With alcohol he mixed pills, stimulants and sedatives. He had a spinal disorder that was getting worse, despite surgery. It was said that he was always in pain from his back. Sometimes on stage he'd be drunk and belligerent. He went back to playing high school gyms and honky-tonks. He had been fired from the Grand Ole Opry - they couldn't count on him to show up.
The news that Hank Williams had died was tragic but not surprising. "They came into the service station, asked where the hospital was at, and they said, 'It's around the corner,' and they just came around and went up to the hospital." "The chauffeurs told me that they pulled into the Skyline Drive-in, which is about two miles from here, to get out and stretch their legs and all, and that's when they discovered that Hank was dead," Tyree recalls. He took care of Hank Williams' body that day in 1953. Joe Tyree of Tyree Funeral Home in the town of Oak Hill, West Virginia. He'd move sexually and the women loved it.
One promoter said, "He had the black, piercing eyes," and he'd pick somebody out in the audience. People say it was a thrill to see him on stage. The other classics came soon: "I Can't Help It If I'm Still In Love With You," "Hey, Good Lookin'," "You Win Again," "Your Cheatin' Heart," "Jambalaya." He started a band, went on the radio stations, played the bars and the county fairs, and made it to the Grand Ole Opry in 1949, arriving as a star with the song "Lovesick Blues." He learned to play the blues from a black street singer named Rufus Payne. Hank Williams was eight years old when his mother gave him a guitar. There is an electric guitar and steel guitar and fiddle, but for two minutes and 45 seconds, the song's intensity comes simply from Hank Williams' voice and his words.
It was recorded in Cincinnati on the afternoon of August 30th, 1949. Williams once told Ralph Gleason of the San Francisco Chronicle that "a song ain't nothin' in the world but a story just wrote with music to it." The events of Hank Williams' death tell the story of his life, and one of his songs, "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry," is part of that "story wrote with music to it." He had heart problems brought on by alcoholism and drug addiction.
He was found dead in the backseat of his sky-blue Cadillac early in the morning of New Year's Day in 1953. Hank Williams was born in Alabama in 1923, and he died in West Virginia when he was 29 years old.
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