Rippling Creek, Louisiana, 1948: Tate writes to Hank Williams about her film-star mother and famous-photographer father until, gradually, she gets to the truth.
In Rippling Creek, Louisiana, in 1948, eleven-year-old Tate writes letters to her favorite country singer, sharing her dreams of becoming a singer and revealing that her mother is in prison.
Presents the life of country music singer Hank Williams beginning with his sickly childhood and moving toward his music education from a black street singer. Describes how he uses alcohol excessively to cope with his depression and broken relationships, and dies alone in his Cadillac on New Year's Day of 1959.
Autobiography of Hank Williams, Jr., a country music star who seemed destined to follow his famous father's ill-fated, tragic life until an accident changed his outlook on himself and the world.
