Hank Williams

USA, 1937–1953

Founding father of modern country music whose plain-spoken confessional songwriting became a model far beyond the genre.

Influenced by

• The Carter Family
• Jimmie Rodgers

Influenced

• Buffalo Springfield
• Grateful Dead
• Creedence Clearwater Revival
• The Band
• Bob Dylan
• Jerry Lee Lewis
• Van Morrison
• Buddy Holly
• Johnny Cash
• Leonard Cohen
• Roy Orbison
• Dion
• Brenda Lee
• Gene Vincent
• Jackson Browne
• Linda Ronstadt
• Percy Sledge
• Cake