Museum commemorates 70th anniversary of the death of Hank Williams

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Originally published at: Museum commemorates 70th anniversary of the death of Hank Williams | Boing Boing

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for your listening pleasure, The Austin Lounge Lizards!

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Lowbrow Art Godfather Robert Williams’ father was a good friend of Hank’s. Here a clip from a German doc where he talks about his friend:
https://youtu.be/YwqUEDTdQnQ

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@FloridaManJefe @Sketch_V
I had posted a link to a great article about that final car trip, and my tenuous connection to the hotel he left from, here some years back:

I thought I had a link there – found it after a good bit of hunting, the Metro Pulse is defunct and their official website is no longer served (wtf, this was a big deal paper in the online era!)

https://web.archive.org/web/20030311181259/http://www.metropulse.com/dir_zine/dir_2002/1250/t_cover.html

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Dude really was an amazing songwriter.

(Sucks that his son turned out to be such a nasty sack of shit.)

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