"A song ain't nothin' in the world but a story just wrote with music to it."
Hear that lonesome whippoorwill
He sounds too blue to fly
The midnight train is whining low
I'm so lonesome I could cry.
I've never seen a night so long
When time goes crawling by
The moon just went behind the clouds
To hide its face and cry.
Did you ever see a robin weep
When leaves begin to die
That mean's he's lost the will to live
I'm so lonesome I could cry.
The silence of a falling star
Lights up a purple sky
And as I wonder just where you are
I'm so lonesome I could cry...
"I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" (Hank Williams)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hDPMJ5HJ3M
~Hank (Hiram ) Williams, Sr. (American Singer and Song Writer, b. September 17, 1923, Mount Olive, Alabama; d.*1953)
Bio by the Country Music Hall of Fame:
http://www.countrymusichalloffame.com/site/inductees.aspx?cid=200#
*"He may have died on December 31, 1952, in the back seat of his chauffeured Cadillac, and was pronounced dead early on January 1, 1953, in Oak Hill, West Virginia." (source: http://www.countrymusichalloffame.com/site/inductees.aspx?cid=200#)
Jambalaya on the Bayou
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnKOVPXhlnE
Hank William's Boyhood Home and Museum "at 127 Rose Street, Georgiana Alabama"
http://www.hankmuseum.com/main.aspx
Hank Williams, So Lonesome (American Made Music Series) (Paperback)
by Bill Koon (Author)
From Library Journal
Although he never made it to 30 and died nearly a half-century ago, singer/songwriter Hank Williams continues to exert tremendous influence on all spheres of popular music. The country crooner also continues to invite biographical treatment. In 1998, music historian Escott (Hank Williams: A Biography) and Florita, former marketer of the Hank Williams catalog for Mercury Records Nashville, produced the Grammy-winning, ten-CD set The Complete Hank Williams. While working on that project, they amassed a huge number of photographs, documents, and published and unpublished song lyrics. That iconography forms the basis of Hank Williams: Snapshots from the Lost Highway, an appealing coffee-table book that is being cross-promoted with the tribute album, Timeless. Composed of captions by the authors and excerpts of interviews with Williams and his family and friends, the text is somewhat sparse but to the point and well written. Rick Bragg also contributes an elegant foreword. Koon's Hank Williams, So Lonesome was first published as Hank Williams: A Bio-Bibliography (Greenwood, 1993). This second take features expanded biographical coverage and important discussions of Williams's songs. Also significant are the author's attempts to separate the facts of Williams's life and work from the mythology of the musician and his thoughtful assessment of sources. In eliminating the reference-book qualities of the earlier Greenwood volume, Koons has made a significant contribution to Williams literature for fans and scholars. As a pair, these books nearly perfectly complement each other, but, unfortunately, neither contains a discography. In addition, the Escott and Florita volume lacks a bibliography (perfectly acceptable for a work of this kind), and the Koons book contains only a scaled-back one. Despite these shortcomings, both books avoid sensationalizing their complex subject and are highly recommended for public libraries and academic libraries with a popular culture focus. James E. Perone, Mount Union Coll., Alliance, OH
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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