The handsome and impeccably dressed Hank Williams who wore a white cowboy hat and strummed a guitar into country music legend was a sad, lonely drunk off the stage, Alexander City residents who knew him said.
Williams stayed in Alex City about four months before his 1953 death and was arrested for public drunkenness and disorderly conduct. He also wrote the song “Kaw-Liga” during his stay here and the first draft was composed on a small tablet, according to Chester Parks, 77.
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