One troubled & lonely Alabama country singer, storyteller, and legendary songwriter used his writing of emotional convictions, by giving the world a series of musical hits like "Cold, Cold, Heart" , "Your Cheatin Heart", and "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" , garnering himself many nicknames like Mr. Lovesick Blues and The Hillbilly Shakespeare, country music legend. Hank Williams Sr. He recorded 35 singles that would reach the Top 10 of the Billboard Country & Western Best Sellers chart, including 11 that ranked number one, with a few of these songs releasing after his death. But one of these number one songs, that just so happened to be released a few days after his death, has an interesting tale of how it was written & conceived, within a small cabin, in the small lake town of Kowaliga, Alabama, just a few months before Hank would pass away in the back of his Cadillac in 1953, involving an ol wooden Indian whose heart was made of knotty pine.

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