Hank Williams was maybe the finest country singer that ever lived. He died on New Year’s Day 1953 when his son was just 3. Everybody in Nashville tried to push Hank Jr. into sounding exactly like his daddy. He finished writing an incomplete song of Hank Sr.’s and would reach the country Top 5 in a few weeks, just missing the Hot 100 here. It took a near-fatal fall from a Montana mountain for Bocephus to have an epiphany and break out of his father’s immense shadow.
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