Hank's Last Night

If only I was going to be in Knoxville over New Years.... Scott Miller is hosting a show called Hank's Last Night at the beautiful Tennessee Theatre on New Year's Eve. It's to honor the 50th anniversary of Hank Williams' death on New Year's Eve, 1953. Hank passed away in the back of a Cadillac somewhere on the road between Knoxville and Canton, OH.

From the "Hank Williams" entry by Stephen Thomas Erlewine on AllMusic.com:
Hank Williams was scheduled to play a concert in Canton, OH, on January 1, 1953. He was scheduled to fly out of Knoxville, TN, on New Year's Eve, but the weather was so bad he had to hire a chauffeur to drive him to Ohio in his new Cadillac. Before they left for Ohio, Williams was injected with two shots of the vitamin B-12 and morphine by a doctor. Williams got into the backseat of the Cadillac with a bottle of whiskey and the teenage chauffeur headed out for Canton. The driver was stopped for speeding when the policeman noticed that Williams looked like a dead man. Williams was taken to a West Virginian hospital and he was officially declared dead at 7:00 AM on January 1, 1953. Hank Williams had died in the back of the Cadillac, on his way to a concert. The last single released in his lifetime was "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive."

I'm really tempted to drive back out to my old hometown Knoxville on New Year's Eve to catch this show. Hmmm... any of my Knoxvegas compatriots going to be in town?