With only one country music act so far on this year’s schedule, the Minnesota State Fair has upped the twang factor for 2025 in a big way with one of the genre’s most famous names: Hank Williams.

The songs that made Hank Williams, Jr., a Country Music Hall of ... Williams celebrated smoking, drinking, womanizing and boasting about it all, and never made cartoons out of rural America.

The State Fair continues to round out its 2025 Grandstand lineup, with country star Hank Williams Jr. as the latest ...

Joining Williams at the grandstand is singer Marty Stuart with his band The Fabulous Superlatives. Stuart, a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame and a five-time Grammy Award winner, has released ...

Seventy-eight years ago today, Hank Williams stepped into Castle Studio in Nashville to record his first songs for MGM ...

For a start, these first discs offer another side of Hank Williams ... jocular patter and easy demeanour, the songs betray the pain and beauty of it all. ROB HUGHES Had you been hauling out ...