Already writing songs at the age of 12, by the late 1940s, Williams was already becoming recognized as a songwriter and later debuted at the Grand Ole Opry in 1949, just three years before his death ...

There were pieces of songs, some completed and others unfinished, that filled notebooks Hank Williams would keep inside a brown leather satchel. In 2006, one of Williams’ notebooks of songs was found, ...

For Hank Williams to sing some of them songs at 7 in the morning (on the radio), it’s amazing. There is definitely some high nasally things, but I hear night and day differences between our voices.