Hank Williams Jr. - Hank Williams Jr. Live at Cobo Hall Detroit (Live From Cobo Hall / 1969) '1969 / 2025

Tracks list

	Tracklist:

1. Hank Williams, Jr. – Intro (Live From Cobo Hall / 1969) (00:14)
2. Hank Williams, Jr. – Jambalaya (Live From Cobo Hall / 1969) (01:49)
3. Hank Williams, Jr. – Detroit City (Live From Cobo Hall / 1969) (03:10)
4. Hank Williams, Jr. – Games People Play (Live From Cobo Hall / 1969)
(01:47)
5. Hank Williams, Jr. – Standing In The Shadows (Live From Cobo Hall /
1969) (03:34)
6. Hank Williams, Jr. – Foggy Mountain Breakdown (Live From Cobo Hall /
1969) (02:08)
7. Hank Williams, Jr. – You Win Again (Live From Cobo Hall / 1969)
(03:02)
8. Hank Williams, Jr. – She Thinks I Still Care (Live From Cobo Hall /
1969) (02:57)
9. Hank Williams, Jr. – Darling, You Know I Wouldn't Lie (Live From Cobo
Hall / 1969) (03:44)
10. Hank Williams, Jr. – I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry (Live From Cobo Hall
/ 1969) (02:40)
11. Hank Williams, Jr. – Your Cheatin' Heart (Live From Cobo Hall / 1969)
(02:19)
12. Hank Williams, Jr. – I Saw The Light (Live From Cobo Hall / 1969)
(01:31)


 moreThe son of Hank and Audrey Williams, Hank Jr. was born in Shreveport,
Louisiana, in 1949. Less than four years later, his father died, leaving behind
a huge legacy. When Hank Jr. was eight years old, Audrey decided to push her son
into the spotlight, positioning him as the rightful heir to his father's legacy.
Dressed in a white Nudie suit, he would sing Hank Sr.'s biggest hits on package
tours, and by the time he was 11, he had made his first appearance on the Grand
Ole Opry. After a few years of touring, Hank Jr.'s voice broke in 1963. As soon
as his voice changed, Audrey had her son sign a contract with MGM Records.

Hank Jr. recorded his father's "Long Gone Lonesome Blues" as his debut single,
and the record was a hit upon its early 1964 release, climbing to number five.
Later that year, he sang all the material for the Hank Williams, Sr. biopic Your
Cheatin' Heart and starred in the film A Time to Sing. Though he immediately had
a hit, he wasn't able to follow it up with another Top Ten hit until 1966, when
his self-penned "Standing in the Shadows" reached number five. By that time, he
had begun to grow tired of his reputation as a Hank Williams imitator and was
trying to create his own style, as "Standing in the Shadows" proved. Following
that single, he began to explore rock & roll somewhat, occasionally performing
under the name Rockin' Randall.

Despite his half-hearted rock & roll attempts, Williams continued to concentrate
on country music, turning out a string of hit singles, including the number one
"All for the Love of Sunshine" and a number of inspirational cuts released under
the name Luke the Drifter, Jr., a reference to his father's alter ego. Though
his career was doing well, Hank Jr. began falling into drug and alcohol abuse
after he turned 18 years old. His personal life became progressively more
complicated, culminating in a suicide attempt in 1974. Following the attempt,
Williams moved to Alabama, where he not only got his life together, but he
changed his musical direction as well. Hooking up with Southern rockers like
Charlie Daniels and the Marshall Tucker Band's Toy Caldwell, he recorded Hank
Williams, Jr. & Friends, which fused hardcore country with rock & roll. Though
he wasn't scoring as many hits as he had in the early '70s, his music was
becoming more original and focused.

Just as his career was being revived, tragedy beset Williams. While he was
climbing a mountain in Montana in 1975, he fell 442 feet down the side of the
mountain. His injuries were serious -- his skull was split and his face was
crushed -- but he survived. Following extensive reconstructive cosmetic surgery,
he had to relearn how to speak and sing. Williams' recovery period lasted a full
two years. When he re-emerged in 1977, he aligned himself with the outlaw
country movement, as Waylon Jennings produced Hank Jr.'s comeback effort, The
New South. It took several years before Williams began to have hits again -- his
biggest hit in the late '70s was a cover of Bobby Fuller's "I Fought the Law,"
which reached number 15 -- but in the final six months of 1979 he had two Top
Ten singles, "Family Tradition" and "Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound," which began a
virtually uninterrupted streak of 29 Top Ten hits that ran into 1988.

Throughout the '80s, Hank Jr. was one of the most popular, and controversial,
figures in country music. Following his image makeover, he appealed primarily to
young and rowdy crowds with his hell-raising anthems and jingoistic ballads.
Though he had established his own distinctive style, he continued to name-check
and pay tribute to his father, and these salutes became as much a part of his
act as his redneck rockers. Both the wild music and the party-ready atmosphere
of his concerts made Hank Jr. an immensely popular musician and helped him cross
over into the rock & roll audience. Williams' career really began to take off in
1981, when he had three number one hits -- "Texas Women," "Dixie on My Mind,"
and "All My Rowdy Friends (Have Settled Down)" -- and Rowdy began a streak of 15
gold or platinum albums that ran until 1990. During that time, he won several
awards, including back-to-back Country Music Association Entertainer of the Year
in 1987 and 1988.

By the end of the decade, Hank Jr.'s persona was becoming a little tired,
especially in light of the new breed of clean-cut new country singers who had
taken over Nashville. Williams could still have a hit -- such as "There's a Tear
in My Beer," which was an electronic duet between him and his father -- but by
the end of 1990 he was no longer hitting the Top Ten and by the middle of the
decade he had trouble reaching the Top 40. Despite his declining record sales,
Hank Jr. remained a popular concert draw into the latter half of the '90s, as
well as a relatively prolific character in the studio. His string of new albums
tapered off in the early 2000s, with 2003's I'm One of You marking his final
album for several years. Hank Jr. returned toward the decade's end, however,
with 127 Rose Avenue appearing in 2009.

Arriving in 2012, Old School New Rules, which featured guest appearances by Brad
Paisley and Trace Adkins, was the first release for Williams on his own Bocephus
Records, an independent label based in Nashville, and marked how much Williams
had taken over control of all aspects of his work and career. Four years later,
he returned to the big time by signing with Nash Icon -- the subsidiary of Big
Machine designed for country heritage acts -- and releasing It's About Time in
January 2016. Upon its release, the album peaked at two on Billboard's Country
charts and 15 on the Top 200.

After a six-year hiatus, during which time he was inducted into the Country
Music Hall of Fame in 2020, Hank Williams, Jr. resurfaced on Easy Eye Sound --
the label run by Black Key Dan Auerbach -- in 2022 with Rich White Honky Blues,
a down-and-dirty blues album featuring Auerbach and his key Easy Eye Sound
session pros. © Stephen Thomas Erlewine



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