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  "slug": "hank-williams",
  "name": "Hank Williams",
  "description": "Hank Williams appears 2 times in our Country and Sung to Someone lists, placing as high as No. 1. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.",
  "updated": "2026-08-30",
  "url": "https://waxonia.com/artist/hank-williams/",
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  "distinctRecordings": 1,
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    "first": 1949,
    "last": 1949
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      "title": "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry",
      "year": 1949,
      "label": "MGM",
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      "whyItMatters": "A whippoorwill, a falling star and a man who cannot say the thing directly. The most imitated lyric in American songwriting, and nobody has bettered it.",
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      "title": "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry",
      "year": 1949,
      "label": "MGM",
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "It reads as a nature poem — a whippoorwill, a falling star — right up to \"did you ever see a robin weep\". Every image in it is being handed to somebody. He is not describing loneliness; he is telling one person what it is doing to him.",
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