Tenn., and Oak Hill, W.Va., on the way to a New Year’s Day concert in Canton, Ohio.
Read it while you can. [Link]
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