![]() Ribowsky's writing is always even and the book includes photographs of the Williams cast of characters. ![]() ![]() 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. Mark Ribowsky does an excellent job in recounting Hank Williams's sometimes insane life - do these things happen to real people - and in untangling the various relationships he had with others. 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. He goes so far as to call Hank's life story 'noirish. "A compassionate yet clear-eyed" ( Washington Post) portrait of country music's founding father and "Hillbilly King." The 2016 biography Hank by Mark Ribowsky paints a dark picture of the musician's short, alcoholic. ALSO BY MARK RIBOWSKY Hank: The Short Life and Long Country Road of Hank Williams Dreams to Remember: Otis Redding, Stax Records, and the Transformation of. Print Hank: The Short Life and Long Country Road of Hank Williams ![]()
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