Lovesick Blues: The Life of Hank Williams by Paul Hemphill Paperback Book

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Rent Lovesick Blues: The Life of Hank Williams

Author: Paul Hemphill

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Penguin USA

Published: Sep 2006

Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Entertainment & Performing Arts

Retail Price: $16.00

Pages: 224

Synopsis

Traces the life and career of the mid-twentieth-century country music star, from his sickly and fatherless childhood and musical education by an African-American street singer, to his early gigs in Depression-era rural honky-tonks and rise to Grand Ole Opry star, in an account that also discusses his struggles with alcoholism and early death. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

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