Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: A & E Home Video
• VHS Release Date: February 7, 2000
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0767010302
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #411,355 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

" In his all-too-short six-year career, he sent three dozen songs to the top of the charts and practically invented the Nashville singer-songwriter. But the man who transformed country music died unexpectedly at the age of 29. Very few figures in the history of modern music can stand alongside Hank Williams. His meteoric career changed the landscape of country music forever, and his tragic death spawned a cottage industry of legend that obscures the truth about the backwoods troubadour to this day. HANK WILLIAMS explores the troubled times and treasured legacy of this storied singer. While his songs are revered and recorded today, his life reads like a soap opera, with a domineering mother, bouts with alcoholism and a stormy marriage. In this illuminating portrait, hear the seminal singer perform some of his most famous songs, and listen as his son, singer Hank Williams Jr., country legends Marty Stuart and Billy Walker, and friends Merle Kilgore and Don Helms remember the short-lived superstar. From Alabama to the Grand Old Opry and on into legend, this is the story of Hank Williams."

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hank Williams, February 23, 2001

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"cwilliamsjr" (NJ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Biography: Hank Williams - Lonesome [VHS] (VHS Tape)

If you like Hank Williams or are just interested in country music's history than this is the movie your looking for. With a very informative biography of Hank and his journey to stardom to his tragic death at the age of 29.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE BEST HANK WILLIAMS VIDEO AVAILABLE, February 19, 2004

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Gerald L. Russell (Knoxville, TN USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Biography: Hank Williams - Lonesome [VHS] (VHS Tape)

You can buy videos featuring impersonations of Hank and videos featuring current country singers honoring Hank. If you look around, you can even find the motion picture of Hank's life from the 1960s. I have them all. And, as entertaining as the latter is, this is the best Hank video available for most people. It features segments from Hank's rare TV appearances and many photos of Hank you've never seen, along with appearances by people who knew Hank. It's strung together in the form of a sixty-minute biography and gives lots of new material about Hank's early career. Leave it up to A & E Biography to put together a top-notch biography like this.