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Item Details
Title:
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HANK
THE SHORT LIFE AND LONG COUNTRY ROAD OF HANK WILLIAMS |
By: |
Mark Ribowsky |
Format: |
Hardback |
List price:
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£22.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
1631491571 |
ISBN 13: |
9781631491573 |
Publisher: |
WW NORTON & CO |
Pub. date: |
22 November, 2016 |
Pages: |
496 |
Description: |
A heart-breaking, unforgettable portrait of country music's founding father and "Hillbilly King". |
Synopsis: |
After he died in the back seat of a Cadillac at the age of twenty-nine, Hank Williams-a frail, flawed man who had become country music's first real star-instantly morphed into its first tragic martyr. Having hit the heights with simple songs of despair, depression and tainted love, he would become in death a template for the rock generation to follow. Mark Ribowsky weaves together the first fully realised biography of Williams in a generation. Examining his music while re-creating days and nights choked in booze and desperation, he traces the rise of this legend-from the dirt roads of Alabama to the immortal stage of the Grand Ole Opry and to a lonely end on New Year's Day, 1953. This original work uncovers the real Hank beneath the myths that have long enshrouded his legacy. |
Illustrations: |
16 pages of photographs |
Publication: |
US |
Imprint: |
Liveright Publishing Corporation |
Returns: |
Returnable |
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