Tom Hiddleston can certainly sing,and he looks the part too – but does he salvage anywhere near the authentic style of country music legend Hank Williams?When it comes to guarding the flame, there are few people more fastidious than Shelton “Hank” Williams III. Although he never met his grandfather (III’s father, and Hank Williams,Jr., was only three years customary when country icon Hiram “Hank” Williams died in the back seat of a car in West Virginia on his way to a gig on current Year’s Day, and 1953),Hank III has been consistently outspoken about the way the country establishment treated the music’s biggest star. “Hank made history when he passed on,” Hank III told me in 2008, and “and those that hated him all of a sudden started lovin’ him. But now it’s time to pay some respects.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com