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Lovesick Blues: The Life of Hank Williams
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Lovesick Blues: The Life of Hank Williams Paperback - 2006

by Paul Hemphill

Hank Williams' story reads like fiction: dirt-poor beginnings as a sickly child, learning music from a black street singer and refining it in raucous honky-tonks during the Depression, and emerging as a Grand Ole Opry star. He mined his experiences to write songs that will live forever.


Summary

Hank Williams, the quintessential country music singer and songwriter, lived a life as lonesome, desolate, and filled with sorrow as his timeless songs. From Williams's dirt- poor beginnings as a sickly child to his emergence as a star of the Grand Ole Opry, Lovesick Blues is the definitive biography of the man and his music.

From the publisher

Paul Hemphill was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. He is the author of four novels and eleven works of nonfiction dealing with the blue-collar South, including The Nashville Sound.

First line

On Friday afternoons, he would suddenly loom like a ghost at the top of the hill above our house in Birmingham, announcing his arrival with a long blast on the air horns, hovering there long enough to shift into his lowest gear, then grandly descending for a triumphal victory lap in the dusty red Dodge truck while we kids in the bottoms ceased our ball-playing to gawk as he eased the rig to a shuddering stop at the curb.

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  • Title Lovesick Blues: The Life of Hank Williams
  • Author Paul Hemphill
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Trade Pape
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Adult Hc/Tr, Toronto, ON, Canada
  • Date August 29, 2006
  • Features Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780143037712 / 0143037714
  • Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.72 x 5.3 x 0.64 in (19.61 x 13.46 x 1.63 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Topical: Country/Cowboy
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

Media reviews

Hemphill comes to his love of Hank honestly. . . . He tells the familiar story with economy and grace. (Garrison Keillor, The New York Times Book Review)

A book as exhilarating as his music. (The Atlanta Journal- Constitution)

Citations

  • New York Times, 10/01/2006, Page 28

About the author

Paul Hemphill was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. He is the author of four novels and eleven works of nonfiction dealing with the blue-collar South, including The Nashville Sound.
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