“The Treasures Of Hank Williams” includes about 2,000 ... But perhaps most interesting are the handwritten lyrics of some of his songs: “Your Cheatin’ Heart,” “I Saw The Light ...

For Hank Williams Jr., the struggle to hold his own in the country music world was stretched over years of imitation before finally breaking the barrier and becoming a star in his own right.

Since I like a lot of the music from that era, I decided to look a little deeper — and felt surprised to learn there were claims he wrote the Hank Williams classic songs, "I'm So Lonesome I ...

The songs that made Hank Williams, Jr., a Country Music Hall of Famer are just part of the conversation. The songs that kept him out for so long deserve as much consideration. Not that any should ...

Hank Williams set many a music-biz template. He was a “rollin’ stone” before Mick Jagger, and a guitar rogue before Keith Richards. A singer/songwriter before Bob Dylan. A successful talent ...

By the late 70s, Hank Jr. was cranking out hits left and right. Songs like Family Tradition, Whiskey Bent And Hell Bound, and ...

This Hank Williams Jr. deep cut from the 1979 album Family Tradition deserves more love. It’s one of Williams’ bluesiest tracks, but it doesn’t lose that country/honky tonk energy that he ...

If everyone at Castle Studio in Nashville had known that the song they were tracking with country superstar Hank Williams would be their last, they might not have been as keen to make it one of ...

“I think it’s extraordinary in the fact that he’s been dead for 70 years, and his music is alive and well today around the world,” said Hank’s daughter, Jett Williams. “My dad has ...

17, Sam adds that now “just felt like it was time for me to do one [of his songs] that I really felt connected to, and that's one I feel connected to the most.” Hank Williams died in 1953 ...

Even so, she knows Hank Williams’ hillbilly singing voice, every recorded tone and inflection. She knows his music, and the stories behind the songs. “The author of ‘Lovesick Blues’ is ...