Hank Williams
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Durable Formula for Grand Ole Opry
Report by Robert Shelton, The New York Times, 26 November 1961
NASHVILLE, TENN. After thirty-five years of broadcasting, the grand old dinosaur of American radio, Grand Ole Opry, is as boisterously alive as ever. The show ...
Cream, Tim Hardin et al Album Reviews
Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 24 December 1966
Cream working to produce a great album ...
Small Faces, Velvet Underground etc.: New Albums Reviewed
Review by Peter Jones, Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 8 June 1968
Cockney Rock LP puts Small Faces in West Coast bracket ...
Overview by Martin Hawkins, Record Mirror, 1 May 1971
MUCH HAS been written recently about the influence of Sam Phillips' Memphis Sun label on rock 'n' roll, especially since its British releases of recent ...
Guide by John Morthland, Creem, April 1973
WHERE TO begin an article about Hank Williams! How about with the kind of gross overstatement that it's impossible to disprove (or prove)? To wit: ...
Death in Hi-Fi or First Tastes of Tombstone
Overview by Nick Tosches, Waxpaper, 3 March 1978
Music deaths are big news nowadays. It seems hardly an ish of Rolling Stone goes by when we aren't treated to a eulogy for a ...
Interview by John Morthland, Country Music, April 1980
IT IS A motel room like any other chain motel room: the double beds with nightstand between them, the long dresser facing them, the static-filled ...
Chet Flippo: Your Cheatin' Heart — A Biography Of Hank Williams (Simon and Schuster)
Book Review by Susan Whitall, Creem, September 1981
ROSANNE CASH, Johnny's first-born and as I write, No. 1 on the country charts, was quoted in Esquire: "A lot has happened in country music ...
Redneck Soul: George Jones and the White Man's Blues
Book Excerpt by Barney Hoskyns, 'From a Whisper to a Scream' (Fontana), 1991
NO ONE IS FONDER of saying that country music is "the white man's blues" than black artists like B.B. King, Etta James and Bobby Womack. ...
Don Was: What Was Was and What Was Is
Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 23 March 1997
After years as a top producer and bandleader, Don Was lost his creative vision. Then Francis Ford Coppola and Hank Williams gave him an idea. ...
Retrospective by Fred Dellar, MOJO, December 1998
He couldn't read. He couldn't write. He couldn't stop screwing up. Yet Hank Williams is a giant of popular music without whom rock'n'roll might never ...
Obituary by Alan Clayson, The Guardian, 26 August 2008
Steel guitarist who backed Hank Williams ...
Go your own way: Hank Williams and his progeny
Report and Interview by Angus Batey, The Guardian, 24 October 2008
Hank Williams changed the face of country music. How can his descendants live up to that? Angus Batey finds out. ...
On The Lost Highway: Hank Williams
Retrospective by Mark Mordue, The Australian, 22 October 2011
DAMNED cold. An ice storm over Nashville has closed down flights across the state of Tennessee. ...
see also Hank Williams Jr.
see also Holly Williams
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