While recording a series of moderately successful songs, Williams began a pattern of heavy drug and alcohol abuse. A change in appearance and musical direction Īlthough Williams' recordings earned him numerous country hits throughout the 1960s and early 1970s with his role as a "Hank Williams impersonator", he became disillusioned and severed ties with his mother.īy the mid-1970s Williams began to pursue a musical direction that would eventually make him a superstar. He also recorded an album of duets with recordings of his father. He provided the singing voice of his father in the 1964 film Your Cheatin' Heart. In 1964, Williams made his recording debut with " Long Gone Lonesome Blues", one of his father's many classic songs. He attended John Overton High School in Nashville, Tennessee, where he would bring his guitar to music class and play for pep rallies and performances of the choir. Williams first stepped on the stage and sang his father's songs when he was eight years old. Among these figures of influence were Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, Fats Domino, Earl Scruggs, Lightnin' Hopkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis. While he was a child, a number of contemporary musicians visited his family, who influenced and taught him various music instruments and styles. After his father's death in 1953, he was raised by his mother, Audrey Williams. His father nicknamed him Bocephus (after Grand Ole Opry comedian Rod Brasfield's ventriloquist dummy). Williams was born Randall Hank Williams on May 26, 1949, in Shreveport, Louisiana. was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. As a multi-instrumentalist, Williams' repertoire of skills includes guitar, bass guitar, upright bass, steel guitar, banjo, dobro, piano, keyboards, saxophone, harmonica, fiddle, and drums. After an extended recovery, he rebuilt his career in the country rock scene. His career was interrupted by a near-fatal fall while Williams was climbing Ajax Peak in Montana on August 8, 1975. Later that year, he was a guest star on Shindig! Īs Williams struggled to define his own voice and place within the country music genre, his style began to slowly evolve. Williams' first television appearance was in a December 1963 episode of The Ed Sullivan Show, in which at age fourteen he sang several songs associated with his father. Williams began his career following in his famed father's footsteps, covering his father's songs and imitating his father's style. He is also the half brother of Jett Williams. He is the son of country musician Hank Williams and the father of musicians Holly Williams and Hank Williams III, and the grandfather of Coleman Williams. His musical style has been described as a blend of rock, blues, and country. or Bocephus, is an American singer-songwriter and musician. Habits Old and New would eventually be certified Gold by the RIAA, making it his fourth career Gold album and his third consecutive Gold while signed with Curb.Randall Hank Williams (born May 26, 1949), known professionally as Hank Williams Jr. On Canadian RPM Country Albums, It reached at number # 7. The song was included in Hank Jr.’s thirty-first studio album, Habits Old and New (Elektra / Curb 1980), the album was released in June 1980, reaching number # 4 of the US Top Country Albums charts, on August 12, 1980, with a total of 95 weeks remaining on the charts. On the Canadian RPM Country Tracks charts, It reached at number # 58. With Jimmy Bowen’s production, the song was released on August 30, 1980, and October 25 of 1980, reached number # 6 of the US Hot Country Songs charts, remaining on the charts a total of 13 weeks. Wilson, Rock Killough and Sonny Throckmorton (background vocals). Shane Keister (keyboards and synthesizer) + Muscle Shoals Horns + Dennis W. was accompanied by: Rock Killough (rhythm guitar), Leo Jackson (rhythm guitar), Reggie Young (electric guitar), Dan Eckley (electric guitar), Randy Scruggs (acoustic guitar), Kieran Kane (mandolin), Bobby Thompson (banjo), Dick Overbey (steel amd percussion), Joe Osborn (bass), Larrie Londin and Jerry Carrigan (drums), Lisa Silver-Reynolds and Rufus Thibodeaux (fiddle), Larry Knechtel and Bobby Emmons (keyboards), J. for the Elektra / Curb label, was recorded during the spring of 1980, at Sound Stage Studio, 10 Music Circle South, Nashville, TN, at the album recording session Hank Jr. “Old Habits”, a song written and recorded by Hank Williams Jr.
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