Hank Williams Snr

Hank Williams

Hank Williams

Hank Williams was born Hiriam Williams on the 17/09/1923 in Mount Olive, Butler County Alabama and died on New Years Day the 01/01/1953 in Oak West Virginia.

The first band Hank Williams created was The Drifting Cowboys and he joined local radio station WSFA in 1941 after learning his guitar skills from a blues artist Rufus Payne aka Tee Tot. 

After regularly singing songs from his idol Roy Acuff as well as others from the day, the station nicknamed him "The singing kid". 

As WW2 began some of the band members from "The Drifting Cowboys" left as they were conscripted to join the good fight, Hank had trouble recruiting replacements and WSFA eventually had enough and ended the contract when his drinking became too much.

Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash was born J.R. Cash he was born in Arkansas and relocated to Dyess with his family when he was 3. He started writing his songs at an early age (12) enthused by the country and gospel songs.

When he was in High School he got the chance to sing on radio station KLCN, he left school in 1950 and moved to Detroit where he worked in any auto factory for a short time. 

Cash enlisted in the Air Force on the 7th July 1950 and after basic training he was assigned to the 12th Radio Squadron Mobile of the U.S. Air Force Security Service in Landsberg Germany his main job being as a Morse Code operator intercepting Soviet transmissions.