Don Helms, was the last surviving member of Hank Williams' band, the Drifting Cowboys, and played at the country music titan's side for the better part of a decade, from 1943 until Williams' death at ...

An architect of the honky-tonk flavor that would come to define country music in the late 20th century, Hank Williams didn’t do it alone. Backed by his Drifting Cowboys band, Williams relied on the ...

Don Helms, 81, the steel guitarist who became one of country music's most influential musicians through his association with singer-composer Hank Williams in the 1940s and early 1950s, died Aug. 11 at ...

How many tears have been spilled during the playing of "Your Cheatin' Heart?" Maybe the better question is: How many teaspoons are in the ocean? Hank Williams' quivery vocal—a moon calf that can ...

Helms obituary: The obituary of steel guitar player Don Helms in Thursday’s California section stated that the Hank Williams recordings featuring Helms included “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry.” Steel ...