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DLH Big Bill Lister 7-15-01 Transcript.pdf
Interview with Big Bill Lister (1923-2009), recorded by Darwin Lee Hill, July 15, 2001. Texas-born Big Bill Lister was a singer, songwriter, guitarist, Capitol recording artist, and close associate of Hank Williams, with whom he toured and…

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DLH : Braxton Schuffert Transcript.pdf
Interview with Braxton Schuffert (1916–2013), recorded by Darwin Lee Hill, September 1, 2001.Singer, songwriter, and guitarist Braxton Gordon Schuffert – best known as one of Hank Williams’s earliest friends, mentors, and bandmates – was an…

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DLH Don Helms Transcript.pdf
Interview with Don Helms (1927-2008), recorded by Darwin Lee Hill, March 2, 2002. In 1943, at the age of seveneteen, steel guitarist Don Helms joined the band of an up-and-coming Hank Williams, performing dates across south Alabama as a member of…

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Interview with Felton Pruett.pdf
Interview with Felton Pruett (1928-1918), recorded by Darwin Lee Hill, August 29, 2003. Born in Many, Louisiana, steel guitarist Felton Pruett (1928-2018) played the Louisiana Hayride from 1948 to 1960, the entire run of the influential country…

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DLH Jett Williams Transcript.pdf
Interview with Jett Williams (b. 1953), recorded by Darwin Lee Hill, July 27, 2002. Born Antha Belle Jett on January 6, 1953 — just five days after the death of her father — Jett Williams is the daughter of Hank Williams and Bobbie Jett. She was…

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DLH Lum York Transcript.pdf
Interview with Lum York (1918-2004), recorded by Darwin Lee Hill, December 5, 2003.Born in Elmore, Alabama, just north of Montgomery, William Herbert “Lum” York worked off and on, from 1944 to 1949, as “bass fiddler” and comedian in Hank Williams’s…

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Darwin Lee Hill, host of Darwin Lee's Real Hillbilly Music Show. Photo by Chas Gibson, 2009. From the collection of Darwin Lee Hill.Browse all available Darwin Lee Hill interviews here, and be on the lookout for many more to come on this site.
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