HANK WILLIAMS' Last Single Was Called 'I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive' and He Did Not #short

???? Hank Williams was the greatest country music songwriter who ever lived.

Born in a one-room Alabama shack in 1923, he taught himself guitar from a street musician named Rufus Payne and was performing on local radio by his early teens. By the time he was twenty-five he was the biggest star in country music.

He recorded fifty-five top ten singles. Songs like Your Cheatin' Heart, I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry and Cold Cold Heart became standards that every musician who came after him — Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, the Rolling Stones — acknowledged as foundational.

But behind the music was a man in constant pain. Born with an undiagnosed spinal condition, Hank Williams spent his adult life managing agony with alcohol and prescription drugs. In 1952 the Grand Ole Opry fired him — the biggest disgrace in country music history at the time.

His last single released while he was alive was titled I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive.

On the evening of December 31, 1952, Hank hired a seventeen-year-old college student named Charles Carr to drive him from Montgomery, Alabama to a New Year's Day concert in Canton, Ohio. Somewhere in the mountains of West Virginia, in the early hours of January 1, 1953, Hank Williams died in the back seat.

His driver didn't notice for hours.

When Carr stopped at a gas station in Oak Hill, West Virginia, he reached back to check on his passenger. Rigor mortis had already set in.

Hank Williams was twenty-nine years old.

Your Cheatin' Heart was released posthumously. It went to number one.

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