Musician: Hank Williams

[Jodi S.]

When the hurt happens, as it is wont to do, out comes the Hank and Cash.

[ubercat]

Another useless C/NC. The answer is obvious.

[Tommy Alpha]

Sure, but it makes people write things like this:

When the hurt happens, as it is wont to do, out comes the Hank and Cash.

[PEPPER!]

hey happy birthday Hank Williams. I'll do something honest and ill-considered today in your honor.

[noise&light]

Sometimes there's nothing quite like listening to Hank Williams on a quiet, bright morning.

Move It On Over

New Yorkers are fortunate to have "Hank Williams Lonesome Cheating Hearts Club Band" around to hear these songs played live. That band is a kick.

[connor]

Finally got me the Complete Hank Williams boxset. This is the way to go. Tons and tons of completely great stuff not collected even on the really big compilations.

[Brett Eugene Ralph]

The silence of a falling star lights up a purple sky
And as I wonder where you are
I'm so lonesome I could cry . . .


Top that, anybody on earth.

[Brett Eugene Ralph]

Or how 'bout this for hillbilly surrealism?

I went up on the mountain
I looked down in the sea
I seen the crabs and the fishes
Doin' the beep-bop-bee

'Cause my bucket's got a hole in it . . .

[FuzzBob]

Some absolutely great stuff.

NOT CRAP, serious waffle for deciding against being responsible and using a condom that one fateful night.

[Yngwie Einstein]

Some absolutely great stuff.

NOT CRAP, serious waffle for deciding against being responsible and using a condom that one fateful night.

But then who would ask you if you were ready for some football?

[connor]

NOT CRAP, serious waffle for deciding against being responsible and using a condom that one fateful night.

Well-bowled, sir.

[SecondEdition]

If you don't like Hank Williams, honey, you can kiss my ass.

[syntaxfree07]

The greatest ever. Sorry Johnny and Willie; but you'd probably agree.

[numberthirty]

NOT CRAP, serious waffle for deciding against being responsible and using a condom that one fateful night.

Well-bowled, sir.

The hell with that. Hank Williams Jr. is the best songwriter ever to have that name.*








*Even if he is trippin' nowadays.

[jimmy two hands]

NOT CRAP. Anyone who disagrees is not allowed to listen to music.

[Myshkin]

I'm wearing my Hank Williams shirt right now. Not even possible to be crap.

[Braniac5]

Buck Merril was Dally's rodeo partner. He was the one who'd got Dally the job as a jockey for the Slash J. Buck raised a few quarter horses, and made most of his money on fixed races and a little bootlegging. I was under strict orders from both Darry and Soda not to get caught within ten miles of his place, which was dandy with me. I didn't like Buck Merril. He was a tall lanky cowboy with blond hair and buckteeth. Or he used to be bucktoothed before he had the front two knocked out in a fight. He was out of it. He dug Hank Williams - how gross can you get?

Ponyboy retarded my appreciation of country music by about ten years.

You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.

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I was a pretty good imitator of Roy Acuff, but then I found out they already had a Roy Acuff, so I started singin' like myself.

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If a song can't be written in 20 minutes, it ain't worth writing.

Hank III kicks ass too, judging by the one or two songs of his I used to play on the jukebox. Fun to hang out with as well, I've been told.

[Antero]

NOT CRAP, serious waffle for deciding against being responsible and using a condom that one fateful night.

Well-bowled, sir.

The hell with that. Hank Williams Jr. is the best songwriter ever to have that name.

Are you kidding me?

[numberthirty]

NOT CRAP, serious waffle for deciding against being responsible and using a condom that one fateful night.

Well-bowled, sir.

The hell with that. Hank Williams Jr. is the best songwriter ever to have that name.

Are you kidding me?

Serious as a trip to the free clinic. Most people who knock Hank Williams Jr. have never actually owned a Hank Williams Jr. record.



The first song is "Living Proof". As much as I love Hank Sr., he never wrote a song as good as that. "I don't wanna be a legend/I just gonna be a man" is a hell of a line.

It also takes watermelon sized balls to say "Fuck this, I'm going to do my own thing" when your dad is Hank Williams.



That is a badass song.



Song about little Hank Sr.'s musical training.







Again, that is a badass song.



See if you catch the real life George Jones nod. That is quality work.

Since Pepper! mentioned Don Helm, this is a Don Helms song he recorded with Hank Jr. -



Extra credit for everything on Hank Live -

[don.chaney]

Serious as a trip to the free clinic. Most people who knock Hank Williams Jr. have never actually owned a Hank Williams Jr. record.

The first song is "Living Proof". As much as I love Hank Sr., he never wrote a song as good as that. "I don't wanna be a legend/I just gonna be a man" is a hell of a line.

He is a great songwriter and that is a great song (his stuff about his father always hits) and that line may mean more to you than anything Hank Williams ever put to record, but you're talking about a giant of American music vs. that giant's son who plays music in a genre, or genres, that would be totally different without his father's contributions (as well as those he influenced, certainly) and who has covered, to great success, pretty much his father's entire catalog (not that he had a choice early on, singing them onstage as a child and on TV at thirteen at the behest of his mother). On top of that, the son is sort of a douche (and not an abusive alcoholic douche, a Republican douche). It's understandable that people are wary of his music.