This is a lonely New Year’s Eve for Hank Williams as he spends it en route to a huge New Years Day concert in Ohio. Hank Williams died that night on the road. A fictional biography is shown in flashback.
Tag: country music
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The Blues Brothers
Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home where he and his brother Elwood were raised.
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Tender Mercies
Alchoholic former country singer Mac Sledge makes friends with a young widow and her son. The friendship enables him to find inspiration to resume his career.
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Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblers at The Ryman
At the Ryman is a 1992 live album by Emmylou Harris and her then-newly formed acoustic backing band, The Nash Ramblers, recorded at the Ryman Auditorium, most famously known as the onetime home of the Grand Ole Opry. This video includes interviews with the artists and live performances from the album.
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The Thing Called Love
A group of newcomers to the country music business seek love and stardom.
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Johnny Cash – Manhattan Center
Johnny Cash, Manhattan Center (1994). Folsom Prison Blues, Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down, Ring of Fire, I Walk the Line, Delia’s Gone, The Beast in Me, Drive On, The Man Who Couldn’t Cry, Thirteen, Tennessee Stud, Big River, (Ghost) Riders in the Sky, Orange Blossom Special, Let the Train Blow the Whistle
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Gordy
A talking pig named Gordy becomes involved in a quest to save his family from the slaughterhouse.
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O Brother, Where Art Thou?
In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them.
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Ray
Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the Southern musical circuit, the soulful singer gained a reputation and then exploded with worldwide fame when he pioneered coupling gospel and country together.
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Walk the Line
A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash’s life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins.