* BlackSheepHit: The name "Hank Williams" is synonymous with masterful songwriting and plainspoken singing, but his biggest hit was "Lovesick Blues" (16 weeks atop the country chart, as well as crossing over to the pop chart in an era when that was rare for a country song), which was a CoverVersion of a song written in 1922, before Williams was even born, and based around a Music/JimmieRodgers-like yodeling vocal gimmick.
* BreakthroughHit: "Move It On Over" was his first big hit on the country chart in 1947, and "Lovesick Blues" was his first of eleven #1 country hits two years later.
* CreatorCouple: Both of his wives, Audrey and Billie Jean, were part of his performing entourage (not at the same time, obviously), with Audrey playing bass and joining him for occasional duets, and some of the tension in their marriage came from Audrey wanting more of the spotlight; she's even been compared to [[Series/ILoveLucy Lucy Ricardo]] (by her grandson Music/HankWilliamsIII, no less). Notoriously, Hank Sr. married Billie Jean during one of his shows.
* TheMerch: Even before he began his recording career, he would sell booklets of his song lyrics at shows.
* ShortLivedBigImpact: One of the definitive examples. He recorded his first song when he was 23, and only recorded around 90 songs before he died at 29, but in those six years he basically reinvented the entire genre of CountryMusic, and is still regarded as one of its most important artists even more than a century after his birth.

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