...crazy. When he sings;, 'I Laid My Mother Away,' he sees her a-laying right there in the coffin. . . . What he is singing is the hopes and prayers and dreams of what some call the common people." In truth, the things Williams sang about concern uncommon people too. You don't have to be...

...raised something like the way the hillbilly has knows what he is singing about and appreciates it. ... what he is singing is the hopes and prayers and dreams of what some call the common people." One of the common people himself, Hank never tried to be anything else. Not even when he had...

...forms. But in the raw form of country music, as Hank Williams pointed out: When a hillbilly sings... what he is singing is the hopes and prayers and dreams of what some call the common people. (Williams 272) This paper was originally prepared for presentation at the Political Economy...

...raised something like the way the hillbilly has knows what he is singing about and appreciates it. ... what he is singing is the hopes and prayers and dreams of what some call the common people. (Williams 1973, 107) No account of Fred Rose describes him as a "hillbilly," yet he understood...

...Williams, a "star," uses poetic language in a reproducible, electronic recording to express, as he put it, "the hopes and prayers and dreams of what some call the common people."18 We must take Williams' statement at face value; there is no hint of irony or paradox here....

...important influence on Springsteen, and although the country legend's music captured what he described as "the hopes and prayers and dreams of what some call the common people," it did not engage politics in any significant way.40 Williams's painful lyrics and mournful...

...country music much of its appeal. Perhaps Hank Williams has put it best: "When a hillbilly sings . . . what he is singing is the hopes and prayers and dreams of... the common people" (Williams 272). As country music became more popular, its foundations shifted. As...