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YOUR CHEATIN' HEART A Biography of Hank Williams Chet Flippo When Hank Williams died in 1953 at the age of twenty-nine, from a lethal combination of alcohol and the pain killers he had used for years to ease the chronic pain of a congenital defect in the spine, he was already a legend. The first musician to lift country music out of the backwoods and into the popular music charts, he became the most influential country music singer and song-writer of the century. Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen have hailed him as a major influence, and his songs have been recorded by such diverse artists as Elvis Costello and The Carpenters. 256 pages / 16pp photos / 230 x 150mm ISBN 0 85965 232 7 ISBN13 978 0 85965 232 2 Paperback / UK £12.99 / NO US RIGHTS |