- Long considered the last word on Hank Williams, this biography has remained continuously in print since its first publication in 1994.- This new edition has b

Covering three generations of Hank Williams, Family Tradition is both unique and vast in scope. Beginning in the present day with Hank III – who gave the auth

It's 1948 in Rippling Creek, Louisiana, and Tate P. Ellerbee's new teacher has just given her class an assignment—learning the art of letter-writing. Luckily,

His formal interviews barely filled a page, and even those who claimed him as a friend admit they barely knew him.".

When Hank Williams died in 1953 at the age of twenty-nine, from a lethal combination of alcohol and the pain killers he had used for years to ease the chronic p