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I saw the light : the story of Hank Williams / Colin Escott with George Merritt and William MacEwen.

by Escott, Colin.

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Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2015.

781.642092 W723e

Williams, Hank, 1923-1953.

Country musicians -- United States -- Biography.

9780316315050 (pbk)

Alternate title:

Hank Williams : the biography

Back Bay paperback media tie-in ed.

ix, 374 p., 16 unnumbered p. of plates : ill., map ; 22 cm.

Revised edition originally published in trade paperback by Back Bay Books under the title Hank Williams: the biography, April 2004.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-359), songography (p. 307-325), discography (p. 327-348) and index.

"The book that inspired the major motion picture I Saw the Light. In his brief life, Hank Williams created one of the defining bodies of American music. Songs such as 'Your Cheatin' Heart,''Hey, Good Lookin',' and 'Jambalaya'sold millions of records and became the model for virtually all country music that followed. But by the time of his death at age twenty-nine, Williams had drunk and drugged and philandered his way through two messy marriages and out of his headline spot on the Grand Ole Opry. Even though he was country music's top seller, toward the end he was so famously unreliable that he was lucky to get a booking in a beer hall. Colin Escott's enthralling, definitive biograph -- now the basis of the major motion picture I Saw the Light -- vividly details the singer's stunning rise and his spectacular decline, revealing much that was previously unknown or hidden about the life of this country music legend."--Publisher.

Merritt, George.

MacEwen, William.

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