The album was a huge smash, and jumpstarted Hank Jr. He released The New South in 1977, and aligned himself with the "outlaw" country music scene spearheaded by Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson. After two years of rehabilitation and constructive facial surgery, he returned to the music scene. Then in 1975, he nearly died when he fell 442 feet down the side of the rocky mountain he was trying to climb during a vacation in Montana. & Friends with many of the members from those groups and made his own successful country/rock fusion record. had to moonlight as a rock 'n' roller with a band called Rockin' Randall and the Rockets in order to stay afloat financially.īy the mid-1970s, he had developed a number of friendships with members the Southern rock scene - such as Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Allman Brothers, the Charlie Daniels Band and The Marshall Tucker Band - who had already been fusing country music and rock 'n' roll. Although he managed to make a living as a musician for the next seven or eight years, Hank Jr. kept up the tribute act for a few more years, before emerging with his own music on the record Standing in the Shadows. He also provided the music for the his father's biopic, Your Cheatin' Heart. By the time he was 17 (in 1964), he had a record deal with MGM (Hank Sr.'s label), doing an entire album of his father's classic hits. Hank Sr.'s widow, Audrey, noticed her son's musical prowess, and started him on the country music circuit performing his father's songs as early as age 11. was only six years old when his hard-drinking, road-warrioring father drank himself to death on New Years Eve 1953, he was around him long enough, during those early, formative years, to absorb and internalize the musical talent to carry on what his father had started, once he came of age. always had to live up to the enormous musical legacy of his late, great father, Hank Williams Sr. lead vocals, guitar Ray Barrickman - bass Vernon Derrick - fiddle, violin Billy Earheart - piano, keyboards Merle Kilgore - pedal steel, vocals Eddie Long - pedal steel Bill Marshall - drums Jerry McKinney - saxophone Lamar Morris - guitar Wayne Turner - guitarīorn in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1949, Hank Williams Jr.
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