Happy New Year to you and yours and a particular welcome to any new readers who may not by familiar with the CCM New Years Day tradition dating back to 2014 when we acknowledge two of the greats who died on this day some 44 years apart.
Hank Williams, the Hillbilly Shakespeare, died on this day in 1953 aged just 29 whereas Townes Van Zandt was 52 when he died on New Year's Day 1997. Two troubled souls which perhaps contributed to the melancholy and honesty of their music.
Here are a couple of songs from both of them. I make no apologies if they have appeared here before.
Finally and again in keeping with tradition I'll get in first and note that it will, obviously, be downhill now on these pages for the rest of the year before anyone else does.