Hank Williams Jr Album Cover Art Live on the Radio 1980

Randall Hank Williams (born May 26, 1949), meliorate known every bit Hank Williams Jr., is a Country Music artist. Patently, he's the son of the legendary Hank Williams. Defying the common pattern for sons of famous musicians, Williams Jr. managed to establish a career at least as fruitful as his male parent's, in terms of chart and sales success, but did so on his ain terms; whereas the elder Hank did so with pure honky tonk, Hank Jr. fused his father's music with Southern rock to create a sound and movement that few have equalled. His son Hank Three, girl Holly, and estranged half-sister Jett are country music artists in their own right.

Early on in his career, Hank Jr. sang most of his dad'southward material, but he eventually grew tired of imitating his father and decided to forge a sound of his own, taking cues from Southern rock. Not surprisingly, the demons hit him pretty hard as well — pills and booze nearly collection him to suicide in 1974, but he soon regrouped. In 1975, he fell 442 feet off a Montana mountain and seriously damaged his skull and face, re-emerging in 1977 after re-learning how to sing and talk. He also grew his trademark thick beard and began wearing large dark sunglasses to hide the visible scars from his injuries and surgery.

Although it took him a while to go his career back on runway, he bankrupt through again 1979, following in the tradition of outlaw singers such as Waylon Jennings. For the rest of his career, he would balance his rock and country sound, managing to include chest-chirapsia party anthems and sincere tributes to his father'south sound in equal measure. Although he never had a Top 10 hit after 1990, he continued to release the occasional album. His backing band, The Bama Band, has also charted a few solo singles.

In 2020, Hank Jr. was elected to the State Music Hall Of Fame, an honor many believe was long overdue.

Despite what you might have read on some websites, Hank Williams Jr. is non the father of Child Rock. This rumor was based on a misinterpretation of a lyric sung past Williams in his collaboration with the latter. Williams' real son, Hank III, addressed this rumor in his song "Not Everybody Likes Usa". He too is not related to Paramore singer Hayley Williams.

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Tropes about Hank Jr. himself:

• Kid Prodigy: Had his first hitting at xiv, and his first #1 state hit at 21 (which for a long time made him the youngest male artist to practise so).
• Generation Xerox: A very literal example at first, but eventually developed his own mode while still paying respect to his father.
• Gun Nut / Manly Men Can Chase: According to Kid Rock, Hank's biggest three passions are hunting, collecting guns, and making music.
• In the Claret: Became a country music superstar along with abusing alcohol and drugs similar his father. His song "Family Tradition" lampshades this

  I am very proud of my daddy's name
  Although his kind of music and mine own't exactly the aforementioned
  Stop and recall it over, put yourself in my position
  If I go stoned and sing all night long, it'south a family traditon

• Sunglasses at Dark: It's rare that you see Hank without sunglasses, regardless of what fourth dimension it is.
• Signature Way: He likes to write near the South, a lot. Usually in the form of thumping uptempos.

Tropes from/about Hank Jr.'due south music:

• Call-Dorsum: "All My Rowdy Friends Have Settled Down" is referenced in "All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight" and "Built-in to Boogie".
• Domestic Abuse: The third verse of "Attitude Aligning" mentions the narrator and his married woman chirapsia each other up.
• Early on Installment Weirdness: Just about annihilation before the tardily 70s — he hadn't even so establish his Southern rock and outlaw influences, so most of his earlier stuff is more mainstream countrypolitan and/or covers of his dad. Even though he had early #1 hits with "Eleven Roses" and "All for the Beloved of Sunshine," they are at total odds to his signature sound.
• Hand Cannon: Addressed in the showtime poetry of "I Got Rights":

  I said, "Gimme ane of them Smith and Wesson magnum 44s"

• Massive Multiplayer Crossover:
  • His cover of his father's "Mind Your Ain Business" had Reba McEntire, Tom Petty, Reverend Ike, and Willie Nelson.
  • His 1988 single "Young Land" featured several upward-and-comers and also-rans: Butch Baker, Steve Earle, Highway 101, Dana McVicker, Marty Stuart, Keith Whitley, and T. Graham Chocolate-brown. (Incidentally, Marty Stuart joined Hank Jr. every bit a 2020 Country Music Hall Of Fame inductee.)
• Off on a Technicality: Direct cited in "I Got Rights" about the murderer.

  I'll never forget the style he looked all through the trial
  He had his large-name lawyer and he had that smirky smiling
  Yeah, he got yous off on a technicality
  But you'll have to abound wings and fly to ever get away from me

• Posthumous Collaboration:
  • "At that place's a Tear in My Beer", which incorporated a vocal rail recorded by his male parent. The video digitally inserted Hank Jr. into a operation of Sr.'south with a rather obvious CGI-inserted mouth over Hank Sr'south to have him singing this song.
  • The entire album Three Hanks: Men with Broken Hearts, using Hank Sr.'s song tracks, and newly recorded vocals by Hank Jr. and Hank III.
• Repurposed Popular Song: "All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over This night" was repurposed by ABC for Monday Night Football.
• Rearrange the Vocal: "A Country Boy Can Survive". He released a Y2K version in late 1999 (featuring Chad Brock, John Anderson, ^note whose part was cut from the radio edit and George Jones), a re-written patriotic version ("America Will Survive") afterwards 9/11, and re-released the original recording in 2007.
• Sequel Song: "All My Rowdy Friends Take Settled Downwardly" begat "All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight" and its repurposed version for Monday Night Football.
• Vocalizer Proper name Drop: He namedrops his nickname, "Bocephus", in many of his songs. Example from "Built-in to Boogie": "Well, my name is Bocephus, I drink whiskey past the gallon."
• Spiritual Successor: He started out his career as i for his father. He even released some spoken-word pieces credited every bit Luke the Drifter, Jr.
• Song Evolution: His vocalism was a lot higher and smoother on his early "countrypolitan" textile.

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