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9. Hank Williams
Some may have heard of him as “Luke the Drifter,” but to most he was known as Hank Williams. In 1937 his career began when he entered a talent show at the Empire Theater where he won first place for the grand prize of fifteen bucks. He’s remembered for songs such as “Mother is Gone” from 1959, “House Of Gold” from 1954 and “At The First Fall Of Snow” from 1958. Although Hank died in 1953 at 29 (some of his songs were released posthumously), Williams had lived a life that greatly influenced the future of country music.
