Hank Williams Jr. -- Family Tradition [REVIEW/RATING]
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ต.ค. 2024
- Hank Jr. brings some old-time country facts to the table in this classic country song, and it might make you sing along...
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When he talked about "disowned a few others and me" he was talking about his country music family. People were not happy that Hank wasn't singing like his daddy. He stuck to it and is what you see today. The family tradition was his dad was always stoned or drunk. Also he fell off a cliff and almost died. It took him a long time to come back to us. His daughter was killed recently in a car accidentl.
He was also barred from Grand old opry
@@jojoeastwood3910 Hank Sr. Was fired from the opry, not Hank Jr.
I've quote literally been searching for the explanation to those exact lyrics!!! Thank you. Can't find anything about it on Google, although, I was searching for stuff related to his actual kinfolk, like family. Appreciate your comment
Watching this review for my brother who passed away a year ago. True story, he sang this to me when I was a baby to put me to sleep. Rest in peace big brother.
I dint think your giving this song the recognition it deserves. Thank was struggling with finding is own path, people only wanted to hear him do his dad's music. He wAnted more this drove him down the sAme road as his dad. Drinking, pills, women Nd it killed his dad. In 1975 Hank had a accident where he fell down a mountain. Most didn't think he word survive. After that he did the music he wanted and his success in the 1980s was like nothing since. I think at one time he had like 6 albums in the top 50 on billboard.
Jr lost an eye falling off that mountain. He has always worn dark glasses since then.
Plus wares the beard to cover the scars I heard...
When he says they tried to kill him back in 1973, is around the time he fell off a mountain he was climbing.
The movie is, Living Proof: The Hank Willams Jr. Story.
Onee of the reasons he wears a beard is to cover the scars.
This was a big finger to Nashville music people with the start of the outlaw sound back in the late 70s 73 if I remember right was the years
He feel on the mountain and almost died
Q: You know the difference between a Violin and a Fiddle?
A: A Violin has strings, and a Fiddle has strangs.
@scott harris LOL!! I'm totally gonna use that one. Welcome aboard the channel!
I learned that joke from this Fiddle song
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This is my theme song.
Why do you drink? To get drunk
Why do you roll smoke? To get high
Why do you live out the songs that you wrote? To get laid
Play this song in any bar and these are the responses y’all will get from the crowd. 🎸🔥❤️☮️👵🏼
Aaahhh Bocephus, need to listen to country boy can survive 🙌
Ive said it before-and this isnt mine.but country music is 3 chords and the truth..simple! But it just gets in you. Spot on reaction.. grew up on hank jr and sr! Good ole country👍 thankx don.. dan.4/10/22
Family tradition is more about country music family
Or about his dad
The ones who disowned him were mainstream country. He was among the Outlaws. Guys like David Allen Coe, Waylon Jennings' Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash. I'm not sure about Coe, but these other 3 have all been on something at one time or another. In fact, Waylon referenced his own problems w/ the whole drug thing in the song. "Don't you think this outlaw bit's done got out of hand". Coe wrote "Take this job and shove it" and George Jones, who drank alot, was supposed to record it, but never showed. Johnny Paycheck recorded it. Waylon referenced that story in the song "It's Alright".
When he was singing
Some of my kin folk have disowned and a few others and me. He was singing about the group of artists like. His buddy's waylon and David Allen coe .and himself.they disowned .... His family of old country artists. Some of his fans that only wanted him to sing his daddy songs and critics . .They did not like the new upbeat stuff and their bold lifestyles .And Hank Jr had one more hill to climb .Half his fans wanted him to just do his daddy's songs .The other half like him to do new stuff .And liked his stuff ..That was why he was the spokesman for disowning a few others and me. . . And yes the earlier generation did not mind a drinking lifestyle . But getting high on other stuff oh no .lol. Yes dukes of Hazzard song was perhaps waylons best song in a list of great songs. And David Allen coe had You never even called me by my name. And Jones had He stopped loving her today. But family tradition is the best country song of all time. He stopped loving her number 2 and you never even called me #3 and dukes of Hazzard #4 .farewell party gene watson #5 . and i will always love you dolly #t 6 .at least it should be .in that order .For about 10 years family tradition and you never even called my by my name were the most requested songs on radio .number one and number 2 .Then it changed to born to boogie .and you never even called me by my name .for about 8 more years ..Hank Jr is a very smart performer and sings about his daddy and sometimes sings his daddy's songs. Or speaks about his daddy in concert.and on record ..He know he has a big group of people to please ..So he is smart enough to give something for everyone ..Bit he will show you he is not a one trick pony. He can do rock. He can do country rock .He can do blues and he can do jazz ..and also done a few rap songs. . my favorite song by Hank is ain't misbehavin .But oh hell it ain't country. So it. Should not be his #1 on the country all time list. Like family tradition. ..and yes Jim beam and women both tried to kill him. Back in 1973 . ...Was about him falling off the mountain .And I thought it different when merle sang I'm always on a mountain when I fall ..Then when merle sang after writing 660 songs he ran out of songs so he borrowed one from Hank Jr. .kicking out the floodlights again ...Also he knows that country is fiddles and steel guitar. His dad's style. .I been to his concerts about 60 times since 1985. .many kinds of musical performers have opened for him rockers traditional country artists and country groups. .and country rockers .and middle of the road country artist. ..
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Hank Jr "American Way" ....you won't be disappointed!!!!!!!!!
Hank dont claim to be from Louisiana he just was born there bc his dad was working there, Alabama is his home state, he was raised there with his family and in Nashville
Steven Kyle I believe Cullman is where he calls home most of the time nowadays. Or it was at one time.
The background on that is I am Hank Williams jr. Fan and his mom Audrey put them on stage at 8 years old and started singing his daddy's songs and then when he turned about 1819 he wanted to do his songs and stuff and in 1975 he had a climbing up Ajax mountain in Montana where he has a second home and he fell about 575 ft down and destroyed himself almost.
Love this song. I think he's singing about two family traditions - traditional country music and his Dad's tradition. In 1973, Hank almost died in a horrible climbing accident. We are really lucky that he is still around.
The family he was referring to was his country music family. They were on him for his substance abuse issues. He was just trying to make a point that his country music family was trying to disown him, and Hank's point to his detractors was that getting drunk and stoned was a family tradition, as his father did it too.
Very interesting, thank you for this
A good song is infectious.
He fell down Ajax Mountain in Wyoming and scraped off most of his face and almost died. It was in 1973.
Favorite bonfire music!!
Sitting around drinking whisky on a cold night.....
That's My Love Family Tradition 🥰💞💦😎
You are not giving this song it's due. This is Hank more or less telling his life story and the struggles he had trying to break out from being just a parody of his father and make his own way in life.
@Edward Pate Can't argue with that, as I didn't know the history of the song when I reacted to it as I was new to traditional country.
Hank Jr was put on stage at 8 years old. At 15 he sang the soundtrack for the 1964 movie about his fathers life. Jr can sound JUST like Sr. Then in the early 1970's he was sheep hunting when he fell over 500 feet down the face of Ajax mountain. Luckily, a boulder stopped his fall. The only problem was, it is never a good idea to land on a boulder with your face and head. The reason Jr wears the glasses and the beard is the fact that he lost an eye, and had total facial reconstruction. His brain was also exposed. Listen to the interviews Jr has given about this experience.
You may double check one fact in this comment, I believe he was rock climbing, not too sure about sheep hunting 🤔
This song is factual. In 1973 he went Montana on a mountain climbing adventure and fell and almost killed him. Left scars and he covered it up by drinking
This is literally my favorite song by this bo, besides "dinosaur" .
dont forget weather man brother
All my rowdy friends
You NEED to do Loretta Lynn's Ruby's Stool!
1973 he fell off cliff in montana
Thank you. Lol finally someone else knows what that means!
In the beginning of this song when he talks about how country music singers are a close knit family and that some of his kinfolk has disowned him the kinfolk that he his talking about was the country music singers in Nashville and part of the Grand Ole Opry were not very keen on the Outlaw country music sound that he had in his songs at that time and also when he talks about drinking and smoking and that he is talking about carrying out his family tradition he is talking about his dad Hank Willams sr. That was family tradition that he was carrying on and about what happened to him in 73 was something that actually did happen to him in real life for a complete recollection of what happened to him search for CMT giants Toby Keith sings a country boy can survive
At any bar or concert, anywhere they play this song, when he says why do you drink,everyone says to get drunk, why do you roll smoke they yell to get stoned, why must you live out the songs that you wrote, they yell to get laid and all of that...is Family Tradition!!!
Before Hanks accident he looked just like his dad but case of scares he grew a beard. Plus Hanks dad drank like crazy.
I think the family that disowned his was Nashville country music scene who didn’t approve of the rough living. That’s one family tradition. But he was pointing out that his own personal family tradition is that lifestyle as that’s what his dad did and if I’m not mistaken what killed his dad.
That makes a lot of sense. Not sure if it's right, but it sounds like it has a good chance of being a big part of the story.
My favorite Hank Williams Jr song. That means my favorite song.
Falling off a mountain in Montana was what almost killed him..
True story, he almost died when fell off the mountain..
His song, Hotel Whiskey, is a good one about getting drunk.
I don't know if I posted this on one of your videos yet but Hank, Sr's mother and my grandmother were best friends in Alabama.
Hank Williams Jr ( pink slip blues) awesome song
Takes me back to my Navy days and an old shipmate that love Hank Jr
Good stuff, SHG!!
@ 4:04 - What? Earlier, Hank Jr makes it clear ... the 'family' that is disowning him is the Country Music family, not his kin. Country radio wouldn't play his songs and award shows snubbed him because they believed he was dishonoring Hank Sr by the way he lived. Hank Jr is telling country music that this tradition is one his father partook in and passed onto him. Simply put, Bo is telling country music to phuck off because my daddy did it too. - The More You Know!
But, I do love your enthusiasm!
@Fistie Splinters It's always clear to people who have heard the song many times. When it's your first time listening, and you're dissecting the many aspects of a song (lyircs, instrumentation, tempo, voice, etc.), it's easy to miss some things.
@Fistie Splinters Thanks. What you're seeing in my videos is someone who came later to the red-dirt/outlaw/traditional/Americana genre, so you're getting to peer into someone's acquisition of the genre, not necessarily his knowledge of it. Although I've learned a lot in the eight months or so that I switched over from Nashville country to non-Nashville country.
Love the classic country ❤
This is a country classic. I never viewed this song as a funny song I always viewed it as a homage to his way of doing things just like his dad. Both of them went against the grain of country music at the time a and both forged a new avenue for the future. Just think all those songs Hank Sr. Didn't write because he was dead at 31! Even at 31 he wrote more than most people ever do.
Good stuff, Wendel. Having grown up listening to rock I wasn't up on all the nuances of the country musicians and their lives. It's a funny thing about songs, in that they mean different things to different people. I've seen a number of Hank Jr.'s interviews in the last decade, as well as his additional fame from Monday Night Football, and he's frequently a funny guy. So when listening to a song like Family Tradition it's easy to read his current humor back into a song like that.
Hank Williams Sr.(a true classic country musician) died at the age of 29(not 31) from a mix of Barbituates(heavy-duty painkillers) & alcohol. He also divorced, remarried, & had a kid w/a girlfriend.
Damn! I love this song. Even though I don't drink and I don't roll.
To me, this song was the shot heard round the world. A statement of purpose for listening to country music.
Hank tended to make statements, but they were statements that most folks agreed with.
@@RockN2Country need to check out the song Opening Act by Mary Chapin Carpenter =you will laugh
I think you may have misread this song.
At the beginning, he says "country music singers have always be a real close family. But lately some of my kinfolk have disowned a few others and me". He is talking about the country music industry.
He then says it's because he changed his direction. When he was young, he idolized his dad. Those music executives shoehorned him into playing his father's music. He played his dad's music for years. His change in direction was his decision to stop playing his dad's music and set his own course. His handlers didn't like that at all. They were making plenty of money riding on his father's name/coattails. He broke the music industry's family tradition.
Later in the song he says to stop and think about his position. "If I get stoned and sing all night long, it's a family tradition"... he is referring to the fact that his dad was a drunk and drug addict. Technically, that is a family tradition for him.
We've commented a bit back and forth a few times, but I don't think I've taken the time to let you know that I really enjoy what you do (I guess I just like to talk old country). You have a very relaxed and down to earth quality about you, and I appreciate the honesty of your reactions. You do good work, Sir! I hope you continue doing what you do.
Sorry, I wrote that comment half way through the song. The whole almost getting killed thing is real. He fell down a mountain and needed 8 reconstructive surgeries to get put back together. Here's a link to a clip of him on Letterman back in '82. It covers his struggle to be his own artist and his run in with the mountain. The line by Letterman at the end is priceless!!!
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@James DeMarco Thank you for the breakdown on the song--that was seriously insightful and detailed!! Also, thank you for the. kind words about me and the way I do the videos---I am humbled and grateful, to put it mildly.
The Grand Ole Opry must have been run by a bunch of tea-totlers when they fired Hank Sr for his drinking, circa 1950. The Opry had already made him swap the word beer for the word milk in "My buckets got a hole in it", but It did little good,== because the crowds would yell out "beer", when he sang "milk". They may have disowned Hank Sr, but I would say that at the the time, he pretty much owned Country and Western music.
I've since learned that their problem with Hank Sr. was that he was a no-show too often, which, in fairness to the Opry, is a legit problem. Before Whitney Houston died she was a no-show so often that none of the insurance companies would insure her. It can be a legit issue, even if you're a mega star.
His mom was pushing Hank to be his dad. He had to dress like his daddy and perform all of his dad's songs. When I started singing his own songs his mom and his dad's fans was furious!!! He had to fight to be an individual and I went about it in the wrong ways but he finally found himself!!!!
It's suppose to be he not I!!! Auto correct
Gotta love a "Family Tradition"
The family he's talking about is the people of country music ! Not his birth family ! Most people in country music at that time were God fearing , church going people , if you wasn't that type of person you were considered a Outlaw or a Outcast !
Good stuff, Jeff---thanks for the education!
Imo, "family" is a double entendre. It is both "country music singers", as stated in the song's opening line, and the fact that Hank is his father's son. In both cases, Hank is following a family tradition, while charting his own course musically.
His country music family disowned him. He is saying that his family tradition is to get drunk and high and singing all night long is his family tradition.
I think the 'family' is the country music family.
To me, it was the big bang of that era of country music...
He's referring to nashville disowning him and referring to his country music family not his birth family
Hank, why do you drink
**To get drunk!**
Hank, why do you roll smoke
**To get high!**
Why must you live out the songs that you wrote
**To get laid!**
He started performing at age 9, but he dressed like his dad and sang his dad's songs. When he decided to start singing his own songs, record labels, radio stations, his fans, etc weren't happy about it at all. However, he did his own thing no matter what they said.... Just like his Dad did. That's where the "Family Tradition" came from.
*Hank III went through the same thing when he started. They dressed him up like his granddaddy and sing his songs, instead of letting him do what he wanted. So the "Family Tradition" lives on.
* Check out Hank III at the Opry. He looks and sounds exactly like Hank Sr. !!!
The picture is clearer and clearer every day!!
@RockN2Country guess who I'll be seeing play in Ol T-Town (Tuscaloosa, Home of the Tide!) on June 14.... Hank Jr!!! Couldn't help but laugh when I read your comments and then read my email about the concert announcement right after 😂😂😂
@Sabrina King You've got an exciting concert coming up next week!!!
@@RockN2Country Yesss!! 4 days and counting! 😁 And you better believe it's going to be loud and wild the whole time! I'll try to get a video of every one singing "Family Tradition" ...with the crowd singing the "chant" above. The concert is in the University of Alabama's back yard, so it'll definitely be an all night event.
As Hank Jr said, "Cause All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight" 😉
❤️🐘❤️ Roll Tide! ❤️🐘❤️
*Thanks for remembering, Don! 🥰
you need to check out Hank and Ray Charles together
Aw man this is a classic. I live about 15 miles where they have Hank Williams Day every year where there are various bands performing. It's a weekend thing. You should have rated it but hey that's OK.
Sometimes Hank is too cool for me to judge. ;-)
#RockN2Country Love Hank Jr. Couple of suggestions for Jr. 'Born to Boogie' and "If It Will, It Will. As a tribute to Merle Haggard's 'Working Man Blues' I suggest Steve Wariner, LeRoy Parnell and Diamond Rio it is so very good. Beautiful harmonies and great guitar picking.
@Jimi Adams I did Hank's song a few months back. here's the link--enjoy! th-cam.com/video/WNSxhCGSwDw/w-d-xo.html
Look up the background. His dad OD and he fell down a mountain and nearly died. It's why he wears the glasses.
check out Hank and the late Ray Charles doing Two Old CATS
Love the New South album. Obscure to average fan but great album. I’ve Got Rights.
This is the second video I've seen of yours & the second one I've seen u do of Hanks. In so many words the 73 part is true. I'm Hank fan. Would u do one that not so well known? It is Knoxville courthouse blues, by HWjr
Hey Jesse, thanks for the rec---it's on the list now. :-)
Thanks
Watch the movie about Hank Jr.
People tried to turn on Hank for the same reason they are attacking Blake Shelton!!! Just because their songs arent exactly the same doesnt mean its not country and great!!!!
Its a family tradition because that's what his dad and other Artists did but they didn't write about it as much as the " Outlaws" did
To get drunk
To get stoned
To get laid
HANK WILLIAMS JR BOCEPHUS # 1
Hank had an accident and crushed his face and was laid up for a while before he came back (1973)
Try some Doug Kershaw, specifically Diggy Diggy Lo.
He fell down the side of a mountain and almost died.
Love Bocephus.
Check out some of hank the 3rds country tracks
I think he almost over dosed that year or may have been when he fell off the mountain in Montana
Hey try cajun baby it so rocks. Plz ty
Its not really a fun Fact but as far as I know Its True and you can watch the movie based on Hank Sr In The Movie Hank Sr ask a Nurse He The Daughter He Had Was Born With Spina Bifida
I Think it was a Miled case but as Far as I know He was and for those of you that dont know what spina bifida is its where your spine separates
The lower down the Separation in your back
Is the most server case witch causes you to be in a Wheelchair
Witch is me Ive had Spina Bifida All my life
Can you do Waylon Jennings and Hank Williams jr the conversation
Yep. It's on the list now. Will take a few weeks, but I'll react to it.
@@RockN2Country thanks
Great review. The “family” that disowned “a few others and me” was the traditional country music establishment at that time. This was when “outlaw country” was becoming popular. The establishment did not approve of Hank, Willie, and Waylon’s style and the fact they changed from traditional country to outlaw. Check out some old vids of these guys singing ballads in the 1960’s. Wow! Also, Hank did have an accident in 1973 where he was hiking and fell down a mountain and almost died. He was high / drunk. He messed up his face pretty badly. Hence the long hair, sunglasses, and beard (to hide the scars).
Good stuff, Michael. And that accident of Hank's was a doozy.
"Getting high is not prevalent in Country music" Ever heard of Willie 😆
Definitely, but getting high isn't a theme in the songs of country music the way it is in other genres. Now getting drunk, on the other hand....
do ELVIS Presley. there goes my Everything live version on. that's the way it is concert 1973.
Do some hank Williams Jr I've got Rights
Just added it to the list. Thanks for the rec.
Never meet a Hank I didn't like !
its a complicated one this but have to agree with you not rating it - its too usual for me if you get my jist - some country artist sing these types of songs a lot and it bugs me xxxx
In your reactions, sometimes your interpretations are a bit too literal. I think he is talking about the country music "family" not his actual family.
@Ken Mancini No doubt about it, as language is so expansive and colorful that a first listen, or a first listen with headphones, can take one in different directions. When it comes to the Williamses, their musical family is so big that the song could have made sense if he was restricting it his father, himself and kids, but you're right about it being about the broader country music community. That's one of the things I love about doing these songs, is the challenge of figuring it out, typically on a first time hearing a song based on a subscriber request. It's also a risk since sometimes I look or sound ridiculous, but that's nothing my sisters haven't told everyday since we were growing up. Ha!!
@@RockN2Country This by far is my favorite Hank Williams Jr. song--I remember when it first was released during the 1970s. I was going to suggest some songs by other artists from the 1960s and 1970s but I'm not sure which ones you've already done. My all-time favorite artist is George Jones (he's the king of heartbreak songs). If you haven't done them already I'd like to suggest "The Window Up Above" and "She Thinks I Still Care".
Hank III blows his daddy away.
bullshit
Hank III is a living ghost of Sr. minus the long hair. But it's what sets him apart from the three of them as well as his personal musical style... They're all great, Sr, Jr, and III.
Hank Williams Sr. is(or should I say was?) the best Hank Williams.