"He was shy and gawky and got a Sears Silvertone guitar when he was 8 and

[henslee]

got some early tutoring in the blues from an old black street singer named Rufus Payne, known as Tee-Tot..."

from Garrison Keillor's current NYT review if a new book on Hank Williams.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/25/books/review/25keillor.html?8hpib

[BikeWriter]

1. I grew up listening to him on our old console tube radio. :-)

[henslee]

2. That is cool. What am American original. This excerpt breaks my heart..

"Skinny as a spider, suffering from chest pains, nearing impotence, incontinent to the point he was wetting his bed every night." In the midst of his miseries, he had a last grand hurrah at the Skyline Club in Austin, Tex., and sang every song he knew, some of them more than once, for three hours, no intermission. He stood on stage and wailed. People said it was the greatest thing they'd ever seen."

[BikeWriter]

3. He was one hundred percent entertainer!