Traditional Hank Williams’ New Year’s Eve vigil continues in Montgomery

The Hank Williams Museum in Montgomery will  commemorate the New Years Day death of Hank Williams on Saturday December 31  and January 1st. The Saturday get together starts at 3pm at the Museum. At 11:30 the group will parade to the downtown Hank Williams’ statue for a ceremony. Then at 10am Sunday morning, the 59th [...]

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Jett Williams hosting Midnight Jamboree on WSM December 31

Hank Williams will be remembered in Nashville on the anniversary of his death. Jett Williams will host the Midnight Jamboree program from the Ernest Tubb Record Shop, Texas Troubadour Theatre. The program will be broadcast live on WSM. The program starts at midnight. January 1, is the 59th anniversary of Hank Williams’s death on New [...]

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Songwriter magazine examines ‘I’ll Never Get Out of this World Alive’

A fine, rich article on the Hank Williams Fred Rose composition ‘I’ll Never Get Out of this World Alive’. Davis Inman takes a pretty in-depth, scholarly look at Hank Williams’ personal situation when the song was recorded in June 1952 just six months from his death. And he examines, I think in a realistic manner, [...]

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A few more ‘Last Ride’ pictures

Thanks to Bill Jennings Jr for some more candid photos of the crew filming ‘The Last Ride’ in Benton Arkansas earlier this year.

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