Music Places: Hank Williams Museum

 I’m a huge Hank Williams fan. There were a couple of points in my life where I played Hank obsessively - around my 21st year in the golden age of CDs and a few years ago in the recent age of streaming and was able to listen to what had been harder to find recordings.

The Hank Williams Museum is in Montgomery, Alabama. I was passing through which means I didn’t have a ton of time to see everything in the town I would want to see. But I did have plenty of time to see the Museum. (There is another museum near his birthplace, which was slightly off route).

The Museum looks small but was fairly packed with stuff. There was a video room where Hank was playing. There were plenty of outfits (and related people’s outfits and instruments), gold records, a couple of written letters and a few pieces of the Williams household. Not weird to see borrowed items in a collection, but weird to see so much stuff that said “On loan from Hank Williams Jr”

The centerpiece is the blue Cadillac that was used in that now mythical drive from Knoxville to West Virginia on which Hank passed away. The staff was so friendly and it was really a cool site to see. They don’t allow pictures of the museum but they said every once awhile they will let someone take a picture, so they took one of me with it, if I put in my review to let everyone it is the Hank Williams Museum. I’m not a big influencer or anything, but I think spent enough time there and was talking enough about him and I'm guessing that is why. I already loved my visit, but really appreciate it.