The debut of Hank Williams, Sr. at the Grand Ole Opry was a great triumph. The debut remains the most famous in the history of live country music performance program broadcast on WSN Nashville weekly since 1925. When Williams grabbed the microphone on June 11, 1949 on the Grand Ole Opry stage he gave such an electrifying performance that he had to take six encores.
When Williams first appeared on the Grand Ole Opry he was just 25 years old. He had been performing as a professional musician since he was 14. He went about playing all of