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...when Hank Williams died at the age of 27 in the back seat of one of his Cadillacs that December night in 1954, heading down a desolate stretch of U.S. Route 60 for one more gig, the whole nation mourned this strange Alabaman whose country standards like "Jambalaya," "Your Cheatin' Heart," and "Lonesome Me" have entered the pop pantheon. Not that long, because down in Memphis Elvis Presley was recording at Sun and rockabilly was on the rise. But Hank Williams had earned himself a place in American music, and as the son he had named after himself grew...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Waylon, Willie and Hank Jr. | 3/3/1978 | See Source »

Hank Williams, Jr. was barely two years old on the December night his father died in the back seat of a Cadillac in southern West Virginia, minutes after finishing his last gig. Williams pere casts an awesome shadow over country music--"Jambalaya," "Hey Good Lookin'" and "Your Cheatin' Heart" have entered the pantheon of American popular music...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Brand New Country Star | 4/10/1976 | See Source »

Older men, with guitars slung over their suitcoats, they made very fine country and blues. Soothing, mellow music, like "Your Cheatin' Heart," and "Make the World Go Away." The candidate hadn't come yet, and Sam was doing his genial best to set the mood...

Author: By Michael J. Barrett, | Title: Wallace in Boston | 10/10/1968 | See Source »

...Country Club, e) "Cheatin' Charlie" (the "Boxer Gunsel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: BLACK QUESTIONS FOR WHITEY | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

...Your Cheatin' Heart, like many another mediocre film biography, threatens a legend with oblivion. Based on the life of Singer Hank Williams, Heart throbs to the proper words and music but misses the chaotic inner rhythm of a man who rose from boyhood poverty in Alabama to become the idolized author of such country-and-western hits as Jambalaya, Cold, Cold Heart, and the movie's title tune. Williams lived hard, worked hard and drank hard until the January day in 1953 when he leaned back in his white Cadillac and died of a heart attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hillbilly Shakespeare | 6/4/1965 | See Source »

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