Hank Williams Album: “Honky Tonk Blues [DVD]”

This may be a good documentary, but if you're looking for footage of Hank singing, this dvd will probably only irritate you. Makes me darn near sociopathic. Even when they have video footage of a performance, they can't resist overdubbing everyone's opinions of his life. Idiots. Almost as bad is when they have the audio and video, and they don't bother to sync them even closely. I just want to see and hear Hank sing. This was frustrating.

from Billboard.com:

New Film Brings Hank Williams To Life

"Hank Williams: Honky Tonk Blues," the first documentary devoted to the late country music legend. The DVD is an expanded 81-minute version of the hour-long feature that will air as part of PBS's "American Masters" series beginning June 23.

The film was directed by Morgan Neville, co-director of last year's "American Masters" feature on Muddy Waters, and written and produced by Neville and Colin Escott, author of the definitive book "Hank Williams: The Biography," just issued in a revised edition.

Neville's documentary features never-before-seen color home movies of Williams, as well as rarely-seen kinescopes of his early '50s television appearances. Many hitherto unseen photographs are also utilized.

The film is distinguished by interviews with virtually every important surviving Williams family

Also on view are his son, country star Hank Williams, Jr., and grandson Hank III (who performs "Ramblin' Man"); his illegitimate daughter Jett Williams and stepdaughter Lycrecia Williams; pedal steel player Don Helms and several other members of Williams' band the Drifting Cowboys; his opening act and touring sidekick Big Bill Lister; honky-tonk vocalists Ray Price and Charlie Walker; and Louisiana Hayride announcer Frank Page.

This is the best documentary of Hank and it tells the truth.

It really was a lost highway he lived.

I gave it 4 stars out of 5.

The performances we see in the documentary is short cuts.

Why was not the whole performances included as bonusmaterial?

I would gladly paid more to get this included.

This is a fairly well produced look into the life of country musics greatest singer songwriter. There are so few videos of Hank williams and this DVD offers only a few tidbits. Some of the interviews with his old bandmates and his son and grandson are priceless. Hank truly was an American Master!

This very well made documentary is an interesting insight into the life of the enigmatic and brilliant star Hank Williams.. The balanced and intelligent film offers many revealing anecdotes about him [ by surviving members of his band, his 2nd wife and others who knew him well ], but one is still left with little understanding of the man. One thing that is clear is that Hank Williams was a complex genius,..surely one of the greatest songwriting talents the world has known.. Curiously there exist no filmed interviews of Hank, the little footage of him live, shows us how much of his soul he poured into his performances..I would rate this doco 5 stars...A memorable and moving portrait of a great star and a simple era that has now disappeared for ever..