Baptist Gospel, and country music, came from the same people. The mountain folk of Scots/Irish decent, who played guitar and fiddle. The banjo actually came from the black Americans who migrated to the coal mining country looking for work, and this was then integrated into the mix of what we now know as the modern Bluegrass sound. The black community also brought a blues influence with them, and with the advent of the electric guitar, that whole melting pot morphed into modern country, heavily influenced by people like Jimmy Rodgers, The Carter Family, and Hank Williams. They laid out the basic format of a country song, which was about the real life trials and tribulations that people faced in them days. All those early country music artists were also ardent church goers and grew up listening to gospel songs so it shows in the style of the songs they wrote. There are many more influences to throw into the mix, such as the Texas music scene, the Bakersfield music scene, etc, but what I love about American cultural music (and that's what it is), is that it came from the ordinary people who sang about what they saw and experienced.
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His dad, Hank Williams was as big a star as it was possible to be in his very short life. He died in his car of drink and drugs at 29 years old. Hank Jr. was very young and when he started his career off, he took a lot of grief from his dads fans because obviously, he wasn’t his dad. He developed his own style and songs and made it on his own! In ‘73 he mentioned, he fell off a mountain and was very seriously injured with lots of facial surgeries hence the beard!
Someone found an article in an old edition of my local small town news paper about hank being in my small hometown about a month before his death. He had gotten on the wrong bus in Kansas city (imagine stars like him using public transit today lol) I believe and went the wrong direction, so he paid a local man to give him a ride to where he meant to go. I believe it was st. Louis he was heading, and came north instead if south from Kansas city.
it wasnt cause most of his face was missing it was cause it was scared so bad so he start wearing shades and growed beard as far as hat he wore hats before that but he just started wearing more after he nearly died and yes he is a survivor and was told by doctors he never sing again but did and we call him bocepus the name his daddy gave him down here in bama
I know this is a year old post and others have probably answered or told you this but in 1973 Hank fell off a mountain and dropped 500ft AND SURVIVED. He wears dark glasses, keeps a beard to hide all his scars. He should have died but he didn't. His brain was exposed, his face was basically gone. That's how a woman and Jim Beam almost killed him. His Daddy Hank Sr. died young at age 29. If you look at the guitar in the video of A Country Boy can survive you will see the name Bocephus that was his nick name from his Daddy. He grew up having HUGE country music shoes to fill. When he decided to go his own way in music he became a country music legend in his own right. Gotta love Hank JR ❤️❤️❤️
Back in the day in the honky tonks it went "Hank, why do you drink, everybody in the bar would answer "to get drunk--"why do you roll smoke? "to get stoned"--"why must you live out the songs that you wrote"? "to get laid" 😆😆😆👀👀🎶🎵🎶🎵
The thing the guy is plucking is called a steel guitar I love the sound they can make it cry !! Southern babtist sound came first then country music was formed from that
It’s a steel guitar 😂 That’s why us country music fans don’t claim today’s country as real country cuz they don’t use fiddles, banjos or steel guitars and it’s way to damn poppy anymore and to answer ur question, some say country and Baptist gospel are one in the same
I’m 68. I was a huge Hank Jr fan and took my parents to a concert in about 1980. The joints and bottles of Jack Daniel’s whiskey were passed all through the auditorium. I had grown up hearing my daddy sing Hank Williams Sr songs all my life.
Went to see him when I was a kid in Tennessee and unfortunately he was so drunk he kept calling off the barstool they propped him up on ..but crazy enough it was still worth the time and trouble to go see him . They did end up cancelling the show and I never had the opportunity to see him again
Sounds like times at The Armadillo Headquarters here in Austin, TX back in 70s. Lights would go off and though we had our own, you’d get tapped on the shoulder and you’d see a stoggie for you to smoke and pass. Saw great bands there like all the Kings…Freddie King, B B King, Albert King and Roy Buchanan, Bugs Henderson and later a new band called Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band and many others! It was a wonderful time though there wasn’t much money to be made. Nevertheless, we were all just tcb and enjoying ourselves and everyone got along. 🙏
The instrument he is playing is known as a steel guitar. A wonderful instrument. Also, Hank Jr. is the son of famed Country Legend Hank Williams Sr. A couple of songs he sings I hope u react to are "The Lost Highway" & "Im so lonesome I could cry". Elvis Presley himself said the latter song was the saddest song he ever heard.
His dad died when he was a child. He did a remake of one of his dad's songs called tear in my beer and they spliced video of his dad in with a newer video of him playing. Dope video for sure.
For years Hank Jr was forced into be a tribute artist by his mom to keep his dad's music and money coming in by the early 70 s he was starting to go in his own direction , the album Hank Jr and friends really tells the story well by the time he recovered from his accident and recorded family tradition he was on his way . In my opinion his son Hank lll is worth listening to also.
The Three Hanks is a great album. It is with Sr., Jr., and III. I find it a little hard to distinguish between Sr. and III. They look and sound so much alike.
4:07 That's like asking 'What came first, the chicken or the egg'... Country, Gospel, and the Blues are all children of the same parents, so to speak...
In a club it's different.... When he says why do you drink "to get drunk$ why do you roll smoke "to get stoned" why do you live by the songs that you wrote" to get laid get f*****" is always added by the crowd .it's awesome
I was scrolling through the comments to see if anyone else did that back in the day! This song would get the whole bar going; as long as you were in the right type of bar! Good times, man!
Oh yes even at the outside concert bass pro did a few years ago it was the same way first concert my son went to and I got to take him my daughter's would have liked it better though
Steel guitar is what makes country, country. It stopped being used in most mainstream country in the late 2000's (or at least thats when I stopped listening cause it turned into Pop and Rock clones)
There are still artists that use the steel and slide guitar as well as the fiddle including Josh Turner. Those that are actual "country" and not "pop" continue to use these instruments.
Back in the day. I saw him in concert! The best concert I've been to! About half way through the band got up and left. He wondered around stage, playing every instrument and telling who taught him to play..... The best!
I’ve seen him twice. Once at a presidential rally, and at a Concert. At the concert, he had a fifth of Jack by the stool he was sitting in and taking drinks as the show went on. Dude got so drunk, they had to stop playing a few songs due to him forgetting the words. But the Crowd loved it and cheered; hell most were drunk also. It was a great show regardless
@@guystephens2881 All three hanks are country legends in there own right, they're not just extensions of the first, they carved their own country path.
Any bar ive ever been at that played this it always went like this Why do you drink (bar yells To get drunk) Why do you roll smoke (bar yells To Get High) Why must you live out the songs that you wrote (bar yells To get laid)
I was quickly searching the comments to see if anyone said this. To this day I can’t hear this song without yelling the responses out, even if only in my head lol. Thanks for this!
When I hear the whine of a steel guitar it brings a tear to me as my Dad used to play one and others stuff. And go ahead and clap and be joyous. And Hank Sr. grew up in the South and was raised Baptist and was the wild one of the family as was his son.
hank jr had very interesting people in his home when he was a little boy fats domino came to his house Charly pride Jerry lee Lewis his dad hank williams senior learned to play the guitar from an old black man named tee tot look up the song called (Tee Tot ) by Hank Williams Jr. he can blues, country ,and southern rock
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I've seen Phish, The Dead and other bands with cannabis fans, but the Hank Williams, Jr. concert at Merriweather Post Pavillion in the mid-80's was the most weed I've ever seen at a show. Joints were being passed in all the rows lol
The Forks of the River Jam in Newport TN...Google that mess...my God. We had him Willie CoE Waylon 30 others in 3 days I worked 16 hours today can't remember year I went off top of my head. Charlie Daniels as well and some rock groups. Like around 90 off top of my tired after 70 hour week buzzed ass. Amazing yet scary place lol
Watch the documentary Honky Tonk Blues or read Hanks biography and the coroner's report that all report his death as a fatal combination of morphine and alcohol that stopped his heart. His spina bifida was painful so he drank and took morphine for the pain. He admitted so himself.
The result of the original autopsy indicated that Williams died of a heart attack. Author Colin Escott concluded in his book Hank Williams: The Biography that the cause of death was heart failure caused by the combination of alcohol, morphine and chloral hydrate.
Clappin when you laugh? Man, "YOU BE YOU" and if others look crosseyed at you about that; then that's their issue. Just do your thing and be happy with yourself.
I think since a lot of southern folks are brought up in church and most us country boys first singing experiences are in church. And don’t fret getting old, younger Brother. We only got one other alternative. God bless y’all
It's a Steel Guitar. Makes all the twangy sounds in country music. Growing up Texas in the 80/90 we saw him every time he toured here. Wilder than a Travis Scott concert. He is a cool Brother.... Love your heart brother.
You should read the back story of the accident in 1973. Everyone close to him thought he was going to die at the time. His run ins with women was just as famous.
It made me smile real big when you started singing along. It’s already been answered but Southern Baptist came first and people just took the style and sang about their lives and whatnot. Then this cool thing started happening when jazz was coming up where country music started incorporating a lot of Jazz like in Hank Williams Jr.’s song “Women I’ve Never Had”. From there Jazz turned more into Rock and so did country following on behind.
Smoking and drinking is the unique position that is his family tradition. How Hank Williams Sr. died is what he is alluding to. The song is brilliant actually. Hank Jr. help started what is called Outlaw Country Music. Looking at what Hank Jr. looked like when he first started playing country music professionally up to now is such a drastic change of tone and style. Really cool to see. Plus this guy fell off a mountain and lived. Insane!
Not a big fan of country music but Hank Jr. one of my favorite singers. I could listen to him for hours. Love his songs and style. He is a true legend.
Gospel,Blues, Bluegrass and Country originated from the rural South from poor Blacks and Whites. It can be traced back to the songs the Blacks and Indentured Whites sang while working.
Hank Williams Junior made me be cool with country when I heard "Come On Over to the Country" with Old Bocephus. I was in Altus Oklahoma and away for the first time from my beloved 956 area.
Oh hell yea he used to smoke and drink a lot of whiskey not sure if he does now since he fell 500feet off a Mountain…. Love me some Hank seen him many times …. He is Country Royalty His Dad Hank Sr …. Hank Sr took guitar lessons from a Blues Musician Rufus Payne ( Tee Tot ) Hank Sr has a song called Tee Tot …. You should check out some of his dads stuff …. His dad was also the Bad Boy of Country he was fired from the Grand Ole Opry in 1952 never becoming a member due to his drinking . He died a year later at the age of 29 …. Songs - Hey Good Looking or I’m so lonesome I could cry ….
I used to hang around Albert's Hall in Toronto when I was a student in university. The greats in blues and soul used to come there regularly and play for a week. One day I went and saw an act that blew me away. It was Sneezy Watters and he performed, Hank Williams: The Show He Never Gave, the show that he imagined that Williams would play in Canton Ohio at the scheduled New Year's Eve 1952 show had he not died in the car on the way. It was brilliant and as much as I am not a big fan of Mr. Watters' progressive politics, I became a big fan of his performance.
Not sure which came first. My parents were great fans of Hank Williams, Sr. and they took us to see a concert with Jr. and gave me and my sister napkins to go and get his autograph! We were young and didn't realize who he was, but now I remember being face to face with this legend!!
I went to a Kid Rock concert in Atlanta a couple summers ago and Hank opened up for him and I will say that was one of the best I’ve been to. OMG I LAUGHED SO HARD WHEN YOU SAID I KNEW I WAS OLD WHEN I CLAPPED WHEN I LAUGHED 😂
I saw Hank live years and years ago, my man comes out with an all chrome electric acoustic guitar and sits in an old metal chair that we would cringe at these days. Brings a 5th of Jack with him! Sets it on the stage beside him! He did easy 3 to four hour set and was sideways when it was over! He did the hole show sitting in the chair and getting turned back!
I'm not a country fan,especially the current music it all got glamorized and cowboys are coming from the cities nowadays lol..basically a bunch of posers. But I do enjoy some of the older artists. Johnny Cash,Merl,Willie Nelson etc..and of course old Hank. And yes Hank parties his ass off, I heard an interview where he even talked about tripping on shrooms lol. He's got a very interesting life story
Same, I love country but the BS being played on the radio now is NOT IT. To each their own, but I can't listen to it without my brain cells committing suicide. 😂
Not the first time we have seen citified "cowboys". I still remember Glen Cambell singing "Rhinestone Cowboy"; about as pop as it got in the 70's. And when Tanya Tucker went "Rock-n-Roll".
I saw Hank once. Hank and Waylon. I didn't want to go but damn I'm glad I went! It gave me an appreciation for the "staples" of country. I only wish I could have seen Johnny Cash
One of the funniest things I've ever seen was in Japan at a bar playing country music the Japanese band were all wearing cowboy boots and hats and one of them was playing a steel guitar
Who else can't help, But find yourselves Singing along & ANSWERING THE QUESTIONS! EVERY TIME? THIS GAL RIGHT HERE! COME ON...WHO ELSE ISN'T ASHAMED TO ADMIT IT??
Hanks daddy was old school badass. And Hank Jr. is a badass. Wild child of country music. Drinks , smokes cannabis, loved the ladies, got into many a fight and I’m sure he spent time in jail….. just a good ole’ country boy.
I always enjoy watching your videos. Your smile brings a smile to my face. I listen to just about everything and this song is one of my jams. One of my smokin' songs lol.
Thank you for entertaining me by being open to my heroes from Reagan to Hank . I love learning about other cultures and it's broadened my horizons all of my life . It's really wonderful to see people from all different backgrounds learning from one another . We could use a lot more of that . You mentioned Baptist Gospel / Southern Gospel . The comments are correct about the amazing tapestry of cross pollination between musical cultures . Listen to Hank Williams Gospel songs like I saw the light . I've been in ministry all of my life as well . Hank sr is a great example of us very imperfect people doing amazing things and creating a lasting legacy . In his case musically . Sinners in need of a savior , one and all . Who God can do miraculous things through . No matter how imperfect a vessel we may be . God bless all .
I'm a ginger lol. But seeing you be mindful gives me hope for the world. Love you brother! We need more of this in the world today. I enjoyed this lol. Subscribed by the way.
I think all music comes from religious music. Tribes dancing around for spiritual reasons was probably the first singing and music. So I would say church music was first
When us country folk are partying down listening to this song everyone yells "to get drunk" , and "to get high" after he says "why do you drink" and "why do you roll smoke" ... Good times👍😆
You were talking about him loving the women and Jim beam. They really did almost kill Hank, he fell off a cliff and messed his face and body up bad. The face reconstruction’s left bad scars, hence the beard. Keep up the great vids, y’all are awesome!
In clubs when this song was played the crowd hollered between verses; Why do you drink? TO GET DRUNK!, Why do you roll smoke? TO GET STONED!, Why must you live out the songs that you wrote? TO GET LAID!. There is a video of him doing it live with the audience participating.
They're both from home grown southern music. Old original rock music got mixed in with gospel w blues and blue grass and became what we know as country western or outlaw country. The newer southern Baptist gospel stems from the exact same roots! Heartache and hard times mixed with hope and love. Ones black and ones white but they're identical. Truth about life they live and the dream they chase.
I love watching your reactions. I think it is great you are listening to the good oldies we grew up on. I miss that music. I get to relive with you. Thank you.
"We make our own whiskey and our own smoke, too. Ain't too many things these ol' boys can't do." ~ Hank Williams, Jr. (A Country Boy Can Survive) 🤘 Edit: In my younger days I DJed a few high school dances after home football games. This song was always highly (no pun intended haha) requested, and the students would sing along to the "Hank, why do you drink? Why do you roll smoke?" sections...I would often kill the sound feed during those parts and let them do it a capella lol Sometimes I'd be doing sound checks beforehand while the football game was still going on using death metal bands like Deicide, Death, Cannibal Corpse, etc. Boosters (parents of students and such) would typically be setting things up while this went on, and more than a few times I was asked "You aren't gonna be playing this kind of music for the dance, are you?'...always with a look of shock and concern on their faces 🤣
@@dard4642 and blues came from ragtime jazz, country is a descendent of dixieland jazz that was concurrent with ragtime. while everyone else was in vaudeville with big bands, 2 old boys in Oklahoma were pioneering the electric guitar, Robert Lee Dunn and Big Foot Hamilton, whose students Charlie Christian and T-bone Walker went on to Big band swing and jazz as well as jump blues, which would later become rock and roll. Charlie Christian's technical style is best represented by Django Reinhardt and T-bone Walker's influence is clear in Chuck Berry and B.B. King, as well as Jimi Hendrix.
Dude 40 years ago I was born and listening to this man. It's a something the government hates, is us Country Boys playing Hank Jr and puting him at the top of the list
I've seen hank III in concert 6 times. I love how he splits his show into two segments. The first half is some good ol' country, and the second half is with his band Assjack which is some badass thrash punk/metal.
Hank Williams, Sr. grew up in the Baptist church culture. His mother played organ for the local church. It is natural that the Baptist Hymnal music had a profound on him. And since Hank, Sr had more influence on country music than any other artist before or since, that Baptist Hymnal influence stills remains.
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The steel guitar is a staple in classic country music 😍
Aka the Dobro
My uncle played Steele guitar for Loretta Lynn for years. Last name Hempker.
Thank you for that thank you 😃 at least someone no's country music
Well that would be the Pedal Steel Guitar in Country Music.
Invented by a German.
Baptist Gospel, and country music, came from the same people. The mountain folk of Scots/Irish decent, who played guitar and fiddle. The banjo actually came from the black Americans who migrated to the coal mining country looking for work, and this was then integrated into the mix of what we now know as the modern Bluegrass sound. The black community also brought a blues influence with them, and with the advent of the electric guitar, that whole melting pot morphed into modern country, heavily influenced by people like Jimmy Rodgers, The Carter Family, and Hank Williams. They laid out the basic format of a country song, which was about the real life trials and tribulations that people faced in them days. All those early country music artists were also ardent church goers and grew up listening to gospel songs so it shows in the style of the songs they wrote. There are many more influences to throw into the mix, such as the Texas music scene, the Bakersfield music scene, etc, but what I love about American cultural music (and that's what it is), is that it came from the ordinary people who sang about what they saw and experienced.
What a perfect explanation.
Great comment
This right here
Love that Bakersfield Sound!
Thanks!
Steel guitar my brother one of the prettiest and most distinctive sounds
In my opinion it is the sadest musical instruments, beautiful but sad.
@@lzanemorris ya that and the bag pipes are definitely sad Instruments
Can't have good country music without a steel guitar and a fiddle. You have to have the others but these two stand out in country music.
If I have to choose between steel guitar and fiddle, I'm going with fiddle.
Aaaahhh these new " artists" have no clue.🤔
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Much respect to the LFR FAMILY! Thnx for respectfully learning about old country style. In my family everybody is welcome to sit at our dinner table and share a meal, a little green, whiskey and conversation! Again much respect and love to the LFR FAMILY 🤙✌️🤟
A mix of both.
His dad, Hank Williams was as big a star as it was possible to be in his very short life. He died in his car of drink and drugs at 29 years old. Hank Jr. was very young and when he started his career off, he took a lot of grief from his dads fans because obviously, he wasn’t his dad. He developed his own style and songs and made it on his own! In ‘73 he mentioned, he fell off a mountain and was very seriously injured with lots of facial surgeries hence the beard!
facts hank was no saint but when I was little you better not say that around my house lol.
He also loss most of his sight when he fell. Always where's those dark glasses and has help on stage due to it.
And the glasses
Someone found an article in an old edition of my local small town news paper about hank being in my small hometown about a month before his death. He had gotten on the wrong bus in Kansas city (imagine stars like him using public transit today lol) I believe and went the wrong direction, so he paid a local man to give him a ride to where he meant to go. I believe it was st. Louis he was heading, and came north instead if south from Kansas city.
There was a good made for TV movie about his life. It was in the late 80’s I believe.
His Family tradition comes from his daddy Hank Sr! Now that's OLD SCHOOL!!
His son .. Hank III has a voice like Grand dad, and has a outlaw country sound worth checking out
Hank sr is the man!
One of, if not the greatest.
Hank senior not as much fun, but still great.
Yes, cause Sr. had bad back problems and extreme pain. That's how he dealt with it, back in the day.
Hank survived falling off Ajax mountain that’s why he wears the hat and shades!! Most of his face was missing! He’s a survivor! ❤️Tennessee
All in Alabama
He wasn't wearing the hat & shades in his Memphis mug shot for his assault arrest.
Go see the movie about Hank Jr
it wasnt cause most of his face was missing it was cause it was scared so bad so he start wearing shades and growed beard as far as hat he wore hats before that but he just started wearing more after he nearly died and yes he is a survivor and was told by doctors he never sing again but did and we call him bocepus the name his daddy gave him down here in bama
Yep Ajax on the border of Idaho/Montana while he was hunting. Had I do believe 9 surgeries after that. Damn miracle he is alive!
His dad had that lovely country twang in his voice, he is a legend, his dad was of course Hank Williams Sr.
I know this is a year old post and others have probably answered or told you this but in 1973 Hank fell off a mountain and dropped 500ft AND SURVIVED. He wears dark glasses, keeps a beard to hide all his scars.
He should have died but he didn't.
His brain was exposed, his face was basically gone. That's how a woman and Jim Beam almost killed him.
His Daddy Hank Sr. died young at age 29. If you look at the guitar in the video of A Country Boy can survive you will see the name Bocephus that was his nick name from his Daddy.
He grew up having HUGE country music shoes to fill. When he decided to go his own way in music he became a country music legend in his own right. Gotta love Hank JR ❤️❤️❤️
Back in the day in the honky tonks it went "Hank, why do you drink, everybody in the bar would answer "to get drunk--"why do you roll smoke? "to get stoned"--"why must you live out the songs that you wrote"? "to get laid" 😆😆😆👀👀🎶🎵🎶🎵
Even today when I here this hank song...I though in those statements....by the way I'm a Huge Hank jr fan.
True that!
@@dianaspears571, good times!!😁🎶🎵🎶
It's still done that way 😂
Hell yeah!!
The thing the guy is plucking is called a steel guitar I love the sound they can make it cry !! Southern babtist sound came first then country music was formed from that
Some people also call it a lap guitar but you r speaking facts
Country was informed from Baptist music though I mean it has a little bit of it but it was from Mountain Music Celtic Irish string music
It all came from blues.
Also, that instrument is actually a pedal steel guitar not a steel guitar.
@@dard4642 pedal guitar steel guitar lap guitar... All the same thing!!!
@@dard4642 bro sharing a link ain't gonna change my mind because where I'm from they r all the same thing or in the same category or instrument
It’s a steel guitar 😂
That’s why us country music fans don’t claim today’s country as real country cuz they don’t use fiddles, banjos or steel guitars and it’s way to damn poppy anymore and to answer ur question, some say country and Baptist gospel are one in the same
Today’s country also don’t tell stories or very few do.Cody Johnson is about the only new one that I listen to
@@jaleesaheath2746 exactly, storytelling is the basis of real country music
Yep, a lot of the 'new stuff' is pop pretending to be country.
@@ArleneAdkinsZell facts
Eric church is about 1 of few new country artists thats actually country
Gospel and Country music have gone hand in hand since the beginning. Its true American music!
Yup!!
I’m 68. I was a huge Hank Jr fan and took my parents to a concert in about 1980. The joints and bottles of Jack Daniel’s whiskey were passed all through the auditorium. I had grown up hearing my daddy sing Hank Williams Sr songs all my life.
I wish time machines existed
Went to see him when I was a kid in Tennessee and unfortunately he was so drunk he kept calling off the barstool they propped him up on ..but crazy enough it was still worth the time and trouble to go see him . They did end up cancelling the show and I never had the opportunity to see him again
Sounds like times at The Armadillo Headquarters here in Austin, TX back in 70s. Lights would go off and though we had our own, you’d get tapped on the shoulder and you’d see a stoggie for you to smoke and pass. Saw great bands there like all the Kings…Freddie King, B B King, Albert King and Roy Buchanan, Bugs Henderson and later a new band called Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band and many others! It was a wonderful time though there wasn’t much money to be made. Nevertheless, we were all just tcb and enjoying ourselves and everyone got along. 🙏
The instrument he is playing is known as a steel guitar. A wonderful instrument.
Also, Hank Jr. is the son of famed Country Legend Hank Williams Sr.
A couple of songs he sings I hope u react to are "The Lost Highway" & "Im so lonesome I could cry".
Elvis Presley himself said the latter song was the saddest song he ever heard.
Guitar was invented by a German
His dad died when he was a child. He did a remake of one of his dad's songs called tear in my beer and they spliced video of his dad in with a newer video of him playing. Dope video for sure.
Bet.🙏🏿💯💃🏿
For years Hank Jr was forced into be a tribute artist by his mom to keep his dad's music and money coming in by the early 70 s he was starting to go in his own direction , the album Hank Jr and friends really tells the story well by the time he recovered from his accident and recorded family tradition he was on his way . In my opinion his son Hank lll is worth listening to also.
The Three Hanks is a great album. It is with Sr., Jr., and III. I find it a little hard to distinguish between Sr. and III. They look and sound so much alike.
That steel guitar is one of the best sounding instruments around.
"Whiskey bent and hell bound" is my favorite hank Jr song. Great reactions man.
You know what's good about this music...you can hear every instrument and understand what the singer is saying
"They both tried to kill me in 1973", he's referring to when he OD'd on pills and booze. The fall off the mountain was in '75.
4:07 That's like asking 'What came first, the chicken or the egg'... Country, Gospel, and the Blues are all children of the same parents, so to speak...
In a club it's different.... When he says why do you drink "to get drunk$ why do you roll smoke "to get stoned" why do you live by the songs that you wrote" to get laid get f*****" is always added by the crowd .it's awesome
I was scrolling through the comments to see if anyone else did that back in the day! This song would get the whole bar going; as long as you were in the right type of bar! Good times, man!
@@mzluna313 Norfolk Virginia while in the Navy it was in sync and badass. That and the electric slide.:-)
Yup!! 😂😂
Oh yes even at the outside concert bass pro did a few years ago it was the same way first concert my son went to and I got to take him my daughter's would have liked it better though
2:47 That instrument is called a steel guitar. It is rarely used in todays country music, but is used in most of old country music.
Alan Jackson uses a lot of steen guitar. Sometimes 2. Many more artists are using it again. Nothing can give that twang and tears.
Steel guitar is what makes country, country. It stopped being used in most mainstream country in the late 2000's (or at least thats when I stopped listening cause it turned into Pop and Rock clones)
New shitty non country doesn't use it, but traditional artist, like Jamey Johnson etc still do.
Mostly Honky-tonk, hear that steel guitar you know your listening to Honky-tonk
There are still artists that use the steel and slide guitar as well as the fiddle including Josh Turner. Those that are actual "country" and not "pop" continue to use these instruments.
Back in the day. I saw him in concert! The best concert I've been to! About half way through the band got up and left. He wondered around stage, playing every instrument and telling who taught him to play..... The best!
I’ve seen him twice. Once at a presidential rally, and at a Concert. At the concert, he had a fifth of Jack by the stool he was sitting in and taking drinks as the show went on. Dude got so drunk, they had to stop playing a few songs due to him forgetting the words. But the Crowd loved it and cheered; hell most were drunk also. It was a great show regardless
He's done all the drugs.... 😂 He's an old school outlaw
Jr and 3 are ok, but there will only be one hank Williams. Hank sr. Check out alone and forsaken, ramblin man or lovesick blues.
@@guystephens2881 I love Hank Sr, but you cannot called hank jr just "okay."
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All three hanks are country legends in there own right, they're not just extensions of the first, they carved their own country path.
Any bar ive ever been at that played this it always went like this
Why do you drink (bar yells To get drunk)
Why do you roll smoke (bar yells To Get High)
Why must you live out the songs that you wrote (bar yells To get laid)
I was quickly searching the comments to see if anyone said this. To this day I can’t hear this song without yelling the responses out, even if only in my head lol. Thanks for this!
We always said stoned instead of high. Local custom and a better rhyme lol
@@muffinamy83 same
Yup!!! I was doing while listening to this reaction, lol!!! Bars in the 80s were so much fun!!!
It's stoned not high, but yea that's it lol.
Hank is one of the most talented artists in music. He can play every instrument on the stage very well
When I hear the whine of a steel guitar it brings a tear to me as my Dad used to play one and others stuff. And go ahead and clap and be joyous. And Hank Sr. grew up in the South and was raised Baptist and was the wild one of the family as was his son.
Hank Williams and hank Williams jr are some of my favorite music artists. I just love country music, I’ll choose it over any other type of music.
hank jr had very interesting people in his home when he was a little boy fats domino came to his house Charly pride Jerry lee Lewis his dad hank williams senior learned to play the guitar from an old black man named tee tot look up the song called (Tee Tot ) by Hank Williams Jr. he can blues, country ,and southern rock
He fell over 500 feet down a mountain and survived in 1973.
Country Music royalty. I think you would really enjoy his song "All my rowdy friends have settled down." It's a song for old timers like us 🙃
I really enjoy your videos man you make me laugh hank Williams kicks ass love him always have I love your style dude and I love the truth that you tell on your videos you’re a real American patriot 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸❤️❤️❤️❤️
Hanks speaks the truth. Thanks for listening to that song!
I've seen Phish, The Dead and other bands with cannabis fans, but the Hank Williams, Jr. concert at Merriweather Post Pavillion in the mid-80's was the most weed I've ever seen at a show. Joints were being passed in all the rows lol
I was there 😎
Never been to a Willie Nelson concert, have you? lol
@Jams Staley The Highwaymen were a blast, too!
The Forks of the River Jam in Newport TN...Google that mess...my God. We had him Willie CoE Waylon 30 others in 3 days I worked 16 hours today can't remember year I went off top of my head. Charlie Daniels as well and some rock groups. Like around 90 off top of my tired after 70 hour week buzzed ass. Amazing yet scary place lol
Sameeee
His dad died from alcoholism and drugs. That's his family tradition. HIS BEST SONG CAUSE TRUTH!
Wrong. His dad died of complications from spina bifida. Yes he had a drinking issue but that ain't what killed him. Learn before you flap your lips.
Watch the documentary Honky Tonk Blues or read Hanks biography and the coroner's report that all report his death as a fatal combination of morphine and alcohol that stopped his heart. His spina bifida was painful so he drank and took morphine for the pain. He admitted so himself.
Hank Sr. Died at age 29. You should check out Sr. song book!
The result of the original autopsy indicated that Williams died of a heart attack. Author Colin Escott concluded in his book Hank Williams: The Biography that the cause of death was heart failure caused by the combination of alcohol, morphine and chloral hydrate.
Clappin when you laugh? Man, "YOU BE YOU" and if others look crosseyed at you about that; then that's their issue. Just do your thing and be happy with yourself.
ABSOLUTELY!
It ain’t so deep
I think since a lot of southern folks are brought up in church and most us country boys first singing experiences are in church. And don’t fret getting old, younger Brother. We only got one other alternative. God bless y’all
It's a Steel Guitar. Makes all the twangy sounds in country music. Growing up Texas in the 80/90 we saw him every time he toured here. Wilder than a Travis Scott concert. He is a cool Brother.... Love your heart brother.
You should read the back story of the accident in 1973. Everyone close to him thought he was going to die at the time. His run ins with women was just as famous.
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It made me smile real big when you started singing along. It’s already been answered but Southern Baptist came first and people just took the style and sang about their lives and whatnot. Then this cool thing started happening when jazz was coming up where country music started incorporating a lot of Jazz like in Hank Williams Jr.’s song “Women I’ve Never Had”. From there Jazz turned more into Rock and so did country following on behind.
Smoking and drinking is the unique position that is his family tradition. How Hank Williams Sr. died is what he is alluding to. The song is brilliant actually. Hank Jr. help started what is called Outlaw Country Music. Looking at what Hank Jr. looked like when he first started playing country music professionally up to now is such a drastic change of tone and style. Really cool to see. Plus this guy fell off a mountain and lived. Insane!
You got to the age you really feel life !! Live, laugh and love. Don’t hold back.
Not a big fan of country music but Hank Jr. one of my favorite singers. I could listen to him for hours. Love his songs and style. He is a true legend.
Big fan of Hank Jr. Love his sense of humor in this song.
Hank is a legend! Glad you mix it up a lot with so many genres great reactions
Gospel,Blues, Bluegrass and Country originated from the rural South from poor Blacks and Whites. It can be traced back to the songs the Blacks and Indentured Whites sang while working.
In fact, the banjo originated in Africa, despite being characteristically Southern these days.
If you get a chance there was a documentary on country music that details all of this. The documentary is long but the history is very interesting
@@chrisb654321 what is the documentary called ?
@@colefloyd5303 simply called "Country Music". And was broadcast on PBS
Gospel started in the 1800s followed by country in 1900s I believe that much...but I don't know for sure...my honest opinion is gospel than country
He's playing is call it a steel guitar and honey and it's just twangs so purdy.
Hank Williams Junior made me be cool with country when I heard "Come On Over to the Country" with Old Bocephus. I was in Altus Oklahoma and away for the first time from my beloved 956 area.
Hank Jr's son, Hank III is also a musician. And looks like a Hank SR's identical twin
Sounds like him too.
@@ericmorgan7210 yup, although apparently he all but stopped the business. last notable stuff HWIII put out was in 2014.
Have you seen his daughter?
Oh hell yea he used to smoke and drink a lot of whiskey not sure if he does now since he fell 500feet off a Mountain…. Love me some Hank seen him many times …. He is Country Royalty His Dad Hank Sr …. Hank Sr took guitar lessons from a Blues Musician Rufus Payne ( Tee Tot ) Hank Sr has a song called Tee Tot …. You should check out some of his dads stuff …. His dad was also the Bad Boy of Country he was fired from the Grand Ole Opry in 1952 never becoming a member due to his drinking . He died a year later at the age of 29 …. Songs - Hey Good Looking or I’m so lonesome I could cry ….
I used to hang around Albert's Hall in Toronto when I was a student in university. The greats in blues and soul used to come there regularly and play for a week. One day I went and saw an act that blew me away. It was Sneezy Watters and he performed, Hank Williams: The Show He Never Gave, the show that he imagined that Williams would play in Canton Ohio at the scheduled New Year's Eve 1952 show had he not died in the car on the way. It was brilliant and as much as I am not a big fan of Mr. Watters' progressive politics, I became a big fan of his performance.
Yeah he still did even after falling off the mountain. I don't know about now.
He fell off a cliff and down a mountain and almost killed him, damn near ripped his face and scalp off. Thats why he wears sunglasses and has a beard.
Not sure which came first. My parents were great fans of Hank Williams, Sr. and they took us to see a concert with Jr. and gave me and my sister napkins to go and get his autograph! We were young and didn't realize who he was, but now I remember being face to face with this legend!!
I went to a Kid Rock concert in Atlanta a couple summers ago and Hank opened up for him and I will say that was one of the best I’ve been to.
OMG I LAUGHED SO HARD WHEN YOU SAID I KNEW I WAS OLD WHEN I CLAPPED WHEN I LAUGHED 😂
I saw Hank live years and years ago, my man comes out with an all chrome electric acoustic guitar and sits in an old metal chair that we would cringe at these days. Brings a 5th of Jack with him! Sets it on the stage beside him! He did easy 3 to four hour set and was sideways when it was over! He did the hole show sitting in the chair and getting turned back!
I'm not a country fan,especially the current music it all got glamorized and cowboys are coming from the cities nowadays lol..basically a bunch of posers. But I do enjoy some of the older artists. Johnny Cash,Merl,Willie Nelson etc..and of course old Hank. And yes Hank parties his ass off, I heard an interview where he even talked about tripping on shrooms lol. He's got a very interesting life story
Same, I love country but the BS being played on the radio now is NOT IT. To each their own, but I can't listen to it without my brain cells committing suicide. 😂
Not the first time we have seen citified "cowboys". I still remember Glen Cambell singing "Rhinestone Cowboy"; about as pop as it got in the 70's. And when Tanya Tucker went "Rock-n-Roll".
Check out Cody Jinks! Ward Davis also. Cody Jinks is true current outlaw country.
Check out Tyler Childers and Colter Wall. Both are bringing back old school outlaw country. "Nose on the grindstone" by Tyler Childers is amazing.
What's the difference between a trash truck and a new country tour bus??? Fu@king nothing 🤣🤣🤣
My Dad's favorite singer. Grew up listening to Hank Jr.
Hank Sr was my dad's favorite
my dad too, i’m not a big country music fan but look up these songs because they make me feel close to him again
Hank, Jr made country music FUN! I learned to 2 step to this song.
This is the greatest reaction I've seen for Hank Jr. I'm rollin!
Arthur is right. Gotta be an O.G. in the party world.🥃🍺🍻🥇🥇
I've seen Hank live many times. It is always a good time!😁😁😁
I saw Hank once. Hank and Waylon. I didn't want to go but damn I'm glad I went! It gave me an appreciation for the "staples" of country. I only wish I could have seen Johnny Cash
OMG…. “What instrument is that?” That’s the most beautiful sounding instrument ever made!!! It takes talent to play such!!
One of the funniest things I've ever seen was in Japan at a bar playing country music the Japanese band were all wearing cowboy boots and hats and one of them was playing a steel guitar
Who else can't help, But find yourselves Singing along & ANSWERING THE QUESTIONS! EVERY TIME? THIS GAL RIGHT HERE! COME ON...WHO ELSE ISN'T ASHAMED TO ADMIT IT??
Hanks daddy was old school badass. And Hank Jr. is a badass. Wild child of country music. Drinks , smokes cannabis, loved the ladies, got into many a fight and I’m sure he spent time in jail….. just a good ole’ country boy.
Hank is outlaw country....he had his hands in everything.
Hank’s done it all at one point
I always enjoy watching your videos. Your smile brings a smile to my face. I listen to just about everything and this song is one of my jams. One of my smokin' songs lol.
Love your channel. A 60 year old retired Marine from south Louisiana who loves your stuff!
Thank you for entertaining me by being open to my heroes from Reagan to Hank . I love learning about other cultures and it's broadened my horizons all of my life . It's really wonderful to see people from all different backgrounds learning from one another . We could use a lot more of that . You mentioned Baptist Gospel / Southern Gospel . The comments are correct about the amazing tapestry of cross pollination between musical cultures . Listen to Hank Williams Gospel songs like I saw the light . I've been in ministry all of my life as well . Hank sr is a great example of us very imperfect people doing amazing things and creating a lasting legacy . In his case musically . Sinners in need of a savior , one and all . Who God can do miraculous things through . No matter how imperfect a vessel we may be . God bless all .
It's called a steel guitar, and it has a very unique sound.
I'm a ginger lol. But seeing you be mindful gives me hope for the world. Love you brother! We need more of this in the world today. I enjoyed this lol. Subscribed by the way.
I think all music comes from religious music. Tribes dancing around for spiritual reasons was probably the first singing and music. So I would say church music was first
When us country folk are partying down listening to this song everyone yells "to get drunk" , and "to get high" after he says "why do you drink" and "why do you roll smoke" ...
Good times👍😆
Also react to him and his dad doing Tear In My Beer!!! It’s just as much a tradition as this song!!
Hell yea I love that u reacted to this. I wish more of my Brothas gave old country music a chance lol cause they get down🤣
You were talking about him loving the women and Jim beam. They really did almost kill Hank, he fell off a cliff and messed his face and body up bad. The face reconstruction’s left bad scars, hence the beard.
Keep up the great vids, y’all are awesome!
In clubs when this song was played the crowd hollered between verses; Why do you drink? TO GET DRUNK!, Why do you roll smoke? TO GET STONED!, Why must you live out the songs that you wrote? TO GET LAID!. There is a video of him doing it live with the audience participating.
They're both from home grown southern music. Old original rock music got mixed in with gospel w blues and blue grass and became what we know as country western or outlaw country. The newer southern Baptist gospel stems from the exact same roots! Heartache and hard times mixed with hope and love. Ones black and ones white but they're identical. Truth about life they live and the dream they chase.
That’s called a Steel Guitar …. It’s a dying instrument and that’s so sad ….
Awesome reaction - so cool that music's of all kinds are being enjoyed by a wider group of people :)
More Bocephus please! 🥃🍻👌✌️
I love watching your reactions. I think it is great you are listening to the good oldies we grew up on. I miss that music. I get to relive with you. Thank you.
Country music and blues music are Alot alike, but they are all story tellers. It's just that simple!
You should definitely react to “dinosaur” and “weatherman” by hank Williams jr
Both great
You need to check out jerry reed! Guitar and singing effortlessly
That is what's called a steel guitar
Hank Jr. Icon and a legend!
I am a recent advocate of Van and love to see this! The discovery of a pedal steel is awesome!!!
You gotta do some Hank Sr too!!! And as normal I love all the content and love to hear your opinions on a lot of things!!! Keep em coming fam!!!
"We make our own whiskey and our own smoke, too. Ain't too many things these ol' boys can't do." ~ Hank Williams, Jr. (A Country Boy Can Survive)
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In my younger days I DJed a few high school dances after home football games. This song was always highly (no pun intended haha) requested, and the students would sing along to the "Hank, why do you drink? Why do you roll smoke?" sections...I would often kill the sound feed during those parts and let them do it a capella lol Sometimes I'd be doing sound checks beforehand while the football game was still going on using death metal bands like Deicide, Death, Cannibal Corpse, etc. Boosters (parents of students and such) would typically be setting things up while this went on, and more than a few times I was asked "You aren't gonna be playing this kind of music for the dance, are you?'...always with a look of shock and concern on their faces 🤣
Gospel came first, country came from that. Also when it comes down to it, all music came from gospel and blues.
That isn't true country took from Mountain Music Irish Celtic music it's a lot of different things mixed into one
@@ki11atj49 your right...I should of not broadened it to All music. My bad 😉
Blues definitely had a strong influence in what came to be called country music
@@dard4642 and blues came from ragtime jazz, country is a descendent of dixieland jazz that was concurrent with ragtime. while everyone else was in vaudeville with big bands, 2 old boys in Oklahoma were pioneering the electric guitar, Robert Lee Dunn and Big Foot Hamilton, whose students Charlie Christian and T-bone Walker went on to Big band swing and jazz as well as jump blues, which would later become rock and roll. Charlie Christian's technical style is best represented by Django Reinhardt and T-bone Walker's influence is clear in Chuck Berry and B.B. King, as well as Jimi Hendrix.
@@azurephoenix9546 I always thought that blues was before jazz. I'm not arguing that it was; that's just what I thought.
Country, Blue Grass, Gospel, Blues, and Folk Songs are connected to each other. Rock and roll is connected to Blues. As is Jazz.
Dude 40 years ago I was born and listening to this man. It's a something the government hates, is us Country Boys playing Hank Jr and puting him at the top of the list
Check out Hank 3 he's like Hank Jr And Sr rolled into one he's great
Seconding this. 3 has such a wide variety of genres to his name too.
I've seen hank III in concert 6 times. I love how he splits his show into two segments. The first half is some good ol' country, and the second half is with his band Assjack which is some badass thrash punk/metal.
that because hes related to them lmao
I'm not a big country fan, but Hank Jr and David Allen Coe are two of my all time favorites
Love David Allan Coe!
Hank is the very definition of Outlaw Country. Him, Hank Sr, Waylon, Willie and David Allen Coe defined the genre! And they all smoked weed.
Hank Williams, Sr. grew up in the Baptist church culture. His mother played organ for the local church. It is natural that the Baptist Hymnal music had a profound on him. And since Hank, Sr had more influence on country music than any other artist before or since, that Baptist Hymnal influence stills remains.
Its my belief all music can be traced back to Gospel. Which is one of the reasons music will always bring people together with or without pews.
Knowing his history makes these songs make more sense and hit a lot deeper