The original country bad boy Hank Williams was born on September 17, 1923. Williams first began to make a name for himself playing guitar on the street outside Montgomery, Alabama’s WSFA radio studios when he was still a teenager, which eventually caught the attention of show producers, who frequently invited him in to perform on the air. By the time he was 16, Williams was fronting his own band, the Drifting Cowboys. Williams would go on to record 11 number one hits, among them “Lovesick Blues," "Long Gone Lonesome Blues" and "Why Don't You Love Me.” However, fame would also bring Williams an addiction to alcohol, and he would die in the back seat of a car at age 29 as he was being driven from Nashville, Tennessee to a concert. His cause of death was listed as heart failure, but it has been reported that he injected himself with morphine and vitamin B12 before getting in the car and that a number of empty beer cans were found in the back seat.