There were pieces of songs, some completed and others unfinished, that filled notebooks Hank Williams would keep inside a brown leather satchel. In 2006, one of Williams’ notebooks of songs was found, ...

Oct. 23—I recently ran across the name of a man identified as a country music songwriter, a man I I'd never heard of before named Paul Gilley, who purportedly wrote some of the classic country songs ...

Hank Williams set many a music-biz template. He was a “rollin’ stone” before Mick Jagger, and a guitar rogue before Keith Richards. A singer/songwriter before Bob Dylan. A successful talent who couldn ...

While there's no question that the late Hank Williams was one of the most beloved and critically acclaimed country artists of all time, back in November of 1951, he was just getting ready to make his ...

Hank Williams died all too soon, just over 70 years ago when he was only 29. But in those few years, he touched the world with songs like “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry,” “I Saw The Light,” “Cold Cold ...

Country legend Hank Williams has many enduring and influential songs to his credit, from “Hey, Good Lookin’” to “Honky Tonk Blues” “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry.” Now the Alabama native is earning new ...

On Jan. 3, 1953, the Montgomery Advertiser wrote the following about Hank Williams, who had died two days earlier during a car trip to Canton, Ohio: “He was racked by physical and emotional ...