Hank Williams: Snapshots from the Lost Highway

He was just twenty-nine years old and had been a recording artist for less than six years when he died on New Year's Day 1953. Yet the songs Hank Williams left behind transformed him into a legend. But for all that Hank Williams's music seems to reveal, his fans have been given remarkably little of the man himself. Now Colin Escott and Kira Florita present a previously undiscovered wealth of private family snapshots, letters, unpublished interviews, and other ephemera-including his final lyric, found in the backseat of the car where he died. Most extraordinary, though, are the previously unseen handwritten lyrics-almost thirty songs altogether.