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...Hank, ne Hiram, Williams made what is widely considered to be the loveliest country music recorded in the '40s and early '50s, and had an unmatched ability to glory in sin on one song, repent on the next and carry off both with conviction and hangdog cool. There is no Hank Williams-size figure in country music today...
...Hank Williamses--Hank's son Hank Williams Jr., 52, and his boy Hank Williams III, 29--just released a pair of albums that are miles-apart takes on country and the family legacy. Hank Jr.'s Almeria Club Recordings is his 68th solo album. Hank III's Lovesick, Broke and Driftin' is only his second, but this...
...also identifies himself with some new influences. “As I’m getting older I’m getting closer to folk music and blues, and really simple forms of pop music...I keep listening to Hank Williams Records and some Mary J. Blige Records, R&B Records and they’re so simple and straightforward, and I keep wondering why can’t I write a song that’s just like, “Hi, I dig you, do you dig me? Let’s go get drunk...
...Current country stars such as Alan Jackson, Travis Tritt, Charlie Daniels, Steve Earle, even the already-long-on-legacy Hank Williams Jr., have all ridden the down-and-dirty-fication of country that Jennings, Nelson and Cash began, and all of them knew the value of a down-and-dirty persona to go with it. Waylon Jennings first and foremost...
...Grotowskis--three generations of Georgia penal officers named Buck (Peter Boyle), Hank (Billy Bob Thornton) and Sonny (Heath Ledger)--make for the most ornery family of Southern men since the Leatherface clan in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Most of them anti-black, all of them bitter, they need the face slap of redemption. It arrives in a comely package: Leticia (Halle Berry), a hapless mom who looks nifty in widow's weeds. She brings out the courtly gent in Hank and forces his ardor to do battle with his prejudices...