Jett Williams – A Country Music Experience

She’s the lovechild – and only daughter – of late, great American country music icon Hank Williams and she’s coming to Rumours International on Saturday, November 4 at 2pm.

The product of a brief relationship between marriages with Hank and Nashville secretary Bobbie Webb Jett, Antha Belle Jett came into the world on January 6, 1953 – just five days after her father was found dead in the back seat of his 1952 baby blue Cadillac.

Jett’s story has all the ingredients of a great country song – but for her, it’s not just another rags-to-riches, orphan Annie saga – it’s real life.

Hank Williams, who’s widely recognised as one of the most significant and influential American singer-songwriters of the 20^th century, had a string of hits including Your Cheatin’ Heart, Kaw-Liga, Cold, Cold Heart, Move It On Over and Take These Chains From My Heart.

Ironically, among the tracks laid down at his final recording session in September 1952, just four months before his passing, was the hauntingly prophetic I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive.

Jett didn’t find out who her father was until the early 1980s, and a legal battle followed. To say Hank Williams Jr was not keen to welcome her to the family fold was somewhat of an understatement … but they have now since reconciled.

It wasn’t until 1985 that the courts recognised her as Hank’s only daughter – and with it granted her a 50 per cent share of his estate, from 1985, when her claim was lodged.

All the while, Jett pursued her ambition of becoming a country singer like her dad, and has performed with The Drifting Cowboys, a group led by original member Don Helms, on a number of occasions singing his songs.

In 1990, Jett published her biography, Ain’t Nothin’ As Sweet As My Baby – the title taken from the 1951 song written by her father and recorded by Carl Smith.

This is Jett’s first visit to Australia and she’s keen to meet fans of her father’s, and make some new friends and fans of her own.

Together with Australia’s own version of The Drifting Cowboys and presented by Terry Gordon OAM, Jett will sing all the songs Hank’s fans know and love as she completes her 12 Australian concert engagements, including her only festival appearance at the Clarence Valley Country Muster at Ulmarra, via Grafton, on October 29.

Tickets are now on sale from Rumours International. $59.90 Phone (07) 46 323 900 Doors Open 12:30pm Show starts 2:00pm.

Book early to avoid disappointment.

Doors open from 12:30pm