Seventy-one years ago today, one of the most consequential songwriters in country music history died in Nashville.

Hank Williams set many a music-biz template. He was a “rollin’ stone” before Mick Jagger, and a guitar rogue before Keith Richards. A singer/songwriter before Bob Dylan. A successful talent who couldn ...

Spotify, however, tells a different tale. When it comes to most-streamed songs by Hank Williams, "Your Cheatin' Heart" comes ...

In the late 1940s, Hank Williams had an idea that was way ahead of its time — a social media experiment of sorts. Apparently, someone had suggested to the 26-year-old rising country-western ...

About 10 years ago, I made a pilgrimage to the Hank Williams Museum in Montgomery, Ala., about an hour’s drive from Butler County—where the country-music legend was born 100 years ago—and where ...

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, ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum will host a concert to commemorate Hank Williams’ 100th birthday, which was Sunday, September 17. The concert will be held at 3:30 p ...

Hank Williams, Jr. scored one of his most career-defining hits with “All My Rowdy Friends (Have Settled Down),” which topped ...

Loretta Lynn, Willie Nelson, and Garth Brooks are among the top country artists who have reshaped the genre over their illustrious careers.

Music historians believe the country music genre originated in the 1910s with Southern Appalachian fiddlers; however, it wasn’t until the following decade that artists started pressing commercial ...

Hank Williams' 100th birthday is Sept;. 17. To celebrate it, the Hank Williams Museum is bringing three concerts to the Davis Theatre on Sept. 15-17. Tickets to each concert day can be purchased ...