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COUNTRY MUSIC NEWS - Thursday, April 3, 2008
*----------- TEST YOUR COUNTRY MUSIC KNOWLEDGE -----------*
Q. What is Faith's first name?
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+----- TODAY IN COUNTRY MUSIC HISTORY -----+
1920 Country music film producer Al Gannaway born
1928 Country Music Hall of Fame member Don Gibson born
in Shelby, N.C.
1942 Billy Joe Royal born in Valdosta, Ga.
1959 Bluegrass singer-songwriter Earl Taylor appeared
at Carnegie Hall in New York City
1975 Emmylou Harris's Hot Band debuted in San Francisco
1972 Jack Drake, noted Nashville session bass player, died
1993 Bluegrass singer-songwriter Red Allen died at age 63
1948 The Louisiana Hayride premiered on radio station KWKH
in Shreveport, La.
1964 The Statler Brothers made their recording debut with
"The Wreck of the Old '97"
1956 Elvis Presley appeared on The Milton Berle Show
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* NOW A LOOK AT COUNTRY MUSIC & THE PEOPLE MAKING IT TODAY *
The Entire Williams Clan's Story Is on Display
Hank Williams Sr.Fifty-five years after his untimely death
at age 29, Hank Williams' legend continues to grow. Now he
and his legacy are celebrated in an extensive new exhibit
at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville.
Family Tradition: The Williams Family Legacy also is the
first comprehensive presentation of the entire Williams
family.
Besides Williams, the exhibit highlights his first wife
Audrey, daughter Jett Williams, stepdaughter Lycrecia
Williams Hoover, son Hank Williams Jr., along with Hank
Jr.'s daughters Holly and Hilary and son Shelton, better
known as Hank Williams III.
For the first time ever, all members of the family made
personal items available for the Hall of Fame to show.
Exhibit curators Carolyn Tate, vice president for museum
services, and writer/editor Michael McCall, said planning
began three years ago after initial talks with Hank. Jr.
"He is a born curator and historian," said Tate. "And he
loves to tell stories." Added McCall, "We focus on the
family ties and the drama in this family."
The exhibit also includes footage of a recent interview
with Hank Jr. in which he waxes rhapsodic about his love
of history and his extensive gun and cannon collection.
The large family scrapbooks -- large leather-bound items
measuring about 2 feet by 3 feet -- have never been shown
before. "Great big family," said Tate, "great big story,
great big scrapbooks."
Personal family items are too numerous to catalog, but
they include flashy boots and Nudie suits from all the
performing Williamses, guitars, guns, Hank III's skate-
board and his famous duct-taped boots.
Artifacts from Hank and Audrey's home on Franklin Road
in Nashville include his liquor cabinet, the family's
black-and-white Capehart-Farnsworth TV, Audrey's desk
and typewriter, Hank's Bible, his cinnamon-orange silk
pajamas, his fishing reel and his Nudie-designed wallet
and hand-tooled briefcase.
There's also Williams' treasured main guitar, a 1944
Martin D-28 with ebony fretboard and diamond-shaped
inlays. It is on loan from his son, and this marks
the first time it has been displayed in public.
Especially noteworthy is the reproduction of the note
that was found in Hank's right hand when he died. No
one knows whether it was actually a note or scribbled
song lyrics. It reads, "We met, we lived, and dear we
loved, then comes that fatal day, the love that felt
so dear fades far away. Tonight love hathe [sic] one
alone and lonesome, all that I could sing, I you you
[sic] still and always will, but that's the poison we
have to pay."
Beyond reminding the world of the Williams family's
musical legacy, Family Tradition personalizes all the
family members in ways that museums seldom do. Through
more than 200 personal heirlooms, artifacts, family
recollections and extensive interactive displays, the
visitor can enter the Williams' world and experience
what life has been like for this remarkable family.
The exhibit will run through the end of 2009.
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+--- COUNTRY STARS NEW ALBUM ---+
Montgomery Gentry Records New Album in Memphis
Montgomery Gentry has finished recording its upcoming
album, Back When I Knew It All, at Ardent Studios in
Memphis, Tenn. It is scheduled for a June 10 release
on Columbia Nashville. Produced by Blake Chancey, the
album features guest appearances by Toby Keith and
Five for Fighting's John Ondrasik. Other artists who
have recorded at the Ardent Studios include Led
Zeppelin, Bob Dylan and B.B. King.
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