Lovers of real country music attach deep reverence to this 1952 Cadillac, the car in which Hank Williams, Sr, died on New Year's Day, 1953. Hank was enroute to an appearance in Canton, Ohio, when the end came.
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A painful back condition had led him to a series of sketchy "doctors" who prescribed inappropriate medicines; a melancholic personality led him to the bottles that everyone knows hold more problems than solutions. And his son, Hank Jr, was born in the spotlight and found himself compared to his father, and struggled with the yoke of being a junior version of someone. No, he's not the songwriter his father was. Was there a Bill Shakespeare, Jr? We don't know for sure, but it would be unfair to expect anyone to write plays like the Bard. After some years of seeking his own spot, HWJr turned out to be very good as a singer, and a multi-talented musician, and yes, he'll pose for photos by this car, the machine in which his dad died, because he's in the same business that his dad was.
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