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The city goes to the world of Polk Music lost one of its greatest performers, one of its greatest writers.

At 110 PM Eastern Standard Time, the Tell Type Machine and our newsroom here at WC KY began typing out a dispatch from Oak Hill

West Virginia.

That said Hillbilly singer and composer Hank Williams died early today, apparently of a heart attack,

while being driven to a radio singing date at Canton, Ohio.

Country music, the way God intended, pure, simple, no lights, no electronics, just three chords and the truth. Thus noted one fan of that legendary but

self-destructive singer Hank Williams the so-called hillbilly Shakespeare who

like so many other since from the world of Entertainment, went too soon, dying of a drug

and alcohol-induced heart attack on New Year's Day, 1953.

He was 29.

Throughout that brutally abbreviated career, this fragile young man from Alabama wrote and recorded

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