The first time Hank Williams appeared on The Grand Ole Opry, he brought down the house. On June 11, 1949, the lanky 25-year-old walked up to the microphone and began singing his No. 1 hit, "Lovesick Blues." As his daughter, Jett Williams, exclusively explained to Closer Weekly, "He was a guest, he didn’t have his band or anything." The Opry had resisted booking Hank, who already had a reputation for heavy drinking, but they couldn’t ignore the rising star. "He went on and he got six encores!" Jett marveled. "That became one of his signature songs. They called him the 'Lovesick Blues' boy." Jett, a singer-songwriter, doesn’t deny her father had demons — mostly brought on by the spina bifida he was born with that gave him lifelong back pain — but she recalled he had qualities not many saw. "A public perception of my dad would have him a very sorrowful,...
- 8/26/2018
- by Closer Staff
- Closer Weekly
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