Hank felt there was something bad around the corner.” “Tom puts across that impending sense of doom. “I think he had a profound sadness in him,” says Marc Abraham, writer and director of the new biopic. Within 48 hours of Williams’ prediction, he had met his maker, but the circumstances surrounding how he died have given rise to one of music history’s greatest debates. When new wife Billie Jean asked what was the matter, she claimed his reply was, “I think I see God comin’ down the road.” Hank Williams in 1948 Getty Images 30, 1952, the restless, rail-thin 29-year-old tossed and turned in bed at his home in Montgomery, Ala. It was something he apparently saw coming. The new biopic “I Saw the Light,” in theaters Friday, traces country legend Hank Williams’ struggles with alcohol, infidelity - and the weight of being one of the biggest music stars in the United States, following hits such as his cover of “Lovesick Blues” (1949) and his own “Why Don’t You Love Me” (1950).īut one big thing is left out of the movie: the singer’s mysterious death.
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