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.
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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
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Topical: Country/Cowboy
- Dewey Decimal Code B
Media reviews
A book as exhilarating as his music. (The Atlanta Journal- Constitution)
Citations
- New York Times, 10/01/2006, Page 28
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