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Presents a portrait of the "father of country music," as Hank Williams is often called. Details the years of struggling, his drinking bouts, the breakthrough to success, his womanizing, his failed marriages, and his death. The thirteen songs presented in this set, reflections of his life experiences, were recorded between 1946 and 1952. Also includes rare excerpts of Hank himself talking.
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"In his brief life, Hank Williams created one of the defining bodies of American music. Songs such as 'Your cheatin' heart, ' 'Hey, good lookin', ' and 'Jambalaya' sold millions of records and became the model for virtually all the country music that followed. But by the time of his death at age twenty-nine, Williams had drunk and drugged and philandered his way through two messy marriages and out of his headline spot on the Grand Ole Opry. Even though...