Paul Hemphill’s new Hank Williams biography, Lovesick Blues (Viking, $23.95), is partially a tribute to Hemphill’s late father, owner-operator Paul “Hemp” Hemphill. He listened to Hank in the late ...

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The life of Hank Williams is a strange one. On one hand, he’s one of the most important and influential country singers in history. On the other, there are persistent rumors about whether he wrote ...

Can you imagine Hank Williams at age 100? For most of us, it’s mighty hard to do. We picture the legendary country artist as a young man, wearing a sharp suit and a cowboy hat, tapping his toe as he ...

Thor is a Norse god. Hank Williams is a country music god. That's about all the two larger-than-life figures have in common, or so it would seem. In 2014, their worlds seemed ready to collide in a ...