Hank Williams: The Biography
- ISBN-10
- 0316074632
- ISBN-13
- 9780316074636
- Series
- Hank Williams
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 320
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-05-30
- Publisher
- Back Bay Books
- Authors
- Colin Escott, George Merritt, William MacEwen
Description
- Long considered the last word on Hank Williams, this biography has remained continuously in print since its first publication in 1994.- This new edition has been completely updated and includes many previously unpublished photographs, as well as a complete catalog detailing all the songs Hank Williams ever wrote, even those he never recorded.- Colin Escott is codirector and cowriter of the forth-coming two-hour PBS/BBC television documentary on Hank Williams, set to broadcast in spring 2004, and coauthor of "Hank Williams: Snapshots from the Lost Highway.- HANK WILLIAMS was the third-prize winner of the prestigious Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award.
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- 2004
- 63 pages
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