Lovesick Blues: The Life of Hank Williams - Hardcover

Hemphill, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670034142 ISBN 13: 9780670034147

Publisher: Viking Press Inc, 2005

Synopsis

Traces the life and career of the mid-twentieth-century country music star, from his sickly and fatherless childhood and musical education by an African-American street singer, to his early gigs in Depression-era rural honky-tonks and rise to Grand Ole Opry star, in an account that also discusses his struggles with alcoholism and early death. 30,000 first printing.

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Review:

"Hank Williams wrote the rock'n'roll rulebook. Moving...absorbing biography of 'the hillbilly Shakespeare'" (Daily Express)

"A fabulous and tragic tale and Hemphill tells it well. Excellent" (Scotsman)

"Moving and informative...Lovesick Blues is lean, distilled Hank" (Herald)

"This biography does tough justice to a wrecked icon" (The Times)

"[A] concise, startling biography...The connection between author and subject is what makes this book so rewarding" (Publishers Weekly)

From the Publisher:

A captivating biography of one of America's greatest songwriters who died alone in the back of a Cadillac, aged only twenty-nine.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Press Inc
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0670034142
• ISBN 13: 9780670034147
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 207