Song about hank williams

[Richard Paul]

Name of song and artist that includes these words?     thumbing my way to nashville with my guitar on my back when a stranger pulled up beside me in an antique cadilac he was dressed like 1950  said its a long way to nashville would you like a ride boy can you make folks feel what you feel inside have you paid your dues can you moan the blues can you make that guitar sing cause if your headed for big star fame let me tell you its a long long ride?

[Clanad]

The Ride, by Hank Williams, Jr.

[andy hughes]

I don't know the song, but it would appear that the story refers to Hank Williams' death, from a combination of drink and drug abuse.

Hank Williams' alcoholism was caused by almost constant physical pain, the result of being born with a strain of spina bifida - unknown in the 1950's. It created a downward spiral in his career, as his drinking caused him to miss many concert dates, and his career was in serious decline.

Hank was due to play a couple of live dates - New Year's Eve and New Year's Day 1952. He lay down in the back of his Cadillac as his chauffeur drove the cross-country trip, and Hank tried to sleep, aided by a cocktail of illegal drugs and alcohol, the drugs supplied by a quack doctor Hank had hired to try and get some releif from his pain. When the chauffeur opened the door to tell Hank they had arrived, his employer was already dead and cold. He was 29 years old.