Saturday, July 11, 2009
Music news R.I.P. Atlanta writer Paul Hemphill
Posted by Chad Radford @ChadRad on Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 6:55 PM
Sad news came this morning when word spread that former AJC columnist and author of celebrated books The Nashville Sound and Lovesick Blues: The Life of Hank Williams, Paul Hemphill died after a long battle with cancer.
Hemphill died at the age of 73. He had carved out a prolific career writing about baseball, country music and the ups and downs of life as a Southerner in the shadow of the Civil Rghts era.
Read Mara Shalhoup's Fresh Loaf post, R.I.P. Atlanta writer Paul Hemphill.
(Photo by Jim Stawniak)
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