Late fan club President Ruth Wallace missed and honored at festival

The Hank Williams Festival was held in Georgiana this past weekend (June 10, 11, 12 2010). Festival co-founder and former International Fan Club President Ruth Wallace who died in December was honored and deeply missed by those involved. The local paper did an excellent story with a very nice photo of a presentation to a [...]

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Complete Mother’s Best will round out series

I was under a misapprehension over the past couple years of Mother’s Best Hank Williams releases. From earlier articles and releases, I had concluded that there would be a third box set this fall under roughly the same format as the first two. I wrote that several times, but I was wrong. The Complete Mother’s [...]

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Hank Williams Festival and International Fan Club events

Big weekend in the Hank Williams calendar  June 10 to 12 in Georgiana,  Butler County, Alabama. Its the Hank Williams Festival with participation by the Hank Williams Fan Club as well. I really appreciate that the Fan Club agreed to list a link to my little blog on its website. Rather than try to list events [...]

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Jett Williams accepts Hank Williams’ Pulitzer Citation at Columbia University

On May 24th Jett Williams accepted Hank Williams’ Pulitzer Prize Citation from the President of Columbia University in New York. Jett Williams was quoted on the All Access website: “Hank Williams has always been in a class all his own as the Shakespeare  of ‘the common man,’ whom he touched so deeply and for so long [...]

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