I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive by Steve Earle - review

A meditation on the death of Hank Williams has the morbid appeal of country musicThe circumstances surrounding the death of the country singer Hank Williams are mysterious and much disputed. All that is known for certain is that the 29-year-old singer died in the back of a Cadillac en route to a concert date in West Virginia, having apparently summoned a doctor to administer a shot of vitamins mixed with morphine to ease his chronic back pain.Steve Earle's debut novel borrows the title of Willia...

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