I’ll grant you that Hank Williams’ “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” is one of the best songs ever written, in country or any other genre. But I can’t help but wonder about that opening line: “Hear that ...

“Hear that lonesome whippoorwill/ He sounds too blue to fly/ The midnight train is whining low…” – Hank Williams Among the books I mean to get around to reading is Neil Ansell’s “The Edge of Silence: ...