Museum commemorates 70th anniversary of the death of Hank Williams

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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:

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sidebar: back when I was a Knoxvillian, the free paper, Metro Pulse, had an excellent “Secret History” column that detailed Hank’s last day, as it was Knoxville he departed from, on his way to wherever his next gig was I forget, when he died in the back seat. He had stayed at and then departed from the Andrew Johnson Hotel, a building now owned by the county for offices and where I met my probation officer for a while. I passed that building every day just before crossing the Gay St. Bridge o…

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