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Hank Williams' Big Impact on Country Music

Today's the anniversary of singer Hank Williams' birth. Williams' biographer Colin Escott talks about his 1994 book, "Hank Williams, The Biography."(Little Brown) He's also the author of "Good Rockin' Tonight: Sun Records & The Birth of Rock & Roll", and he produced and annotated the CD Collection "Hank Williams: The Original Singles Collection...Plus" (1990 Polygram Records release). This originally aired 9/6/94.

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Other segments from the episode on September 18, 1998

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, September 18, 1998: Interview with Jerry Stahl; Interview with Colin Escott; Review of the film "One True Thing."
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TV Writer Jerry Stahl on Kicking the Habit

Writer Jerry Stahl talks about his 1995 memoir "Permanent Midnight" (Warner Bros). Stahl was a successful journalist, a scriptwriter for cult film classics like "Cafe Flesh," and "Dr. Caligari," who went on to write for the hit TV shows "Moonlighting," "ALF" and "thirtysomething." Stahl was also a junkie. In his memoir he writes, "You might say that success ruined me. You might say I ruined success." "Permanent Midnight" is now a film starring Ben Stiller. It opens today. This originally aired 5/17/95.

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Hank Williams' Big Impact on Country Music

Writer Colin Escott talks about his new book, "Hank Williams, The Biography." He's also the author of "Good Rockin' Tonight: Sun Records & The Birth of Rock & Roll", and he produced and annotated the CD Collection "Hank Williams: The Original Singles Collection...Plus."

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The "Sun Sound."

Record producer and consultant Colin Escott. Escott's had a long association with Sun Records, the company responsible for many of the great acts from the dawn of rock and roll. Escott has a new book about Sun, called "Good Rockin' Tonight" (published by St. Martin's Press).

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Two New Items From Hank Williams

Williams is commonly considered the most important country music songwriter. Critic Ken Tucker has a review of a newly released CD of radio broadcasts and DVD of TV performances.

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