Mark Ribowsky: Hank: The Short Life and Long Country Road of Hank Williams
Hank: The Short Life and Long Country Road of Hank Williams
Buch
- LIVERIGHT PUB CORP, 11/2017
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, ,
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781631493379
- Bestellnummer: 6347061
- Umfang: 512 Seiten
- Gewicht: 399 g
- Maße: 203 x 137 mm
- Stärke: 33 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 7.11.2017
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
After he died in the back seat of a Cadillac at the age of twenty-nine, Hank Williams-a frail, flawed man who had become country music's first real star-instantly morphed into its first tragic martyr. Having hit the heights with simple songs of despair, depression and tainted love, he would become in death a template for the rock generation to follow.Mark Ribowsky weaves together the first fully realised biography of Williams in a generation. Examining his music while re-creating days and nights choked in booze and desperation, he traces the rise of this legend-from the dirt roads of Alabama to the immortal stage of the Grand Ole Opry and to a lonely end on New Year's Day, 1953. This original work uncovers the real Hank beneath the myths that have long enshrouded his legacy.