Charles Carr, Driver for Hank Williams&#; Last Ride Dies at 77
One of the last man to see country music legend Hank Williams alive, is now dead.
Charles Carr, the young driver hired to take Hank Williams from Montgomery, AL to a show in Canton, OH, died after a brief illness at his home in Montgomery. He was years-old.
On January 1st , Hank Williams was scheduled to perform a New Year&#;s show in Canton, OH. Because of bad weather, he couldn’t fly as planned, and hired Charles Carr, a freshman college student at the time, to drive him in his powder blue Cadillac. Hank suffered from chronic back problems, and had injected himself with morphine during the trip from Knoxville, TN and also was drinking alcohol. Hank Williams died of heart failure sometime that night with varying accounts of exactly where and when, though a gas station in Oak Hill, WV is given credit as Hank’s final destination. Hank was
The story of Hank&#;s final fateful trip was recently made into a movie called TheLast Ride, A Story of Hank Williams, with the part of Charles Carr scripted as Silas Combs, and played by actor Jesse James. The film was not meant to be
How did country music star Hank Williams really die?
The new biopic “I Saw the Light,” in theaters Friday, traces country legend Hank Williams’ struggles with alcohol, infidelity — and the weight of being one of the biggest music stars in the United States, following hits such as his cover of “Lovesick Blues” () and his own “Why Don’t You Love Me” ().
But one big thing is left out of the movie: the singer’s mysterious death. It was something he apparently saw coming. On the evening of Dec. 30, , the restless, rail-thin year-old tossed and turned in bed at his home in Montgomery, Ala. When new wife Billie Jean asked what was the matter, she claimed his reply was, “I think I see God comin’ down the road.”
Within 48 hours of Williams’ prediction, he had met his maker, but the circumstances surrounding how he died have given rise to one of music history’s greatest debates.
“I think he had a profound sadness in him,” says Marc Abraham, writer and director of the new biopic. “Tom [Hiddleston, the actor portraying Williams] puts across that impending sense of doom. Hank felt there was something bad around the corner.”
There is a framework of events that is largely agreed up
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Way back in , college diploma in hand, I was barely making a living by driving a delivery car in Austin. I saw and experienced a lot of the city I would not have otherwise, including an old honky-tonk called the Skyline Club on the north side of town. At the time, I knew nothing of its history, certainly not that it was the site of Hank Williams’ last public performance. This is made more meaningful in that it occurred 10 days after I was born, on December 9,
Countless articles and books—I just finished one—have been written about the life and music of Williams, who took on the alter ego of “Luke the Drifter.” Since I do not fancy myself a music writer, I will not try to duplicate any of that. I will merely say that his status as an icon in country music is well deserved. Some of the tunes he wrote and sang have a timeless quality to them. A criminally short list would include “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry,” “I Can’t Help It If I’m Still in Love with You,” “I Saw the Light,” “Settin’ the Woods on Fire” and “Jambalaya.”
Williams, a poor hillbilly from Alabama, had a thick southern accent. For this reason alone, some people may regard him as uncool
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Who Was Hank Williams?
Hank Williams is considered one of the most popular American country music singer/songwriters with songs like "Cold, Cold Heart," "Your Cheatin' Heart," "Hey, Good Lookin'" and "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive." He died of a heart attack at the age of 29 in in the backseat of his Cadillac.
Early Years
Widely considered country music's first superstar, Hiram "Hank" Williams was born September 17, , in Mount Olive, Alabama. Cut from rural stock, Williams, the third child of Lon and Lillie Williams, grew up in a household that never had much money. His father worked as a logger before entering the Veterans Administration hospital when young Hank was just six. Father and son rarely saw each other over the next decade, with Williams' mother, who ran rooming houses, moving the family to Greenville and later Montgomery, Alabama.
His childhood was also shaped by his spinal condition, spina bifida, which set him apart from other kids his age and fostered a sense of separation from the world around him.
The world he seemed to identify most with was the musical sounds that poured out
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