Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,898 - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,898 - Lawyers, Guns & Money

This is the grave of Lum York. Born in 1918 in Elmore, Alabama, York grew up there and started playing bass in country bands. There’s not really that much to say about York except for one thing and that thing matters–he was Hank Williams’ bass player. That was not an easy gig because Hank Williams may have been a genius, but he was absolutely one of the greatest disasters of a human being in history, though country musicians tended to group at t…