PROGRAM NOTE
Hank Williams pioneered, and pretty much invented what we know today as country music. At the peak of his career, he was acknowledged to be the greatest singer-songwriter in American history. But after a meteoric rise to record and radio super-stardom in the late 1940s, the man had made a train wreck of his life. Inspired by the mysterious final days Hank¡¯s mercurial life, The Last Ride is the story of that final drive through the bleak Appalachian countryside of 1950s America. A lonely two-man odyssey; a boy coming of age, and a man leaving this world way before his time, a victim of his own abuses.