American Songwriter

On This Day in 1953, Hank Williams Knocked Himself Out of the No. 1 Spot With This Haunting Final Single

On this day in 1953, Hank Williams scored his first posthumous No. 1 country single with "I'll Never Get Out of This World ...
American Songwriter

On This Day in 1953, Hank Williams Died on the Way to a New Year’s Day Concert

On this day (January 1) in 1953, Hank Williams died on his way to a concert in Canton, Ohio at the age of 29. Williams’ recording career was short but impactful. More than seventy years after his ...
Country Living on MSN

The Opry honors Hank Williams, but does not reinstate him

The Opry was forced to address the controversial decision.
The Repository

72 years later, Hank Williams' death before Canton show still stings

CANTON – Pop culture history has called it "Concert That Never Was." But the show did go on – a pair of shows, for 4,444 people in two different audiences at a matinee and an evening performance. The ...