“I guess it’s like old times, but with a quicker way for people to get music. At the same time, I shouldn’t complain about how they get it or they got it as long as they paid for it. Knowing that those songs went gold and platinum mean that the fans are still buying my music and certain songs still resonate with the newer generation of fans.”Įven at 71 years old, the country music legend is still trucking on. feels nostalgia for the old times in country music. Just like the song “A Country Boy Can Survive,” Hank Williams Jr. “As my daughter, Holly told me “nobody is buying albums anymore,” so I guess when I got the plaques for selling a gold single and platinum single, it reminded me of the days when we would release singles and the record company would sell 45’s.” “Well, you know the business has changed so much,” Hank Williams Jr. certainly appreciated the old traditions of southern culture. Between hunting, fishing, and spitting tobacco, Hank Williams Jr. It glorifies the sufficiency of rural America, whether it’s from the West Virginia coal mines or under the western skies.
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The video tells the story of the song through a series of video clips between country folk and clips of the city. had a voice perfect for the song, especially switching between the low growl and the modulated howl. The driving drum also contributed to this gritty feeling of country pride. The classic country riff accompanied by pedal steel guitar gave it it’s country twang, however, some of the licks throughout the song give it more of a bluesy feel. The music of the song combined elements of old blues and classic country, bring with it a feeling of grit and strength. – “A Country Boy Can Survive” (Official Music Video) () (His 1984 single “All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight” was adapted into the theme song for the ultimate beer-can-crushing ritual: Monday Night Football.) But that brash bonhomie has always been tempered by a deep-seated Dixie pride, one that’s let successors like Kid Rock, Gretchen Wilson, and Hank Jr.’s own metal-loving son, Hank III, unapologetically flaunt their roots.Video can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Hank Williams, Jr. has come to embody Southern culture, amassing a deep repertoire of raucous, boogie-woogie chart-toppers that celebrate debauchery and survival below the Mason-Dixon line. A near-fatal hiking accident that same year prompted him to cover up his resulting facial scars with the beard, sunglasses, and cowboy hat that became his signature bad-boy look. “It was fun for the little boy to be doing Hank Williams,” he once said, “but it was hell for the man.” The Shreveport, Louisiana–born Williams found liberation in Southern rock: its renegade attitude inspired his 1975 outlaw-country bellwether Hank Williams Jr. At age eight, the boy nicknamed Bocephus was entrusted with keeping the legacy of his late father-country-music pioneer Hank Williams-alive through faithful cover renditions that endeared him to the country establishment but left him creatively stifled. was always intent on burning it down and building it anew.
He was born into the family business, but Hank Williams Jr.
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