It was on this day in 1953 that country music legend Hank Williams Sr. died in Oak Hill, West Virginia, on his way to a New Year's concert in Canton, Ohio. A blizzard had grounded all the airplanes in Nashville, and so he paid an 18-year-old kid to drive him in his new baby-blue Cadillac all the way to the venue. When the driver stopped at a gas station, the singer was found dead in the backseat. He was only 29 years old.
-The Writer's Almanac-
4 comments:
What? How? Shot? Heart?
Tell Me Gentle Reader
Gave me shivers Bondo. I love that twang of the late great Hank Williams Sr. R.I.P.
(drug/alcohol-related heart attack)
Cheese and Rice...WHAT was he drinking? (or "taking") [or both]
Talk about a candle burning out.
Only his autobiog knows for sure.
Anybody read it?
My Dad loved HW.
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