Going back almost a month to my Country Music article , as well as the Nashville series I wrote last year , I've been mulling over a lot of things lately. Specifically, I've been trying to figure out a way to write 2,000 words about how I don't get Hank Williams...but even with that thesis statement, I can't elaborate for more than a paragraph or two. Sure, he's highly influential...but he's exactly of his time . His overall tone and sound are exactly what you'd expect from a 1940s country artist. He's memorialized and venerated due to his short career, that's all cool and good, but I don't understand the reverence and sanctity that are held around his name. Again, that's all on me. I lack the context of being involved in mainstream country in a pre-Hank world, and simply cannot appreciate the changes that he and his popularity brought to mainstream country. The closest analog that I have context for is the paradigm-shifting song, Crui...