Living Proof

Living Proof
Author: Hank Williams, Jr.
Publisher: Dell Publishing Company
Total Pages: 252
Release: 1983-02-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780440052135

Family Tradition

Family Tradition
Author: Susan Masino
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2011-04-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1617131113

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 author unprecedented access – and time-traveling across the years, this examines just what kind of rebel mojo inspired this crazed family of country music, from Hank Sr. – often regarded as one of the most influential of American musicians – to Hank Jr., to this year's model, Hank III, who has somehow found a way to reconcile his legacy's deep-rooted twang and high-lonesome sound with particularly searing strains of punk and heavy metal, launching an all-out war with traditional Nashville in the process. Listen to Susan Masino live at Book Expo America on the BEA Podcast.

Hank Williams

Hank Williams
Author: William MacEwen
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2009-05-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0316074632

- 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print since its first publication in 1994.- This new edition has been completely updated and includes many previously unpublished photographs, as well as a complete catalog detailing all the songs Hank Williams ever wrote, even those he never recorded.- Colin Escott is codirector and cowriter of the forth-coming two-hour PBS/BBC television documentary on Hank Williams, set to broadcast in spring 2004, and coauthor of "Hank Williams: Snapshots from the Lost Highway.- HANK WILLIAMS was the third-prize winner of the prestigious Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award.

Sign of Life

Sign of Life
Author: Hilary Williams
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2010-11-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0306819414

Just after noon on a spring day in 2006, aspiring singer songwriter Hilary Williams and her sister Holly – the granddaughters of country legend Hank Williams and daughters of country music star Hank Williams Jr. – were driving through Mississippi down a rural stretch of Route 61 on their way to their grandfather’s funeral. Suddenly, the front wheel of the truck became caught in one of the many deep ruts and gravel lining the road, causing the vehicle and its passengers to flip over several times, crushing steel and breaking fragile bones as it crashed. Holly was lucky. She only suffered a broken wrist and cuts and bruises. But when the Jaws of Life finally pried Hilary's shattered body free of the wreckage, she was in shock and barely breathing.She had suffered two broken legs, several broken ribs, a ruptured colon, and bruised lungs. Her back, collarbone, tailbone, pelvis, and right femur were fractured. Her hips were crushed. It had taken nearly 30 minutes for an ambulance to arrive, and she had already lost a large amount of blood. Then, as EMTs scrambled to stabilize her in the middle of a muddy Mississippi field, Hilary Williams died. But that was only the beginning. This is a story of struggle and pain. But more so, it is a story of second chances, of love and resolve and recovery. When she was pulled back into life, Hilary’s world changed. It was the beginning of a long, courageous, and inspiring journey during which she would undergo twenty-three surgeries and years of therapy. Along the way, with her family at her side, Hilary has learned the meaning of strength, not only the strength to survive, but the strength to live with the legend, the talent, the burden, and the privilege of her place in country music’s most famous family.

Hank's Alabama Heroes

Hank's Alabama Heroes
Author: John L. Kilgore (Sr.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2013-08-30
Genre: Alabama
ISBN: 9781492138655

Hank's Alabama Heroes: A Civil War Family History Of Hank Williams Jr. is the second book written by part-time genealogist John L. Kilgore Sr. For many years Kilgore dug in to the family history of the country music legend and into the rich history of the Civil War, often at his request, to find out information about both the soldiers and the artifacts from that bloody era in American history. When Williams asked Kilgore to delve into his own family's involvement in that conflict, this book was the result: A succinct listing of Williams' kin that fought and died for their beliefs.

The Billboard Book of Top 40 Country Hits

The Billboard Book of Top 40 Country Hits
Author: Joel Whitburn
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
Total Pages: 614
Release: 2006
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780823082919

All the information since the earliest Billboard charts were originally compiled in 1942 is gathered into this one essential reference on country music that has been updated and expanded to capture today's top recording artists and their biggest songs. Original.

Living Proof

Living Proof
Author: Hank Williams (Jr.)
Publisher: Penguin Adult HC/TR
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1979
Genre: Country musicians
ISBN:

"Almost singlehandedly Hank Williams, Sr. changed country and western music into a national mania. When he died in 1953, he became a mythic figure. From the day his famous father died, Hank Junior was pushed to fill his father's shoes. By the time he was seven, he had been tutored by Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Brenda Lee. At the ripe old age of eight, he played his first show, singing his daddy's songs and telling his daddy's stories, and even then it was apparent he had inherited his father's musical genius. His rise to fame was spectacular: at eleven he premiered at the Grand Ole Opry and at fourteen was a hit on the Ed Sullivan Show. At nineteen Hank Junior was perched atop show business. But success too its toll. The demons of drugs and booze that had destroyed his father began to claim the son. Two marriages failed. Hostile audiences came to watch him forget lyrics or drop his guitar. The pressures were so enormous Hank Junior wanted to die. Then in 1975 Hank's death wish was almost granted when he slid five hundred feet down a mountain in the Rockies, landing head first on a boulder. Awaiting certain death in the snow, his face split apart, Hank had a powerful revelation-he wanted desperately to live, and amazingly de did. With a sense of wonder, Hank takes his survival as a sign he isn't to end up like his father."--Book jacket

The Best of Hank Williams, Jr

The Best of Hank Williams, Jr
Author: Hank Williams, Jr.
Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000-07
Genre: Country music
ISBN: 9780634013058

Folk/Country Guitar/Fretted Instrument Solos