Grandpa stopped listening to country music when he returned home to Acadiana from Vietnam. But he never stopped singing. Subsequently, I was eighteen years old the first time I ever associated the ...

Spotify, however, tells a different tale. When it comes to most-streamed songs by Hank Williams, "Your Cheatin' Heart" comes ...

Modern-day radio stations may be more likely to play his son’s and grandson’s music, but for hardliners, there’s the original Hank Williams. For a man who didn’t live to see 30, Williams had a ...

Hank Williams set many a music-biz template. He was a “rollin’ stone” before Mick Jagger, and a guitar rogue before Keith Richards. A singer/songwriter before Bob Dylan. A successful talent who couldn ...

Not only is he the father of a great musical lineage, but Hank Williams, in a way, is the father of modern country music. Born on September 17, 1923, in Butler County, Alabama, Williams didn’t live a ...

There is no name in country music more legendary than Hank Williams. A singer/songwriter armed with a distinctly plucky tenor and a chest heavy with heartsick songs, Williams became a trailblazing ...

When the great country singer and composer Hank Williams died at age 29 in the backseat of a Cadillac on New Year’s Day 1953, he left behind a catalog of sleek, direct, endlessly coverable songs. He ...