GRT LMHOF Hank Williams Jr Story

have you heard have you heard squeeze [Music] babies rocket shoes rock way out and whose have you heard the news baby's good rockin tonight you to be named anything of the year mother teacher athlete thank Y TAS Peschel person be a proof of that tonight are telling profile of the person who this year is country music's Entertainer of the Year Hank Williams jr. he's the son of the man who perhaps more than any other person gave country music its popular appeal you would hardly know it looking at him but at the age of 38 Hank Williams jr. has had enough pain to last him a lifetime a few years ago Bob Brown brought us his story and what with Hank jr. at a new height in his career we felt an encore was an order he is fascinated by guns as his father was hillbilly's to enemy zero fascinated by the cause-and-effect relationship between the parts load one skip one by knowing what will happen and why it will happen it's a feeling that was difficult to grasp when he was younger because he was swept up in an unpredictable form of cause and effect between the legend his father had left behind and its impact on his life [Music] Hank Williams jr. was raised to sing his father's songs honky-tonkin your cheatin heart jambalaya songs that still generate a half million dollars a year and royalty checks nearly 35 years after Hanks seniors death [Music] you know when Daddy died and the newspaper clipping just says hillbilly singer dies but that hillbilly left a hell of a mark with 11 million selling records between 1949 and 1953 Hank Williams gave country music a national voice but he was also addicted to alcohol and the pain-killing drugs he took because of a spinal defect and he died burned out at the age of 29 when Hank jr. was only three and a half [Music] Hank Williams heart failed on New Year's Day 1953 he was in the backseat of his Cadillac on his way to a singing date and when other country artists remembered him - Hank jr. it was with the almost religious belief that the qualities in Hanks seniors songs had come from his suffering it was always your daddy went through this stuff you'll have to go through it we have to go through these things you know and they were talking about booze and pills and expression you know that's a big sport to a lot of people that they and it was just drilled in [Music] it makes four wins fit me here and I just put daddy's record on the jukebox and get a nice fifth whiskey and a couple of Downers and sit there and and try to communicate with him [Music] hanck seniors troubles were recalled with chilling insight by a friend comedian many pearl who once rode in a car with him just to keep him sober between performances she tried to ease his nerves by urging him to sing a hymn called I saw the light and all of a sudden he stopped and looked at me and of course I never forget it because it was such a honey look he gave me and he said but that's just it many there ain't no life Hank Williams gravesite was dedicated in Montgomery Alabama a year and a half after his death the small boy in the Hat is Hank Williams jr. barely 5 years old he had already learned how to tip his hat to a crown as he rode in a parade after the dedication followed by a riderless horse representing the father he vaguely remembered [Music] along [Music] hag juniors mother the late Audrey Williams quickly became the caretaker of the Williams legend even though she'd been divorced from Hanks senior she groomed Hank jr. to take his place you were on the road you'd started before I was on the road when I was 8 when they came to see that eight-year-old a 10 year old it wasn't for his wonderful boys because he was a son of Hank Williams they expected the miracle that it happened to his father but I'm sure he felt when he'd come out on the stage that he was fighting phantom because he was fighting the image of his father right Hank Williams jr. but a 14 year old son was seeing some of his dad's country music kids let's have a fine welcome for this youngster [Music] but you regard me oh my god Hank jr. was a country singing Idol with a $300,000 a year recording contract by the time he was 14 most of his friends were adults his education came from a tutor he was put through the rites of passage on the road they would try to give me a drink you know when I was ten or twelve okay let's get a little Hank a drink here don't steal players everything did anybody ever tell you that you shouldn't do those things now the road wouldn't like that doctor up quit ever get to the point where you just couldn't function or we always able to oh yeah Hospital cerebral time oh yeah yeah all the way out the pills you know and whiskey and the whole thing that was really rolling in it [Music] I thought I was gonna die a couple of times and had scared the heck out of me [Music] audiences always knew whether he was doing his father's song the way they wanted to hear those and if he diverged too far from what hardcore fans expected he was often forced into exchanges with hecklers hey hey good-looking well I just I just sang it you know when you were so drunk you didn't hear it or I don't I'm gonna do this other one why you little so-and-so your daddy would have so that didn't go over too good so I put one of them you thought of him yeah in Salt Lake City I was like it boy that felt good it was driving me crazy not had a psychiatrist tell me that he said hey you've been taught you know live like act like be like saying like your dad your your lifestyles exactly like it is and you'll you're gonna be gone too and I said the hell with this I'm not putting up with this crap and I just left I said bye [Music] saying goodbye meant leaving Nashville moving to Coleman Alabama getting a new manager who knew nothing about the music industry and rearranging his life [Music] he was 26 years old and he decided to put the other styles of music he liked to use blues guitar southern rock and the PL styles of Ray Charles or Jerry Lee Lewis [Music] shake it going on down and my anymore you know you do it and it's true and you put it together to their failure or successive failures your fault success it's your fault that's a good feeling so you were on your way yeah it was really looking pretty good and I had gotten this part straight now you know whisking the drugs and the toning of hain't weed so I said it all need to make it this way I'm on Golding that male boss and get daddy's checks and unite and do a hell of a lot of hunting and fishing but then as he approached the age of which his father had died he narrowly escaped his own death Hank jr. had grown up loving the outdoors this trip took him into the Davis Mountains of West Texas on a deer hunt the hunt was staged from a small cabin campsite with a group of friends including Montana Rancher dick Willie Willie was also with Hank jr. in 1975 on a mountain climb in one of their favorite areas of Montana it was that climb that nearly killed Hank jr. we're crossing this snow field about 9,000 feet elevation and he slipped and fell in the neighborhood of five to seven hundred feet you want to stop so bad but you can't stop I'm going down through there and then I do herself sharp Boulder up in it and it did the job right right between the old face-first yeah yeah but the only thing he had left was the one I it literally tore his nose off drove it up through his head and blew a hole in his forehead which exposed the brain and as far as his lower part of his head his jaws teeth gums they were pretty much ruin you know the doctors said that you've been left here for something he said your brain was out and and penetrated with that rock a little whatever you want to be he said I suggest you follow it cause you talk about people say they've been born again he said believe me you were you realize how quick time can run out in the 12 years since the accident he has repeatedly undergone corrective surgery he still wears dark glasses to cover his eyes and his hat conceals a skin graft over a plate in his forehead the self-pity is gone he says so is his patience with trivial details and if he seems abrasive because of that he doesn't complain about what he lost or apologize for what he gained because he is Hank Williams son I got a shotgun arrival at a full wheel drive in a country boy can survive country folks can't buy there will be people who will come up to him as long as he lives and say I loved your father and I'm sure as he gets old and I Bob I think he made more and more cherish that because he will realize more and more what a a truly great heritage he had I think had charisma and an excitement that he brought in the stage with him it was just like a Christmas that's the part I had to grab ahold of the fun ain't we and then one without squirrel hunting and pulling jokes I'm just known about the other part too much [Music] [Music] there aren't any hecklers left in the concert halls and his father's legacy still runs through his music but it seems to belong to him now instead of owning him and by surviving it he learned to do one thing better than his father he learned how to outlive him [Music] why don't you [Music] that's quite a story how is he doing now he's doing great every album that he recorded since he recovered from the fall off the mountain has gone gold or platinum he's one of the top grossing concert acts of any type of artist in the country it shows that you got to do it your own way huh yeah and he's a happy man tonight he's back in Montana and out his window he can see the mountain that he fell off of but he says he's happy just being a Montana rancher Wow I am to say thank you Bob Corner Pat foods physically demanding stage shows and long and arduous studio recording sessions attest to his physical well-being Testaments to his musical wealthy are is more than 50 best-selling albums and his continuing ability to come up with musical surprises in every collection that's how we sell records my albums when you really break them down from the time I started doing music the way I wanted to they're not a lot different in the musical content they have old rock and roll all our Lynyrd Skynyrd Allman Brothers they have country whether it's a country boy can survive or this ain't dollars they have Dixieland the nice horns and the old jazz like ain't misbehavin and the next album is gonna have more surprises on it and as you said in a surprise [Music] that's a good feeling and a great old song [Music] [Music] [Applause] Hank's ability to make any music style his own his ability to master the nuances of country and jazz and rock make him the Renaissance man in today's overlapping amalgam of styles and influences in country and popular music I'm not gonna sit here and drop names on you but rock and real Hard Rock guys they love to do country things and country guys love to say hey watch I can do this you know it's the same thing the barriers are down and I don't like to get into the I'm not gonna limit myself and say I'm country and nothing else or I'm southern rock and I'm nothing else that's baloney I make music and I write music and I hope that you can join a song like an attitude adjustment or a very serious song and queen of my heart or major moves or whatever and I'd like to be remembered as a good songwriter and not well he was great bluegrass or he was this or that I don't want to be thought of like that I don't want to be thought of in the in the circle there's little danger of Hank Williams jr. not being remembered for his music awards for his virtuosity or another thing his first major Music Award from the Country Music Association came not for a record but for his music video the starfield all my rowdy friends are coming over tonight if friends are coming over tonight Hanks reaction oh it's nice you know but uh like I was talking about the ten thousand folks in Richmond in the snowstorm when the man tells you to stay home I can give you some of those Award winners book them in there and see how many they pull I'm like when Daddy told somebody one time I'm not gonna tell you his name he said stack your records up and I'll stack mine up and we'll see which one goes higher see ya bye I did my first show in 1957 I went on the road went on with eight years old turned 15 that's true and here comes Merle and I'm 14 or 15 and here's this guy that acts like he's 13 and he's early 30s oh brother hired mama I really like this Merle guy he's really funny and he would take my guitars and scratch the hell out of him out there and doing this Wolverton mountain nothing Kali kind of stretched that oh gee oh wait a baby alright so that's how it came about that was way back then and boy did we you know my father when he met my mother he changed the music world and me and Merle did a little changing too and we think about that guy every day it doesn't matter movie actors rock stars when they meet Merle Kilgore one time they say man that guy where's he at I hope he comes over tonight he's just he's one of a kind everybody on the road should have a Merle mother and daddy's house where I grew up is just down Franklin Road where all this started you know it's 1950 and there's nobody out there at that time that was way out in the country so when it rains you know here comes little Hank jr. and a little eight-year-old boy when it rains there's all these bullets laying there in these little tunnels and things and buttons and good gosh ice house I thought wow what is this not telling some guys that you know help me out and you know Battle of Nashville about blah blah blah then we go down the road toward Martinez and we go over there and here's here's half of a spur here's bullets here's the ramrod from a Springfield I said here give these to your daughters they take them to school today enough see this stuff is out there but if you if you aren't from that generation that was you know teenagers then that had access to all these places now all these huge million-dollar homes are sitting up there well that stuff is still in the yard oh yeah we dug up an artillery shell a 10-pound parrot one day under a lady's window right she said you mean I've been riding my riding lawnmower over that for four years I said yes ma'am she said dig them all up I really like to get their attention and they they think Oh God look at this guy guitar playing what's the heck does he know well what you all find today Oh 25 bullets and the button and here's the sewing kit and here's the cannon primer and we were in fact yesterday over here looking at some farm land and over that we have gotten permission and there was that was a really big battle at Fort Donelson and we've got about 500 acres - and we're gonna find something we're going to find something when we find one they camped over there and you that's how you find it you've got to know where they were at where they can't where they moving and then you got to know what you're what you're digging up instead of what's that that's no good well you just threw away the primer that fires the cannon I've seen lots of people that had those and they throw them by the tree and they they look like something that's trash and I said that's the primer that fires the cannon that's right here on your property so they say wow this is fun uh yeah it's fun now let me show you some real big boy toys cannons that shoot the boy dog of the Civil War United States Napoleon 12 pounder twelve hundred and twenty-seven pounds made in 1863 by Thomas J Reynold's the union inspector and there's no record this gun at all so who knows Forrest or somebody might have gone over and taken it from them that's what I like to think that's Rome Georgia I think there's like two I don't know there's that there's less than five of these on the planet I know that this is really really rare six pound bronze noble brothers made in Rome Georgia and the steam machine is still there this is a 10 pound parrot this thing is rifled like a rifle this is not smooth board you could put this through somebody's kitchen window a thousand yards out here Civil War had real accurate that's why it was so awful so I have Robert parrots appointment papers to West Point signed by John C Calhoun the Secretary of War and parrot with a really famous cannon inventor and a lot of the guys say those doggone appointment papers are worth more than that gun is so I think it's I think it's all good yeah this is a destructive thing this 10-pound parrot that they had about 60 of these lined up at the Battle of Stones River in Murfreesboro and of course southern boys went in there and went in there and went in there and I found five of these shells and this was a killing machine eighty-eight of that era is this 10 pound parrot you know Johnny Cash you talking about someone that loved history and we would get out love metal detecting and having he loved it when I was 15 years old he would come over to the house and I had a cannon in front yard and I mean a real cannon a real us three-inch rifle Civil War cannon and I grew up around all these guys doing these reenactments and stuff and so we put the charge in there and then you get a bunch of newspaper and then just pack it really hard with this newspaper so that when it goes off it'll just jump in the air and roll back like crazy wow you think it's gonna come apart you know man did he love that so we would do that the neighbor bring miss Williams hello this is mr. Akins next door would you mind asking Randall if he could points that barrel in a different direction all the books in my living room are on the floor thank you yeah we rattled Franklin Road me and Johnny let me tell you I was about 14 or 15 and I had plenty of powder and we loaded her up he was one of the main one of the only guys that really knows about this stuff like me with him you know they just he was from the right time the right era the one that I gave him was very special because it was it had it had been blown in half it was you that it was made in Nashville Confederate so it was really rare it had been blown in half and at Fort Donelson and it's still the front end of it was gone but you could tell what it was and it said in Nashville Tennessee Brennan and all that and he kept it over 20 years I was sitting here one morning and I got a call from John Carter Wow he said you know that a you know the cannon you gave dad he instructed me that you know if he passed that this is supposed to go back to you let me tell you folks I was speechless I said wow what yeah he won't that needs to go back to you I'm saying okay it's back there and it's all good well I was with my dear friend in Montana and his son I was going to the Yukon on a sheep hunt and in about a month or two this was this is August I was going on sheep hunt you know that when you're up in these mountains this is physical stuff we're not talking about hunting rabbits we're talking about being up at eight or nine thousand feet this ain't rabbit hunting so anyway we're climbing around and we're basically on top of the Idaho we're looking into salmon Idaho looks like little ants down there and probably took us Oh four hours to get to the summit so it's gonna take that long to get back down so we started down and there's a what you call a shoot in the high country and when I go out there just just imagine jumping out of an airplane it's gone and when I went out there the whole thing went so now I'm 500 and he said I looked like a rag doll seventeen operations from here right between the eyes to the back and pretty rough the doctor said look I worked on some people and mom that was really bad and he said man you I didn't give you a chance when they brought you in here it was not meant to be and when I wake up here June Carter and Johnny Cash they're there they covered 1,800 miles to the middle of nowhere in Montana to be there yeah they were really really really special just happy to get even better shootin Carter and Johnny Cash South America Hank Williams that's America I'm all about America baby I'm all about it Bobby rock which is Kid Rock to y'all and Bobby to me we were pretty good friend and he said you know I I would I would I wouldn't know who Hank Ballard was I don't I would have never known Hank Ballard I'd have never known this Fats Domino stuff you taught me all that stuff well he turned we swap blues guys all the time and he's talked he turned me on to this Reverend Charlie Jackson and he played that thing for me and I listened to that Wow and watched it he said is that not great and I said why don't you do that man you just got y'all to recut that he said I can't do it any better than him he said I can't do that he said but you can he said you taught know you Thunderhead hawkins this is right in your wheelhouse and ladies and gentlemen when we went in that studio on this CD we cut that song I'm pretty sure it with one cut pretty sure with one seven and a half minutes of having a ball and the band just finally laid their head back just you know I just kept on going it wasn't supposed to go that long and I added more to it so when I heard it Jesus got a hook in me I don't know I'm gonna get that dobro and you know I wrote whiskey bent and hell bounding them open keys and it just it's good lord and then prairie sisters did it come off I'm really proud of that that's how it came about and then when you look up Reverend Charlie Jackson Wow and see it just a great great American treasures what it is Reverend Charlie Jackson and proud to put him back up there well you're a little bitty boy that can barely touch the keys of your father's piano you know and my gosh your little over three when he passes away and I mean he's 29 years old well later on now it's the mid late 1950s and you're growing up there and you get a little older you start going boy you know listening to the radio hey I'm listening to Fats Domino man and all that stuff and well hear Jerry Lewis say he's over here and then here's Ray Charles in the early 60s when they did yeah you'll cheat oh good god and here's Carl Perkins everybody I better know how to play some instruments Jerry Lee Lewis Fats Domino Rachel Carl Perkins and on and on and on and on they all had a number ones on one of Daddy's song that's why you know Joe Stafford Perry Como Tony Bennett and believe me the list goes on all the way to 2015 so here I am in this wonderful situation you know well little Bocephus wants the boogie-woogie can you show him something you know you know I'm making the change the hate Union friends just been recorded I'm gonna do my music my way I'm not don't do that all you got to do is imitate don't do that just do your father stuff do that I'm not gonna do that it is wonderful to have an American anthem you know what she daddy had several of them I'm lucky I've had a couple of them that definitely one of them an American anthem a country boy can survive it was so easy it's what I did although we hear the guys house wrote it about 1 or 2 o'clock in the morning on Kentucky Lake about 20 miles and where we're sitting right now that's where it was written that's how we do it folks that's how we do it I don't go to writing sessions at 2 o'clock with 5 other people no know what a writing session you got to be me Oh y'all are just going to get together and write I don't think so I think how I do it I set up in the deer stand or on a boat in Florida I better write that down don't call me an icon whoops I better write this down I am a Williams you know that's how we do it I did my first show in 1957 I went on the road went on with eight years old turned 15 that's true and here comes Merle and I'm 14 or 15 and here's this guy that acts like he's 13 and he's early 30 oh brother hired mama I really like this Merle guy he's really funny and he would take my guitars and scratch the hell out of him out there and doing this Wolverton mountain that's a collie kind of stretch that oh gee oh way to baby alright so that's how it came about that was way back then and boy did we you know my father when he met my mother he changed the music world and me and Merle did a little changing too and we think about that guy every day it doesn't matter movie actors rock stars when they meet Merle Kilgore one time they say man that guy where's he at I hope he comes over tonight he's just uh he's one of a kind everybody on the road should have a Merle mother and daddy's house where I grew up is just down Franklin Road where all this started you know it's 1950 and there's nobody out there at that time that was way out in the country so when it rains still he's lined up at the Battle of Stones River in Murfreesboro and those poor southern boys went in there and went in there and went in there and I found five of these shells and this was a killing machine eighty-eight of that era is this 10 pound parrot you know Johnny Cash you talking about someone that loved history and we would get out love metal detecting and having he loved it when I was 15 years old he would come over to the house and had a cannon in front yard and I mean a real cannon a real us three-inch rifle Civil War cannon and I grew up around all these guys doing these reenactments and stuff and so we puts the charge in there and then you get a bunch of newspaper and then just pack it really hard with this newspaper so that when it goes off it'll just jump in the air and roll back like crazy wow you think it's gonna come apart you know man did he love that so we would do that the neighbor bring miss Williams hello here's the cannon primer and we were in fact yesterday over here looking at some farmland and over that we have gotten permission and there was that was a really big battle at Fort Donelson and we've got about 500 acres to and we're gonna find something we're going to find something when we find one they camped over there and you that's how you find it you've got to know where they were at where they can where they moving and then you gotta know what you're what you're digging up instead of what's that that's no good well you just threw away the primer that fires the cannon I've seen lots of people that had those and they throw them by the tree and they they look like something that's trash and I said that's the primer that fires the cannon that's right here on your property they say wow this is fun I said yeah it's fun now let me show you some real big boy toys cannons that shoot the boy dog of the Civil War United States Napoleon 12 pounder twelve hundred and twenty-seven pounds made in 1863 by Thomas J Reynold's the union inspector and there's no record of this gun at all so who knows Forrest or somebody might have gone over taking it from them that's what I like to think that's Rome Georgia I think there's like two I don't know there's there's less than five of these on the planet I know that this is really really rare six pound bronze noble brothers made in Rome Georgia and the steam machine is still there this is a 10 pound parrot this thing is rifled like a rifle this is not smooth board you could put this through somebody's kitchen window a thousand yards out here Civil War had real accurate that's why it was so awful so I have Robert parrots appointment papers to West Point signed by John C Calhoun the Secretary of War and parrot with a really famous cannon inventor and a lot of the guys say though doggone appointment papers are worth more than that gun is so I think it's I think it's all good yeah this was a destructive thing this 10-pound parrot that they had about six you know here comes little Hank jr. and a little eight-year-old boy when it rains there's all these bullets laying there in these little tunnels and things and buttons and good gosh that's how it started I thought wow what is this not found some guys that you know help me out and you know Battle of Nashville about blah blah blah then we go down the road toward Martinez and we go over there and here's here's half of a spur here's bullets here's the ramrod from a Springfield I said here give these to your daughter's they take them to school today enough see this stuff is out there but if you if you aren't from that generation that was you know teenagers then that had access to all these places now all these huge million-dollar homes are sitting up there well that stuff is still in the yard oh yeah we dug up an artillery shell a 10-pound parrot one day under a lady's window right she said you mean I've been riding my riding lawnmower over that for four years I said yes ma'am she said dig them all up I really like to get their attention and they they think Oh God look at this guy guitar playing what's the heck does he know on what y'all find today Oh 25 bullets and the button and here's the sewing kit and showing you what they do and how well they do it and it just only proves that the roots of country music are really flourishing in many directions first a registered nurse and her 22 year old daughter whose crystal-clear harmony made them stars overnight the judge Wynonna and Naomi a lady from spring town Oklahoma a third-generation rodeo performer who could ride a horse before she could walk Reba McEntire a Texas cattle rancher with a university degree in agriculture George Strait [Applause] [Music] waiter from North Carolina who carried trays cleared tables and sang to the customers Randy Travis and the son of a country music legend who had become a legend himself with a little help from his rowdy friends hey Williams junior [Music] and the winner is Hank Williams [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] yeah this is one visit one oboe severs been looking for I got to looking so long I thought I was gonna run out of glasses there for a few years it's a wonderful feeling for me to be hugging June Carter and Johnny Cash and Minnie Pearl and all that time of that we've known each other and they knew me back when and not everybody here did I must thank Warner Brothers I must thank the Academy my executive manager Merle Kilgore at all those rowdy friends they were talking about it show up at those auditoriums every night and I don't know what else to say except it's fantastic but I really was smart because I had a heck of a party last night and really blew it out now tonight I can just go to bed and feel good and not have to worry about thank you very much from Hank Williams jr. entertainers of the Year nominees and here is number five our video winner of the year mr. Hank Williams jr. [Applause] [Music] on the tech slam looking Louisiana's raised on camp alive [Music] [Applause] the boardwalk on how to get her in my bucket ah I had the old man on a road when I was 8 years old 15 I was stealing the show money to burn [Music] [Applause] [Music] hardik stuck his hand down [Music] [Applause] [Music] well I could go on singing that song all night but there's another song I wrote it tells how I really feel about the whole country music business and maybe what I can contribute we are young country [Music] the sons and the daughters [Music] [Applause] we don't change in spa [Music] [Applause] [Music] we like to hear [Applause] [Music] - I don't use [Music] if you don't mind thank you all young country and we like okay are you shaking people [Applause] it is not all we don't were changes five [Music] [Applause] [Music] Saturday we like away hey we like event hey with I'm ZZ Top we like country Oh [Music] to cause we like our country music mixed with some big city we are a country [Applause] [Music] memory [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] the winner is Hank Williams jr. [Applause] [Music] oh yeah oh great that's what it's all about it sure is I had an idea in the plane flying along with Merle one day and he said oh really that's a hot one you gotta make this video barrel and you know all the great people that we call I'm not gonna sit here and drop the 21 heavy names on everybody but I've got to thank all of them I got to thank Warner Brothers John here boys and real big people came together and you vent just got in there and had a good time and all my writer friends came over and I'll tell you something people that come up here and act real cool and get those awards I want to tell you it feels damn good I'm not I am so grateful I'm so very grateful for the opportunity to contribute some small part to this wonderful industry and to be here tonight I thank you all mom dad my two boys the apple of my eye [Applause] [Music] who is a legend and he's also the son of a legend ladies and gentlemen my friend mr. Hank way over to Tonya [Applause] [Music] Mothers Against Drunk drivers the Pope is against the pill the union's against the workers if they're working against their will the president's against the Congress the Senate is against the house people are against politicians I'm against cats in the house but I'm [Music] more happiness and or if you don't lie you can't you just let it turn in all the two band and down the line [Music] or nothing else [Music] the city is against the county the county is against the state the state is against the government and the highway still ain't pays the bankers against the farmer the farmers against the wall the doctor that gives me smokin and The Devil's against us all or you know use and turn it on down the line baby I'm nothing [Applause] the cops are gets the robbers the laws are insta cop's job this is against the system and so people are blowing their tops the horses against the automobile the bus says against the Train the Train is against the jumbo jet I'm against fishing in the rain [Music] two man [Music] being you [Music] and you don't you [Music] for a man to be Hank Williams it was fun for a little boy but it was Hale for a man [Music] to say the least Hank Williams jr. has a style all his own and that's precisely the reason he's one of the biggest country rock acts in the business with 13 gold albums and three platinum he can sell out Colosseum's that seat 15 thousands of his frenzied fans but the fact that this 37 year old musical powerhouse is even on stage at all is somewhat of a miracle Hank jr. is the only son of the biggest country music legend of all time Hank Williams and even the earliest pictures revealed that both Cephas as if Daddy nicknamed him was destined to be in the music business when Hank senior died at age 29 three year old Hank jr. was already being groomed to carry on the family tradition [Music] [Applause] [Music] peg performed his first concert at age 8 and throughout his teenage years he travelled the country with his father's band singing his father's music and even dressing just like his famous dad Hanks impersonation of his father was hugely successful but the illusion ended when Hank decided to sing his own style of music Hank talked about the joy and pain of those early years at his home in Paris Tennessee you were raised to be sort of a reincarnation of your father and you were put on the stage to sing his song yes yeah what did that do to you mentally I've gotten some pictures over just looking at while ago and of course I was a little boy an 8 10 12 14 15 16 and that's all I wanted to do you know I wanted to put on those boots and I wanted that hat and I wanted everything just like just like him but in the late teens and early 20s I didn't want to do that color one a little boy anymore and if I did something different boy that was bad you know when I started doing these things that I wanted to do I mean that's when he got kind of rough because I might play for 500 and 300 would leave you know they'd just walk out and was it so I just decided that's the way it's gonna be I said I'm gonna stay home and I'm gonna open the mailbox and I'm gonna pull Daddy's checks out and cash them and hunt and fish or I'm gonna go out and I'm gonna do my thing and make cut my music because I'm not gonna run around out here and bust my [Music] butt to be cussed and you know treated bad and all of us at I know do that it was fun for a little boy but it was hell for a man to be Hank Williams it was fun for a little boy but it was hell for a man I guess I win [Music] Hank made a lot of enemies when he abandoned his father's music for his own he thought about giving up the business but finally moved to Alabama and found acceptance in the southern rock scene but his personal life was a different story Hank was heavily into drugs alcohol and non-stop partying two marriages ended in divorce and one lonely night with a bottle of pills in hand Hank decided that life wasn't worth living is it really true that you tried to commit suicide yeah Oh bottle look like a mayonnaise jar yeah that's silly isn't it I had a Darrel McCall told me something that I'll never forgot he said you know I was having a divorce he said I think I think I know exactly what you should do he said you should kill yourself that's what you should do and then she'll that'll really fix her and then she'll be out spending all that money and she'll probably think about you every day say oh that poor Hank while she's out having a ball he said that's what you ought to be of course he was you know kidding me but yeah I got down and did that and they that was in a a cabin in Alabama and I just said well you know I got down in me in the bottom that's when me and this doctor got together right after that mm-hmm he said you've been talked to look like act like saying like be like your daddy from the word go look you've been taught all of that and he said and that's what's gonna happen you will be exactly like him except you'll be dead it may be at twenty six or seven instead of 29 he said won't that be nice you'll have him beat the music wasn't working the marriage was oh nothing no no you know my mother my wife my manager everybody was he's nuts you know and because he's not gonna be his daddy he's nuts you know what do you think he really wanted to die then uh well I did it you know if you you can get yourself down pretty low and you think back of how silly you must have looked when you would I do I think how stupid I must have looked when I was doing those things [Music] I swear I've never seen so much trouble [Music] not long after his suicide attempt Hank nearly lost his life again accidentally in 1975 on a mountain climbing expedition in Montana Hank lost his footing and plummeted 500 feet the damage to his face and skull was so severe that doctors predicted he would die rebuilding his life and career was the biggest challenge he had ever faced I was wondering what that the accident up on AJAX mountain had to do with a lot of what you are now of course that was a big change because I never thought I'd see again or or live number one they when I was still out of it then I didn't know if I'd see again if I could talk and you know all these operations and stuff if I could walk out on a stage and look at a girl or an audience or anything anymore it makes you appreciate life and it makes a lot of trivial things go way down the list you know did you make any kind of deals with God when you were laying on that mountain yeah I said I don't want to die lord I can't see much I can't feel much I don't think I can hardly talk at all the roof of my mouth most of my teeth is not there and I told you many times I never wanted to sing again and I think we've got a square deal I think the mixed up Hank probably died on that mountain and the person that got off of the mountain was pretty clear headed after that don't you it tends to do that there's a joke about that you know the greatest one of the most sobering things in the world is death that will sober you up so quick the Grim Reaper will get your attention [Music] hang purposely built this cabin out in the middle of nowhere it's one of the few places he doesn't have to worry about being recognized he enjoys making stewed from his catch of the day moose - that's what it is and spending several weeks a year just living the quiet life I mean they're strong as heck are these are real life surprisingly his living room window faces the mountain he nearly died on but nevertheless these mountains have a calming effect on Hank they're one of the stabilizing factors in an otherwise hectic life but me and Kenny Rogers are talking about it at the awards it's just kind of a clean-out you know I nearly got killed out here so you got to like it for some reason [Music] hmm another getaway is the 700-acre stretch of crime hunting and fishing land he owns here in Paris Tennessee Peng brings a lot of his famous friends out here to fish and swap stories he says it's a rare chance for them to be just regular guys and just like in Montana the scenery here inspires Hank he's written a lot of hits song sitting by this pond watch a deer go by snapping turtles wild turkeys and then go to the store and get an idea like all my rowdy friends are coming over tonight which was written right over here you're kidding most all of them written right on these little roads around here when you just get away from everything it clears your mind oh gosh yeah things start popping in to it I'm a firm believer in that [Music] I'll listen to the sound of the crickets on my back I like catching fish on a cane pole just about sundown time what kind of action country relax some people have and their articles have painted a picture of you being a little hard to get along with or something oh no you know think that way I can be I could be real hard to get along with I guarantee you but you know like grandpa Jones said I'm trying to think I can say it we were fishing out here he said well he said we don't we don't give any crap and take very little so you know if when I've got up a bunch of drunks crawling over the gate yeah I'm not I'm not mr. nice guy well you've been known to participate in a few wild escapades yourself I've thought about that a lot I went through that junk you know I'm had you go through all these crazy drummers and piano players and you know and you say hey well someone so broke the windows out of the bus oh really and he's you know thrown the television out of the room oh yeah well he can work somebody else then because this group they ain't doing them then them days are gone do the impressing and billboard and on stage enough this let's break all the TV sets or stuff of course Johnny Cash started that all anyway so we can blame it all on him actually hanket Johnny Cash had been best friends for years and cash showed up for the grand opening of the Hank Williams jr. family tradition Museum in Nashville on display is everything from the car that Hank senior died in to part of Hank Junior's vast gun collection after a tour you realize there's more to Hank Williams jr. than his famous image how did you get the image of being such a Hellraiser and such a wild man you are a lot I enjoyed it oh yeah I enjoyed myself enjoyed my line you know I had some extravagant parties and things in the in the early 70s but do you know what changed you from the drugs and the liquor to the hunting you got to have a hobby you got to cuz it's gonna get you one way or the other if your hobby is drugs you're gonna die but this hobby of night after night continuous party club club club let's go here let's go there you got to have a hobby did you know you're blowing your image because a lot of the fans who sit out there and watch you that are screaming for Hank you don't like to think that you do a lot of drugs that you go to these wild parties you hear women everywhere yeah that's part of the appeal mmm-hmm I don't hunt fish every single day now you know I can tell you that but you know you you just gotta you gotta have a happy I cannot imagine being you and looking back over everything that has happened to you in your life aren't you totally amazed at what you've accomplished I'm amazed as getting through all the junk yeah I'm amazed about that I imagine the best thing is knowing that you weren't crazy back that's a good thing yeah I think that's a good way to look at it I wasn't crazy after all nearly nearly we'd like to say a special thank you to Hank Williams jr. Gary Chapman Amy Grant and the Judds for allowing us a closer look into their lives of course our special to us because of their music but we've kind of grown fond of them because of the people that they are we hope you have too until next time I'm Laurie Ann crook thanks for watching flute his home town I bet he does that's Bedford Virginia population forty thousand five hundred the cornfield county sentiment the other night and there was this great big fat lady sitting right in front of me did you have to change seats oh no I can see all right she had a PhD yes yes that I've been relying on our next performer for many many years now Roy welcome my good friend in sickness in health and in this poverty and well mostly well Kilgore Bocephus your drummer is in trouble again oh great what do you do this time he robbed a telephone a telephone what he give too much I am I just got back from the best pleasure trip ever been on oh I like pleasure trips where'd you go I took my mother-in-law to the bus station [Music] you climbed miles beyond count the corns on your toes were aching and sore when you reach the top of Wolverton mountain who was there but Merle Kilgore why did you search the world over and I thought I'd found true love you man no red t1 gone that song was written by our special guest father who hears Hank Williams jr. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] all babe I hate to leave you where the train runs through your earth that old Waverly found but I'm coming back I will return woman you wait for me I'm bound to travel the u.s. they call the desert the thing often [Music] there and yeah [Music] I got a new song for all em old people up and down in the jar tonight lord I know the mornings are heaven they've been on the lonesome flight ah mo all depression people maybe no they took a mighty heavy load all the children the kinfolks cousins to still walking down Tobacco Road well it feels tell me about Hank Williams so they're clinging on to his fame I'm the same race I'm from the same place got the flame long from blood [Music] people talking down [Music] [Applause] [Music] he one-of-a-kind everybody in the road should have a morale [Music] over the hill that's in one place I won't go I still still out of work I don't do many show going to be private going to be real I feel [Music] thanks to old lady help me make it through the night blissful and I've been left [Music] [Laughter] [Music] in my country boy [Music] with a mere train the name is both sepals but I'm really [Music] movin no ladies and gentlemen I have a problem of a lot of imposters running around these united states from time to time if you read the paper so I had to think about it and write a song about that situation [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] I just came in here have whiskey and beer and say howdy to you all [Music] [Applause] you all with me Hank jr. you see [Applause] hat shades and beard and all [Applause] [Music] now I have heard [Applause] I've gotten the word about all these silly Impostors running around let me tell you something how they real look close they got no scars and they got no feel they don't know nothing about whiskey been inhale [Applause] now I'm looking for a lover [Applause] I come here to have fun my name is beau Cephas yeah [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is to get down [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] not everybody loves me but those who do will fight [Applause] right to the end cuz I got guitar friends from legendary Saturday night I learned to I play a little country rock Dixieland gospel and southern flute now I'm looking for a lover I come here to have some fun my name is Bocephus [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] all the backstage honey [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] dear or you did you are on my loan into these last beer I have shitty million tears [Music] [Music] keep drinking these tears will leave [Music] there's a deer my beer cause I'm crying for you dear [Music] it's [Music] keep drink me hold on [Music] [Applause] [Music] got me [Music] keep drinking Oh [Music] [Music] [Music] Kamala coda Hank Williams jr. about the movie coming out called country music on Broadway and plus all of the stars that we mentioned Hank's father the late Hank Williams this is one of the only films that was ever shot of him is in this movie so if you will be sure and go out and see this that's so wonderful thing we want you to be sure and go see it country music on Broadway now let's welcome back once again our guest today Hank Williams jr. anybody in the country here lately just about we're working pretty hard I was in Texas last Friday and flew in for a recording session with Connie Francis and you only do that we have to fly back after Texas and some more shows and then come y'all did an album didn't yes Connie Francis was right there mostly country standards good we've seen you on The Ed Sullivan Show the Jimmy Dean show and you do a great job over there glad to have you [Music] we feel crime [Music] your tears come down [Music] when you your tears come down you're toast [Music] you're cheap [Music] thank you hey Francis guests time on our program today and have we got one of the best I'm telling you what's young fella has making a great name for himself in the country music business just as his father did we're talking about none other than a young man by the name of Hank Williams jr. let's give him a hand everybody hey welcome to our show glad to be here chief say you know you and I work a lot together and so this is really nothing new to us is it no we we rolled rushing from way back in hey I want you to do I take what I want you to do I want you to do three or four songs that is a legend of the Hank Williams name and then I want you to do something different I'm gonna pull a surprise on you all right well I will do the three or four we'll make them good ones that I don't know about this well you dis Wade you go ahead and and I wonderful folks to hear all these great songs you got to sing for them then I've got a surprise all right all right here he is ladies and gentlemen Hank Williams jr. Jorma got to go me home my own we got here--oh bounded by my Swedish warned me oh my home son of a gun will hand troop on down on the bayou call this pineapple a gummy boat we don't see mama sheding Meal Time every time and be game Oh son of a gun have some fun on the fire [Music] [Applause] [Applause] - beautifly me my train is fine [Applause] I'm so from five this fire Paul stop back sir purple sky [Music] time under way you are behind so home good fine I'm some home shemar could cry [Music] [Music] [Applause] yeah Brady's hang out do is just some evil scheme man from your lonesome paste it's a soap [Music] what Cain real time for mine and millio cold cold heart before my time made your heart slightly blue and so my heart is bound for things I didn't do and word to say be closed here on time [Applause] [Music] real time Emillio cold cold cold cold ha let's see daddy's old fishing rod right over here yeah there's his hat he had his first the early picture you see of him when he signed with acuff-rose was that hat there there's one of his suits there's his tackle box his fishing stuff one of his guitars and lots of our show stuff in here of course that's talking shop for me so I like these things over here [Music] they have not seen Iran [Music] 1950 mercury that was in a garage in Long Island New York 41 Cadillac touring baby blue sedan I call that the born to boogie car really fun to ride 57 Oldsmobile super 88 continental kit double spots Van Halen was bidding on that one at the same time they let me have it and I think I'll give it back to them when I get tired of it 59 Cadillac Eldorado Seville a gentleman was leaving Reno Nevada in a tremendous hurry and was going through Jackson Montana and blew the engine and bought a car on the spot and this car was in a barn in Jackson Montana this is not only is it a 59 Cadillac Eldorado it's a Seville which has a completely different interior and well they made 812 of them that's all there is and the story is kind of neat I think he was definitely taking the money and running you know 47 Studebaker with in Louisiana 47 played on it listens got about 20,000 miles on it 55 white Buick Roadmaster I call this the fast Domino car and there's the ones that might follow their first tour tee and when they didn't have Jets and interstates that's a 46 Packard this blue one came from cutbank Montana on the Canadian border we totally restored it 41 for 49 Studebaker from the barn in Montana 65 Chevrolet this thing is a rocket I used to have a lot of fast cars back in high school of the 60s but that one I don't even need to be driving that one pretty hot came from a very prominent bootlegger in Kentucky this little gold one here fifty-eight Chevrolet Apache gold and white that was a special edition model so no one could steal it yet he had to hotwire it to get it going 55 Cadillac Coupe DeVille drove it to lots of studios lots of sessions this is kind of my baby this one here two-door because it reminds me of mother and daddy well that's the kind of cars that she always had she had the yellow ones he had the blue ones [Music] [Music] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] our Sun defenders and care this old black [Music] [Applause] [Laughter] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] well I came to the Kentucky Lake area when I was about 14 years old started fishing and you know living in a big mansion on Franklin Road and Hank and Audrey Williams house was not my lifestyle and it and it never has been from then to this day I don't live in big towns I live in Buckhannon Tennessee I live in wisdom Montana Corvallis Montana Troy Alabama my whole life has been in very small places so that when I leave the stage I can be out here on the lake or on the tractor you know running a bush out on tractors great therapy catching bluegills is great therapy and trying to out smart a wild turkey well I don't know if that's good therapy or not I think that'll put you in the nuthouse the pig in the ground and the beer on eyes that's this place right here the barbecue pits down there born to boogie was written here all my rowdy friends are coming over tonight was written here deals have been made here hunting of all types here you can squirrel hunt you can rabbit hunt you can hunt you can deer hunt wild turkeys fish see a lot of a lot of mother nature around this place [Music] but I think elbow grease and clean this up we put like a whole 24 hours and sit around and have a few libations all night and talk about cooking it which is just much fun it's cooking it it's called a Cajun microwave you know it's like my old song a country boy can survive this is the real Hank jr. the real Bocephus this and of course Montana which is a whole lot more the same and just different types of game in that area and so I go from Turtles and cottonmouth moccasins to grizzly bears and elk I make a change several times a year one environment to another and I set up here on the porch I got a steel settle wet of a wild boar about 400 yards over there on that hill and we sit up here with our old-time Montana Buffalo guns and shoot at it and try to hit it 16 years old he wrote his first song it was called standing in the shadows it was all about coming to terms with being the son of a country music legend well it's still a great song but today Hank jr. stands in nobody's shadow in 1987 and 1988 he was named CMA Entertainer of the Year and he's nominated for that award again tonight as far as legends are concerned history seems to be repeating itself here again is Hank Williams jr. [Music] [Applause] st. Peter give me cloud number nine until my daddy hey juniors on the line [Music] was the key [Music] [Music] [Music] help but wonder if he was still with us just what he was back singers and rocket roundel pain bill a million miles since I quit any issues yeah [Music] wanna shake the hand of the man in the mouth [Music] hey Sam Peter gimmick number nine [Music] blue [Music] [Music] [Music] we come from South Alabama to the promised land with a man [Music] [Applause] Hank Williams was really one of the first country musicians to write about everyday reality now there was a lot written about religion and church and so forth and and he did too but he broke that barrier by writing about move it on over a dog because I'm in trouble with the wife and when I get home she's gonna put me out in the dog house but nobody had written about things like that before that wasn't pretty and lovely that was a little humor about true everyday life [Music] a little dog called the big boy she told me once she told me twice I didn't take no get it all [Music] who don't call the hotdog too many told me not to mess around I don't let that deal go down cool it all over [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] Vidia [Music] there is a pretty good recipe to tour for five decades I got the recipe down well I mean I thought it was pretty amazing because when we were in Vegas you did a show and you flew to Montana to go elk hunting or something and we're back I don't think people realize the next knife you heard back on stage you'd float all the way to Montana T well I own of course it didn't I got the mule deer buck of a lifetime last Sunday in rain in the wind and snow and all climbing up and down Thursday Friday say four days soraa's heck I said well they're gonna have to I won't even be able to walk out on they're gonna think boy that poor guy is old he can't even walk to the mic I was so dadgum so I'm telling Matt the kind of country that will kill you I've already had two bad Mountain Falls one almost did kill but I got the deer of a lifetime but there's a whole lot of people and you know that do know that about me and people that own gun companies and scope companies my god congratulations but you know as far as the opening of the show a lot of the inner circle I mean when Eric saw that deer he says good gosh he said I'd love to be sore to water did that's what I do but you know it's kind of back to dad those many pearl told me said honey you are like talking to a ghost because he could have 10,000 people up there he didn't the case say anything about the music part he had to tell me his next story about his squirrel dog I'll be there in a minute you said you're exactly the same way you you spent some time training dogs mm-hmm my Labrador here and the hog dogs and the bear dogs yeah I've been a whole lot of yeah you really like prefer big-game hunting to bird hunting now don't you yeah but I like all it yeah but I like to take kids too mm-hmm show them the first Montana elk or the first bear they had a 23 year old Chuck him died I never had killed a really big very pretty happy young man pretty happy I bet yeah he was real happy and Eric Church gonna be the next one he said I said well here in mine it's about a record book and here's what I said you want to go in May he said I'm in I'm in so we'll be doing that this coming May of 16 if the good Lord is willing the creeks know rise the Eric will have himself a nice big old white ol bear there you go and I get the feeling that you got nothing left to prove but you still got a lot to say oh yeah what would inspires you now about writing a song you know my name is Williams and it takes me about five minutes when it comes there it is just bang and good god dad how'd you do that you know read it to Holly or what you were driving to the farm to feed the dogs and you wrote that yeah oh my god it is just like granddad so tell me about a song you got for the new album that you've written you're really excited about all of them I'll just call me Hank it's about time which is the title song that one's pretty crispy dress like an icon that when it'll make you smile when will make you smile and Wednesday album come out I think they said January 15 what do you think mr. kilgore be saying about alright brother brother how did you write that oh my what a wonderful idea brother I'm gonna get Scott and can and every and Robert beat every one of us and we're gonna go out we're gonna go out and visit old Marilyn believe me he he he really affects a lot of people in this absolutely listeners like you and me what a guy he wasn't all of William Morris you know no matter Kenny Chesney Kid Rock it don't matter they say oh my god I love that guy he would light up around oh yeah oh yeah he would light up a room yeah he left Oh Willie one time he said I wish I had a Merle ha ha ha I was y'all tomorrow yeah everything's good no matter what yeah since he's been gone he I know nothing could ever really take his place you guys were worked so well together but you know besides his memory is there something that inspires you now like he did and motivate you that way well you know it's just it's just natural you know happiness and your uh your family your kids and the support that this label has proven and this is you know I'm on I'm what you call a motivated icon and I'm on I'm on it baby I'm gonna rock it it's like I said yeah we're gonna do all your rap of the country but it ain't gonna be like Waylon this gonna be Bocephus Ty Lee he said of course it is you know the guy yesterday said God d'angelico you know you can spank the guitar pretty strong anyway it was one of the Cadillac three uh-huh and he said man this guitar wonderful he said you know none of the country guys you know they don't use a d'angelico I said I ain't one of the country guys house he looked at me I said no I'm not one of the country guys now you know this this is a Gary Rossington enjoy call Wales pupil he said say no more say no more say no more mmm and Reverend Billy oh yeah you know we did a whole tour together well they were wonderful yeah yeah they were they all went and saw him a couple of months ago here in town went and hung with billions st always calls me when they're in town they are and that's you know I've got a song about that on this album uh when I sang I feel Weiland is there with me toi and Ronnie - that's what the word says and that's what it means so we had a great great style what the Belle shake that thing about the bell of the way play those tubes and all and that bare finger yeah yeah and Billy's like that I'm oh well solutely he doesn't have a bunch of stompboxes and stuff you know he can doll it Marshall oh well when I cranked up my thing last night that last 10-second blow off on that song everybody knows where that came from I looked around and I just cranked both of them like Waylon used to say ha they're throwing babies in the air it's all good I love it - well Hank thanks for coming in don't worry out here very important fishing to do is easy absolutely you know my god fella hook in the pond throwing the hook in the water there you go but it's an old gospel blues I'll please check it out and my crazy sisters oh can almost see it I'm minutes long really yeah Jesus got a hook in me that's the name of it Wow cool please check it out we'll do partner check it all out looking forward to hearing [Music] I'm just the same a natural-born guitar ring kind of cleaner the sad old song Amaury walk the fan I'm a new note finder but my name's a reminder I'm a bluesman that's already gone so I started drinking some things that messed up my thank you I was sure Singh [Music] when you came along I was alone in the hotline not too much left inside but she changed all that one night she [Music] sang me this song hey baby I love you hey baby I need you hey baby you ain't got to prove to me you're some kind of macho with the film onto your running through the dark nights let me shine some love life [Music] bluesman [Music] I got so sick from speed all the stuff they said I was needing if I was to keep please all of my fan I'm not cuffed on dirt road I got sued over no show but you came and took all that all this hey baby I love you too hey baby I need you maybe I who gets five [Applause] of this traveling bank [Music] I'm 30 years old [Music] nights would be cold now if you hadn't stuck it out in this bluesman I'm 30 years old Niger will be cold you have hung around [Music] with this bluesman you you [Music] I kicked the habit of smoking back sometime and I tried the hearts though I had it all but the toughest flame ever gave up [Music] old habits like [Music] I use lifesavers to help me [Music] [Applause] but you know pure love Oh lifesavers I've gone cold turkey there's not even one kid [Music] and old habits like hard Oh [Music] with someone you is so hard [Music] I have [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] habits like it hard to burn I got a very special guest to want bring out here now this is little Hunter Hayes [Applause] what you gonna do hunter and ideas something call them symbol of something called jambalaya's sound good you [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] oh wow [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] Oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] my son [Music] [Applause] have they fun a big barn on about and form one of them here oh sorry Garmadon big farm take it [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] all these 14 15 year old his business better look out that night because here come to four years old [Applause] [Music] well my mama met my daddy down and out of bounds they tied the knot so here I am born on the Bayou on the Texas line look at Louisiana and regional jambalaya [Music] guitar in my hand by the time I could talk I had my own band went on the road when I was 8 years old turned 15 I was stealing the show money to burn and women were pretty it didn't take me long to learn that I was born to boogie [Music] when I was 18 I went to Hollywood I met Elvis and Marilyn and Johnny be good you got my gift are painted California Sun lack havin too much fun went home and came in me moved it all over the MGM this is little boy were telling you about cigar and they stuck his hand out [Applause] [Music] have we got a deal for you we're gonna make you a star hey you're good too my mama didn't [Music] Sheba's address a whiskey by the gallon what I do now i routed friend can be tweet and I could be mean and I wear my hat and I wear blue jeans shades of roll but give talks video if you think I won't [Music] and I was born to boogie [Music] [Music] welcome to the 21st annual Music City News country Awards [Music] [Applause] [Music] ready or not here we come [Music] I got ketchup on my blue jeans adjust my hand coming over tonight [Music] ready to get the face [Music] [Applause] my friends are coming over tonight [Music] [Music] you can jump in [Music] don't you step on my cowboy boots [Music] mattad friends are coming over tonight [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] we [Music] hey he's a lover fighter a wild horse rider the big game hunter mountain climber hell of a good ol boy and with my best friend's Hank Williams jr. thank you [Applause] well I'm just so proud to be here and I've been blessed in a lot of ways number one I was blessed because I the son of Hank Williams number two I was really blessed being around all these great songwriters and musicians I could spiel from which I stole everything I could I'm still doing that I want to try to pay back a little bit to some of you guys [Music] oh my rowdy friends have settle down and seem to be more in the laid-back song [Music] nobody want to get drunk and get loud [Music] [Applause] everybody wants to do back home [Music] I myself have seen my Wilder day I have seen my name at the top of the page but I need to find some friends just around [Music] nobody wants to get high all the time [Music] all my rounded friends have settled yes and I think I know daddy meant when he sang about a Lost Highway no George Jones I'm glad to see is fine take it he's paid Yesi for these days and nobody wants to get drunk and get away I think I know what my daddy meant when he sang about the Lost Highway Oh Chris is a movie star Willie MLA Johnny Cash don't act like he did back in but I want to get drunk and get loud all my route and friends have settled [Music] yeah me and my brother Chris we're at home [Applause] [Music] have you heard the news babies do rocking and I wear no alone rocket shoes I'm gonna rock way out and lose have you heard the news baby's good rockin tonight you

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Length: 136min 57sec (8217 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 12 2020