HANK WILLIAMS, JR.
Hank Williams Jr. (born May 26, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. He is the son of legendary country music singer Hank Williams. Williams began his career by following in his famed father's footsteps, singing his father's songs and imitating his father's style. Later, he challenged the country music establishment with a blend of country, rock, and blues. Williams enjoyed much success in the 1980's, from which he earned considerable recognition and popularity both inside and outside the country music industry. From 1989 until October 2011, a version of his song "All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight" was used as the opening for broadcasts of Monday Night Football. (More from Wikipedia)
If nothing else had sprung from there, northern Louisiana would still be renowned as the home of the Louisiana Hayride radio show, the direct antecedent of the even more legendary show from WSM Radio in Nashville, the Grand Ole Opry. However, this fertile musical landscape was also the home of artists as varied as the avant-garde (and anonymous) band the Residents, musical entrepreneur Dale Hawkins (whose song "Susie Q" was one of the first in the genre called "swamp rock" and was also the first hit song by Creedence Clearwater Revival), and a wealth of country stars like Trace Adkins (no relation to Hasil Adkins, as far as I know), Tim McGraw and Hank Williams, Jr. (father Hank Sr. was from Alabama).
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