Hank Williams Jr. - 2007.11.17 - Tribute to Bocephus at CMT Giants

[Music] [Applause] [Music] there with a lot of people in Louisiana that called people both seedless you know and I was born in Shreveport but Rock Brassfield had a little dummy on the Grand Ole Opry and he called it Bocephus and they said I would crawl over the floor and grab it and play with it I think I've had a lot to do with it too so that's where it came from the truth is always stranger than what you can make up [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] I just came in here I have whiskey and beer I'm gonna say hi to your home oh no me thank you you see my Oh [Music] we got the word while all these stupid-ass and pastas out of running around I am not that real I don't stop--no feel glad no gets always keep at it now I'm looking for lover yeah my have some fun they call me both Caesars baby when it [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] then I everybody loves me those that you wanna fight right okay and I got some kids have friends from legendary Saturday nights I learned some from Leonard Skinner sugar-daddy artist up to this is a platinum boy doesn't look for lover I will have some fun they call me both severs baby [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I'm sorry Oh [Music] [Music] please welcome Tim McGraw welcome CMT Giants honoring Hank Williams jr. tonight we're here to throw a party a giant party for Bocephus you got a pig in the ground we got beer oh nice and all his rowdy friends here tonight and believe me to get a permit in Hollywood to put a pig in the ground she gotta get pretty rowdy [Applause] now giant that's the perfect description tank Gina's career so far this is the only artist ever to have won Entertainer of the Year not once not twice five times in a row [Applause] he's sold over 50 million albums and for nearly two decades sports fans around the globe kicked off Monday night with his signature [Applause] now the fact that hey Junior is sitting here and is nothing short of a miracle just going to cook boy when a horrifying mountain fall nearly killed him rather than give up and walk away Hank used the tragedy as an opportunity to completely reinvent himself he went out rocked things up and gave country-music a good kick in the ass [Applause] [Music] [Applause] which we could use that again Hank but anytime you're ready take you are a true American icon and personally personally I grew up listening to your music I played your songs I cut my teeth on your songs and I wouldn't be standing here tonight what for you [Applause] we gathered your fans the friends to celebrate you and your incredible life you've been entertaining us for nearly five decades it's a good thank you out of couch so it's time for you to sit back and enjoy tonight is reliable seekers [Applause] [Music] [Music] tonight from Hollywood this is CMT Giants honoring hate William jr. performances by Alan Jackson Brad Paisley buddy gala lets you will see Holly Williams kick Raj lynyrd skynyrd shooter Jimmy's Steven Tyler Tim McGraw Toby Keith's special appearances by Al Michaels Dierks Bentley the ESPN Monday Night Football crew Jessica Simpson John Madden Johnny Knoxville Jimmy Kimmel Jeanie Chet Martina McBride the Pittsburgh steel special performance by [Music] my Kulick first and unforgettable performance by Alan Jackson when cm Hank Williams jr. continues back to CMT Jaime's honoring Hinkley jr. ladies and gentlemen Brad Paisley the musical forces that came together to create the Hank Williams jr. sound all began down in the deep south well you learned how to rock and roll from Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley he picked up the blues from records of Jimmy Reed Buddy Guy Robert Johnson and blended those influences with the bluesy country music of his father then wildhack toured throughout the country as a teenager he absorbed all the music that he came across and he incorporated those sounds into his own musical voice but that didn't just happen he may make it look easy but Hank has spent decades dedicated to his craft he's written some of the most memorable songs and country music songs that give voice to the American everyman when you're at one of those concerts you'll see Hank played just about every instrument known to man guitar banjo fiddle piano bass harmonica drums and play them all well [Music] it's undeniable that Hank Williams jr. has become one of the most influential artists of our time any genre of music anything you can think of I know everybody on this stage this evening myself included we would not be doing what we're doing if it hadn't been for him Thank You Hank for being here and inspiring all of us singing one of his favorite Hank songs blues man please welcome Alan Jackson [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] but he's just a singer natural-born guitaring [Music] he's countable cleaner the sad old songs is not a walk behind her there's a new note 5 these names a reminder Oh man it's already gone he started drinking took some fangs messed up his thing [Music] he was Sher Singh she came long he was alone and spot line not too much left inside [Music] she changed all that when she's singing this song hey baby I love you hey baby hey baby to prove to me some kind of macho man you've wasted so much of your Iran into the dark night let me shine little of light down [Music] he got so sick and speed all the things they said he was need [Music] please keep on please they all his fans we got hooked on dirt roads got sued over no-shows she came and took all that alone down off it he's saying hey baby I love you too [Music] hey baby I do return look this traveling man I'm over 40 years old now nights would be cold [Music] and you hadn't stuck it out this bluesman he's over 40 years old Knights would be so cold she hadn't hung around that bluesman a plan Lulu's overseas [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you for hanging around after all that music man [Applause] [Music] when I do my acoustic set and I go down to open G and you know delta tuning or a or an open e that doesn't that's just natural I'm a son of the South like the song said born on the bayou on the Texas line [Applause] Jambu life to offer but I do believe [Applause] [Music] [Applause] welcome back to CMT Giants honoring Hank Williams jr. [Music] Johnny knew me from the time I was a very small little baby I've got pictures of us together eight years old ten years old June Carter's my god look at to them you know I'm Bocephus good old John he'd loved outdoors he loved firearms he loves Civil War and me and him were just really into that yeah we didn't talk shop all the time what's the best bullet [ __ ] to sit up I'd like to have the most accurate 36 caliber because I love death involved it's like it fit me he loved capping ball ladies and gentlemen please welcome Gretchen Wilson they told me once that he inherited two passions from his daddy one for music and one for the outdoors if you think he gets excited about music you ought to see him out in the woods or on the water I don't think I've ever met anybody with a deeper love for hunting and fishing than this man right here he juggles his whole concert schedule around the hunting season hen when he wraps up the show even if it's midnight he's jumping on a plane or a bus to make sure he's out in the woods by Sunrise but there's one thing that he loves more than hunting that's his family so he combines the two most days you'll find him out in the woods with his youngest kids Sam and Katy sharing his passion with the next generation and I gotta tell you I'm so happy that I was a part of a generation that was touched by Hanks music from the moment that we first met I felt like I was a part of the family and I still do I love you anything a few more of your fans singing the number one hit from 1987 born to boogie this is [Applause] about mr. both seekers huh [Music] [Applause] [Music] they tie the knot so here I am gonna buy you wanna Texas flag and John the line [Music] [Applause] get time and that a headband when I say years old I will stay with the show [Music] the Gentile [Music] with a Hollywood Carolyn and John to be good in kalamoon red cat having too much fire [Music] we're jamming over to MGM with Santa's the new you let see guy and it struck his hand [Music] you gonna make a sign - pentagram - I told mine fool [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] dude [Music] save stream risk about a gallon what I do now what I did Oh [Music] [Applause] you got my hands to where my teens say it's a gift I steal believe me I will get [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] welcome back the CMT Giants honoring Hank Williams jr. ladies and gentlemen Dierks Bentley Randle Hank Williams was only three years old and his legendary father died in the backseat of a blue Cadillac convertible on the way to a New Year's Eve gig in Canton Ohio Hank Williams was only 29 country-music lost its biggest star and Audrey Hanks widow figures her son could fill that void the next 15 years she acted as Hank juniors manager pushing min to performing his father's hits crowds went wild with the three incarnation of Hank Williams and Hank juniors popularity's fight but not without a steep price he grew frustrated that his own identity was being stifled when Hank jr. was 14 while riding on a tour bus through the hills of Tennessee he wrote a song that some say to find him standing in the shadows was a top five hit and symbolic of Hanks tough life at 18 Hank branched out with his own type of music audiences walked out of his shows though they wanted to hear Hank Williams music but Hank jr. had decided to sing his own songs for nearly a dozen years he toured in toiled writing a recording album after album hoping his music would strike a chord with country music fans Bocephus began down the same dark treacherous path that doomed his dad kentucky bourbon and bottles of pills became part of Hanks life then in 1979 Hank's fortunes turned around with a song family tradition it was a huge hit one in which Hank probably sang about hard living and his daddy's name he got the opportunity to sing with his dad in 1989 when he recorded the classic song there's a tear in my beer here's a momentous event for a man who'd come full circle and finally embraced his father's legacy congratulations saying ladies and gentlemen Shooter Jennings [Music] they are done you know Hank and I have a lot in common we're both so proud to be the sons of country music legends we both had a chance to play music with our fathers but I've got to say that his story about how Hank got to play with his dad is a little more complicated you see back in 1951 Hanks senior recorded a demo of a beer-drinkin song called there's a tear in my beard unmarked recording ended up in an attic in Texas there it's at baking and freezing for nearly four decades then in late 1980s the owner bill Lister who is in the Hanks seniors band rediscovered it and gave it to Hank jr. and thanks to a little digital technology plenty of creativity and maybe a little bit of divine help Hank jr. finally had a chance to do it with Hanks scenery there's a tear in my beer became a huge hit winning a Grammy Award the incredible video ain't created for it one video of the year it's an amazing song and an amazing story [Music] got to understand hey junior means a whole lot to me because I would be like a deer in headlights in this industry if it hadn't been for him setting setting the pace mixing southern rock rock and roll in country right here on my arm I've got cdcs tattoo that means country boy can survive right here and now here to perform there's a tear in my beer one of my favorites right now mr. Brad Paisley [Applause] [Music] and my bed cuz I'm crying for you dear are on my own to these last few beers that I have [ __ ] it you are on my [Music] I'm gonna keep drinking until I'm petrified maybe these tears will lean my eyes there's a tear my face cuz I'm crying for evening we're on my [Music] [Music] for kids until I came to my Harpo heard me so there's a tear in my beer cuz I'm crying for you dear [Music] you are on my mind I'm trying I'm trying but my tears I can't our own [Music] all these blues that I've found ever lick got me down you are I keep drinkin till I can't thank you and calls in the last week hey step away there's a tear my fears I'm crying for you dear [Music] you are on my loan [Music] [Applause] daddy is in a class by himself you know you can sit here and drop names it doesn't matter if it's Keith Richards or Waylon Jennings or Kris Kristofferson or Alan Jackson they just look at him and it just you know and he'd say well you know he was 29 huh he was 29 when he died as a yeah he's with us he did it for years you know as far as although he was singing all the time would have to be the most natural songwriting talent in the history of country music have to be welcome back to CMT Giants ladies and gentlemen Martina McBride 1 August day in 1975 Hanks spirit of adventure nearly ended his life Hank his friend dick Willie and dicks 11 year old son Walt woke up early to go sheep hunting along the Continental Divide separating Idaho and Montana they are 11,000 feet in the air Hank gingerly steps onto a snow field placing his feet in the boot prints of Dickon Walt who have just crossed before him he gets halfway across then the ground beneath him gives way Hank tumbles hard-and-fast 520 feet down AJAX now only a giant gray Boulder stops his momentum when Hank touches his face he finds that it is been shattered miraculously though he is alive hurting and hopeless Hank talks to his dad about the demons he has fought much of his adult life he is certain that he'll never entertain again he asked God for a second chance to get life right Hank has said I felt the despair and self-loathing peel away from me thankfully Hank God did answer your prayer on AJAX Mountain that August day and I think he did all of us a favor I can't imagine the world and he's congratulations [Applause] I was going around the mountains there on the Idaho Montana border and we were descending and we're way up high and it was basically an avalanche and I went out there and the whole thing went down it's gone I said I'll never be out of here I didn't know how badly I was hurt you know it was it was a deal of laying there in the snow and keeping a beat on a rock with one hand you know but I really thought would not make it through that and like a lot of the doctor said you know I don't know if you're supposed to count deer or play songs you've been left here to do something the father and son who helps state makes life on Ajax Mountain please welcomes longtime friends dick and Walt Willy [Applause] I was only 11 years old the day Hank fell but one look and I knew things were very serious people do not realize just how badly Hank was hurt that day when I finally reached him at the bottom of the mountain I took off my shirt and tied up what was left of his face then I left Walt to stay with him while I went to find help before dad left us he told me don't let Hank go to sleep keep talking to him I talked about everything from football and hunting and how we were gonna go fishing that day after he got back i sat on that mountain for nearly four hours before a rescue helicopter finally found us they strapped Hank to the side of the chopper and flew him away I still have a note that Hank gave me two days after the fall and it says Walt thanks for saving me Hank Williams jr. [Applause] in the months after the accident the media credited me was saving Hanks life but I think we all know there was a greater power on that mountain that day they had bigger plans for Hank to Williams jr. okay our families have become very close since your accident we've been through a lot together you earn D living truth that a country boy can survive [Applause] [Applause] ladies and gentlemen tell the truth [Music] preaching man says it cm the time and the Mississippi River Caesar go and ride the interest is up and the stock markets down and you get mugged if you go downtown [Music] I live back in the wood you see a woman and the kids and adults and me got a shotgun arrival and a four-wheel-drive country boys can survive country-folk cancer [Music] [Applause] [Music] well filled all day long catch catfish from the still dog only go noodling to maker own whiskey grow our own smoke to need too many things these old boys can do [Music] all the medicine homemade wine country boy can survive country boats where [Music] [Applause] from the West Virginia coal mines in the Rocky Mountains and the western sky yeah we can skin a bug run a trotline and a country boy can survive country folks [Music] [Music] I had a good friend in New York City never call me by my name [Music] Rampal taught me how to live off the land he's told him to be a businessman [Music] pictures of the Broadway night Sam here [Music] but he was killed by a man with a six-way night before the $3.00 my friend lost his life he'll I don't love this fits and Beach nothing that dude I'd shoot aim with my own 45 this country boys hands [Music] shotgun we down [Music] North California and South Alabama a little bit of town all around this land some we can skin above run a trotline and a country boy can survive country folks can survive [Music] [Applause] the Pittsburgh Steelers and Terry Bradshaw push Steven Tyler and blues legend Buddy Guy [Music] welcome back to CMT challenged I don't know about you guys but I can speak for me that Monday night football theme here at our ringtones you hear it when you walk in the office you hear it on Monday nights and Tony Jaa's goes into this violent reaction when he heaters it's very frightening you do hear it all over the country and doing this job the last two years it gives me shivers I want to smash my head open like a bumpkin at some time but it is it's got to be the single most recognizable tune in the history of sports no I don't know that there's a category for that but it's way ahead everything else you don't that's a player I remember the song you know each set is a player and most weirdest pass that's not best modoch I get I got to remember that well maybe I'll get a little spasmodic when that song comes out and I thanks Hank but we are on estate congratulations Hank we are proud to be a part of Monday Night Football but you are the biggest piece of Monday Night Football Hank the phrase I hear more often than not when people find out I work for Monday Night Football are you ready for some football you have put your signature your stamp on this game and we love you for it Hank I've been a monday night football fan since I was 8 years old and no one is more synonymous with a big sporting event I just want to say thanks for all those years of giving me goosebumps and getting us all ready for some football please welcome Steven Thailand [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] ketchup on my blue jeans and just believe my hand Lord otago be a bubble-bath shine on plain girls I can cook clean I gotta get over my router friends a comment [Applause] we took a beer coming over tonight [Music] the world it's a long way from Hollywood but I got a squeeze me so missus if they just walk through give each other [Music] oh my boot [Music] my rowdy friends are coming over tonight [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] I'm additional ass kick-started [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] mr. Buddy Guy [Applause] ladies and gentlemen NFL Hall of Famer legendary Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw thank you thank you folks thanks I've always been a huge fan of yours not just of your music of course but as the man who a few hundred million people know as the voice of Monday Night Football you know I got on me a while back just how much the two of us really are alike I mean take for example your your favorite football team to Scourge Steelers my favorite football team Pittsburgh Steelers over my career in in football we've been able to win as a team for Super Bowls and of course over your career you were able to win four Emmy Awards as a country artist you started out recording in daddy's songs and as a country artist I recorded one of your teddies songs I'm so [Applause] [Music] [Applause] excuse me did I mentioned four Super Bowls thank you thank you Ben Laden of football fans for nearly 20 years kicking off the biggest night in sports your favorite team might not be able to sing as well as you but you can't question their love for you take a look at this [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] turn off my TV for the kids is fun of all season might appear on TV or what [Music] football's coming home [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] carnival [Applause] things like that [Applause] well thank goodness they play better than they can sing anyway Hank we all love you and you know what we wanted to show you our gratitude and so everyone on the show tonight well I signed this ball and this is just for you my friend [Applause] [Applause] hey Hank congratulations I think what you did for Monday Night Football through the years was was tremendous man people would go around the country saying are you ready for some football you are a true giant in the industry Hank congratulations we enjoyed all those years and you're a special guy and you deserve this welcome back to CMT James [Music] I always tell [Music] poly-r hilary shelton whoever don't forget now your grandmother Audrey Williams did way more shows than Hank did because he died she was out there doing what she could used to own that road doing show do and show new show hauling me out there new and show Paul and Waylon haunted all and Agatha do it show all and Kilgore out there it had the right name Audrey Williams caravan of stars [Music] ladies and gentlemen Kenny Chesney the beautifully defined Hank we love jr. by any one aspect of what he does it would have to be the way he handles a crowd handles the stage and brings the music home Hank hit the road in gang experience playing to huge crowds beginning at age 14 singing his father's songs for 20,000 crazed fans of Detroit's Cobo Hall gave Bocephus a sense of how big really big as Hank jr. evolved from Hanks senior songs to his own human while it wasn't what Nashville was selling the people appreciated his renegade style of music that had a hard rock filled fans bought tickets whether he was on the radio or not and filled concert halls by the thousands with those legendary high-energy performances he played all kinds of instruments - turn around and toyed with the crowd his album started selling in the millions and his songs began to dominate country radio Hank jr. became an unstoppable force with fans and country music could no longer ignore him in the 80s Hank had a record-setting nine albums on the Billboard chart all at the same time 1986 to 1988 you want an unprecedented five straight Entertainer of the Year honors from the ACM and the CMAs that rain cemented his stature as country music's quintessential showman that instinct to know what fans want remains in 2007 Hank was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame the songwriter a storyteller a singer and a musician but most of all the man's Full Tilt entertainment congratulations Hank the rock and country music like nobody else could and like your dad redefining just how intense this music can be [Music] [Applause] ladies and gentlemen please welcome johnny Knoxville [Applause] [Music] sorry about that Hank I meant to give you a whole bottle but I had to wait backstage a little bit so the folks at CMT were trying to think of the perfect person to introduce the song whiskey bent and hellbound and unfortunately Gary Busey was not available steve-o is in jail so they came to me growing up in the hills of Tennessee Hank I was a huge fan of yours and I stand up here tonight a huge fan a god bless you and right now to see whiskey Ben and hellbound we got mr. Tim McGraw [Applause] [Music] [Applause] I got a good wall at home who thinks I do no wrong sometimes Lord she just ain't no is rare and you know that's where at fall [Music] help myself at all and I'll get where's he been hello a song about a ring man we're cold worn in my I would you know I love here damn d'Orsay but don't play I could cry cuz I'll get all balled up in a shot I'll get whiskey beer and help [Music] [Music] sooner chosen time that stoned out of my mind I end up with some honky-tonk special I plan just as sure as the mall Gordon son comes thinking about my sweet girl at home and I need to get frisky man hello bad many a song about a rain Oh Jimmy cause you know I still love to get drunk in here country sailing don't you play your Chi cause it'll tear me all apart and I'll get where's he been in hell you think souls always and make me feel older [Music] I think himself is on the way but next absolute solution can wilson sings welcome back to CMT James ladies and gentlemen Jimmy Kimmel I am Jimmy Kimmel thank you I'm talking to you from the bar next to my TV studio this is the kind of place where Hank Williams jr. is music about hurt and heartache feel especially right um can I get a sunburn fizzy lady thank you anyway Hank your music will stand the test of time especially classics like naked women and beer naked women and beer we got it all here for your eyes and your ears they show it all in the clear way up north and down south whoo somebody shut my mouth Thank You Guillermo knate knate knate knate knate naked women Nick Nick Nick Nick naked women ice-cold beer it's all together in here naked women and beer I almost get choked up saying those words hats off to you Bocephus you're a great American and this is a great sunburn fizzy lady egg you singing her favorite Hank song please welcome [Music] it brings him settle [Music] Maureen's laid-back song nobody wants to get drunk and get [Music] everybody just wants to go back home [Music] myself have seen my Wilder day and I have seen the name but I need to found a friend just to run around nobody wants to get high [Music] and [Music] [Music] is finally getting straight while still here [Music] because nobody wants to get drunk and get loud [Applause] Hanson [Music] [Applause] [Music] - [Music] things [Music] nobody wants to get high on the tail [Music] [Applause] [Music] when you sing about a Lost Highway in 68 [Music] [Music] nobody wants to get drunk and get low [Applause] give me now [Music] [Applause] Wayland Jennings and Merle Haggard were on the tour I'm talking early sixties middle sixties and they were arguing over which one of them was going to make it I'll never forget it you never forget it being Merle talked about it all the time hag and they were going out there so that's the environment I grew up in getting that old some kind of horrible motor home that Waylon had would break down every hundred miles of course of the bus we had what much different whoa hey this is fun being on tour the time I was young enough it was fun it was a lot of fun Kara's all for I'm I'm a ride with weight from his motor home all good [Music] welcome back to CMT James please welcome Jessica Simpson pink was just three years old that when his father passed away and even though he was just a boy pink seniors Legend and lore were a major presence in his life it was a relationship that Hank jr. and another of his heroes Waylon Jennings sing about in our 1983 do it the conversation here to sing that song tonight our Hanks daughter and Whelan's son please welcome my good friends [Applause] [Music] now hey let's talk about your daddy tell me how your mama loved that man just break out a bottle husband I tell you about the trip didn't come up and we won't talk about the habit just music and main [Music] now Holly you just gotta tell me did your daddy really write all them songs no answer huh [Music] I'm about your mama [Music] the concrete around [Music] he was here at NAMM Bocephus really think that do you think in my mama'll order keep you right here bye [Music] for so Drobo he'd be the first one on the bus it's one ago Hank come on never is I hope he's happy yeah and I hope he's doing well standing next to my dad and at hand come on Adri and reason I won't ask you no more questions to the story [Music] I'm saying [Music] don't stall and I love till you better love singing I'm sorry look at me you know I've always loved listen [Music] down to it [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] ladies and gentlemen tell Vickie [Applause] thank you very much my little boy about five or six years old my mother was 25 or 26 and she bought two tickets for her and her girlfriend to go to the Hank Williams jr. show in Fort Smith Arkansas and Hank was all dressed up in a nice suit and they had him clean-cut and he was singing a song called 11 roses I guess you've noticed you know Alan anyway he was saying this song and so years later go by and the first time I got the meeting we were in Louisville at the State Fair about 10 years ago I think so I go over to his bus and I'm gonna go up and see the man both secrets right I said hey man I met you when I was five years old in Fort Smith Arkansas and you were singing a song called eleven roses and he goes well thank God I don't want to play that anymore anyway Hank went on to start dressing out of his own closet singing his own songs and surrounding himself with people that he could trust and that believed in the dream he did so when my career got that way in the early 90s I surrounded myself with people that I could believe in and surrounded myself I started dressing out my closet singing my own song because of you ho [Applause] as an artist it's so important to have somebody around you that you can trust completely all the time and very few of us in this business have that kind of person in our lives for nearly half a century Hank jr. did have that in his life and it was his best friend and manager Merle Kilgore Hank and Merle they were a team when Hank was 14 started this performing career his mother called Merle and asked him to be his opening act the two of them roomed together wrote endless hours on the bus together and the process became best friend Merle was a brother father mentor co-conspirator all rolled into one he was there in the good times he was there in the bad time when Hank became the biggest act in country music and Nashville still refused acknowledging it was Merle who finally got them to stand up and take notice he took every record exactly Music Row to lunch and explained to them what they were missing out on Merle was truly the man behind the legend we should all be so blessed to have a friend like Merle Kilgore [Applause] [Applause] the Merle Kilgore would be [Music] like a brother and a father someone that's always looking at the bright side of things back when I was Josh 14 he would borrow one of my guitars and maybe I had just gotten and go out there scratching onstage doing his ring of fire Wolverton mountain i tell mama gotta match my guitar all the pieces you know but later on I didn't care after I got to know him as if you scratch it all you want yeah boy talk about the history that me and him had and tell you something you lose somebody's been with you 40 years like that it's a big deal [Music] back to CMD James now to honor Hank jr. please welcome Kid Rock but quite a night brother quite a night [Applause] when we talk about a father and a brother and a friend someone who's honest his heart runs on his own clock if you know what I mean that makes a lot of music hip-hop and country and rock and roll or rhythm and blues the gospel and guess where I learned that from [Applause] why does Hank deserve this tribute tonight because he put some balls and country music he's the real deal [Applause] there's not a lot of people that tell me what to do in this life there's not a lot of people that I look up to and respect in a manner like I do Hank because of Hank I quit smoking cigarettes because the Hank because the Hank I quit doing other funny stuff if you know I'm talking about because I respect him he's been like a father figure taught me so much but he hangs out with me like a brother what can I say Hank Williams jr. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] I know who my real fans are I see every one of you out there rippen North Californians South Alabama came over the wrong I know the difference and the phony stuff and the real stuff cuz I had the phony stuff for a long time when I was going on I only deal in the real stuff my fans are the most loyal hardcore fans and touch of music period [Applause] I don't give it back going to la new no damn John so I don't want to [Applause] if those season I hate that I could care less about that you got it but that was a devil talking I've gone out here and I have seen the light [Applause] Hey the devil were trying to keep me away from Southern California [Applause] [Applause] I'm glad that I came here to accept your love and give you a whole [Applause] a special performance by both zebras himself [Applause] [Music] kzla don't sign up with Dixon we're there did [Music] and the people that know me know Jim Beam whiskey way they did in the [Music] they said son you're gonna play the Big Apple sorrow anger and scene [Music] all I've seen so far is one big hassle I wish I was with both Shiva's down there Tennessee [Applause] I've had all I can stand I'm headed back below the Dixie line I don't fit in and I never go back again I would Buster there [Music] those people never smiled or said a word all too busy trying to make an it today I look Hall among them the Spartanburg and sure Troy : kara all the things you know that I most of all here's the freedom of other rivers in the pie they only know hunting-and-fishing up there but I had met a few squirrels on a porcupine if it's in the promised land I've had whose fan wish our dad a Montgomery County man in go back again Alex you hey I'll be stuck somewhere with Dixie [Music] [Applause] do you want a drink do you wanna party this is Rock and Randall hang I'm gonna get the thing started thank you for coming here I won't forget it very special to me [Applause]

Channel: Whole Lotta Hank

Views: 4,142,341

Keywords: Hank Williams Jr, Bocephus, country, tribute, CMT, Giants, legend, Shooter Jennings, Kid Rock, Johnny Knoxville, Alan Jackson, Buddy Guy, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Steven Tyler, Gretchen Wilson

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Length: 78min 3sec (4683 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 10 2018