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Title: Hank Williams: Snapshots from the Lost Highway by Colin Escott, Kira Florita, Rick Bragg ISBN: 0-306-81176-6 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: 08 October, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Hank Williams " THE " Country & Western Legend
Comment: I have been an avid C&W fan since the late 40's;and although I have admired the many other great stars throughout the years ,none better defined this music than the the way Hank did. He did it all ,and in a large degree,by himself. In any area ,be it: songwriting,costumes,variety,gospel,heartbreak,lonlieness,love,inovation,tours,fighting the establishnent,personal life,longevity,an interresting personality,pop ularity,humility,you name it, he excelled and was the one who set the standard for the other stars to follow.I am sure most of them would agree.
If my memory serves me well ,Hank had several songs on the top 10 a year after his death; and we still see books like these coming out 50 years after his death. One can only imagine what he would have produced if he had lived a normal lifespan.
This book is excellent in every respect and also a great companion to Escott's other equally fine effort Hank Williams S - The Biography.If my memory serves me correctly,Hank had several songs in thev top 10 a year after his death and book of this quality still coming out 50 years after his death.
Rating: 5
Summary: Thorough Portrait Of A Music Great!
Comment: Although he never made it to 30 and died nearly a half-century ago, singer/songwriter Hank Williams continues to exert tremendous influence on all spheres of popular music. The country crooner also continues to invite biographical treatment. In 1998, music historian Escott (Hank Williams: A Biography) and Florita, former marketer of the Hank Williams catalog for Mercury Records Nashville, produced the Grammy-winning, ten-CD set The Complete Hank Williams. While working on that project, they amassed a huge number of photographs, documents, and published and unpublished song lyrics. That iconography forms the basis of Hank Williams: Snapshots from the Lost Highway, an appealing coffee-table book that is being cross-promoted with the tribute album, Timeless. Composed of captions by the authors and excerpts of interviews with Williams and his family and friends, the text is somewhat sparse but to the point and well written. Rick Bragg also contributes an elegant foreword. Koon's Hank Williams, So Lonesome was first published as Hank Williams: A Bio-Bibliography (Greenwood, 1993). This second take features expanded biographical coverage and important discussions of Williams's songs. Also significant are the author's attempts to separate the facts of Williams's life and work from the mythology of the musician and his thoughtful assessment of sources. In eliminating the reference-book qualities of the earlier Greenwood volume, Koons has made a significant contribution to Williams literature for fans and scholars. As a pair, these books nearly perfectly complement each other, but, unfortunately, neither contains a discography. In addition, the Escott and Florita volume lacks a bibliography (perfectly acceptable for a work of this kind), and the Koons book contains only a scaled-back one. Despite these shortcomings, both books avoid sensationalizing their complex subject and are highly recommended for public libraries and academic libraries with a popular culture focus
Rating: 5
Summary: Thorough Portrait Of A Music Great
Comment: In assembling 1998's 10-CD The Complete Hank Williams, Kira Florita and Colin Escott found far more material than their box set's book could contain. As a result, they put together this book, a behind-the-scenes look to hold his devotees spell-bound.
Fans who've read Escott's biography Hank Williams will treasure the new material: an extensive collection of informal photos, long-sealed court depositions, the accounting ledger with the $30,000 payoff to his naïve teenaged bride Billie Jean to abandon her claim to his estate, etc.
Among the handwritten copies of 30 unpublished songs and song fragments ("I Wish I Had A Dad," "The Broken Marriage") is "Then Came That Fatal Day" found on the floor of the Cadillac where he died en route to a December 31, 1952, concert. The newly revealed lyrics capture his love-hate relationship with his first wife, Audrey. Meanwhile, a draft of "Cold Cold Heart" accompanies Hank's and Audrey's conflicting accounts as to whether it was "inspired" by an abortion.
Numerous details emerge in the book, like Billie Jean's humor, and Hank's problems with excess measures in song lines. Letters from his publisher/co-author/editor Fred Rose (a recovered alcoholic who tried to curb Hank's substance abuse) find Rose trying to help the volatile marriage to Audrey while - like many others - harshly assessing her.
Audrey, who died in 1975, was an ambitious woman who attempted plenty of spin on her exhusband's legend, but she was probably right in saying, "If some woman, equally as strong as I am, had not come along, there never would have been a Hank Williams. He did not want to live when I met him."
It's an intriguing cast of characters, which build upon the already colorful Hank Williams legend. Check it out today!
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Title: Hank Williams: The Biography by Colin Escott ISBN: 0316249386 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 01 July, 1995 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone?: The Carter Family and Their Legacy in American Music by Charles Hirshberg, Mark Zwonitzer ISBN: 0684857634 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 10 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Hank Williams, So Lonesome by George William Koon, Bill Koon ISBN: 1578062837 Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi (Trd) Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Sing a Sad Song: The Life of Hank Williams by Roger M., Williams ISBN: 0252008618 Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: July, 1981 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title:In the Hank Williams Tradition ASIN: B0000640T6 Publisher: Kultur Pub. Date: 26 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $17.96 |
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