He spoke our language and knew our secrets and made us feel better about our trouble and foibles.” Paul Hemphill put out a biography, “Lovesick Blues,” in 2005, Wayne Greenhaw published a fictionalized life in 2007, “King of Country,” and Rheta Grimsley Johnson used Hank and the love of Hank Williams’ music to bind together “Hank Hung the Moon and Warmed Our Cold, Cold Hearts,” her memoir of growing up in Monroeville and Montgomery.įor Johnson, as for many Alabamians, Hank was loved not “so much as a celebrity in our minds as a distant cousin or close friend who had died far too soon. Over the years I have read at least three books about Hank Williams by Alabamians. “Hank: The Short Life and Long Country Road of Hank Williams”
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