7/7/2023 0 Comments Hank by mark ribowsky![]() Examining Williams's chart-topping hits while also re-creating days and nights choked in booze and desperation, Hank uncovers the real man beneath the myths, reintroducing us to an American original whose legacy, like a good night at the honkytonk, promises to carry on and on. In chronicling Hanks rise to stardom, Ribowsky also explores all those cautionary tales that have, until now, remained secreted beneath. Six decades later, Mark Ribowsky now weaves together the first fully realized biography of Hank Williams in a generation. Six decades later, Ribowsky traces the miraculous rise of this music legend?from the dirt roads of rural Alabama to the now-immortal stage of the Grand Ole Opry, and, finally, to a lonely end on New Year's Day in 1953. Hank Williams, a frail, flawed man who had become country music's first real star, instantly morphed into its first tragic martyr when he died in the backseat of a Cadillac at the age of twenty-nine. ![]() Mark Ribowsky's Hank has been hailed as the "greatest biography yet" ( Library Journal, starred review) of the beloved icon. Hank: The Short Life and Long Country Road of Hank Williams. "A compassionate yet clear-eyed" ( Washington Post) portrait of country music's founding father and "Hillbilly King." ![]() ![]() Print Hank: The Short Life and Long Country Road of Hank Williams ![]()
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