Hank Williams has written plenty of tunes covered by jazz artists over the years. Hank Williams was a great singer-songwriter who forged his own brand of honky-tonk music from a variety of influences: ...

Jan. 3—LUMBERTON — OBIE Award winner Jason Petty brings "Hank and My Honky Tonk Heroes" to the Carolina Civic Center in downtown Lumberton on Feb. 3. The show is a celebration of a musician known as ...

Hank Williams cast a shadow that even 100 years later still enlightens the soul with the darkened beauty of his lyrical masterpieces. From behind the plow seated on a tractor with his grandpa in ...

Jeannie Seely was a 12-year-old girl in rural Pennsylvania when she first heard Kitty Wells‘ song “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels.” It was 1952, and Wells’ unlikely hit was climbing the ...

A string of hits that included “Honky Tonkin’,” “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry,” “Mansion on the Hill,” “Cold, Cold Heart,” “I Can’t Help It (If I’m Still in Love with You),” “Honky Tonk Blues,” ...