![]() ![]() This section of a biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. In 1980, he appeared on the PBS show Austin City Limits during Season 5, along with the Shake Russell- Dana Cooper Band. In 1977, Williams recorded and released One Night Stands and The New South, and worked closely with his old friend Waylon Jennings on the song "Once and For All". The beard, hat, and sunglasses have since become Williams' signature look. To hide his scars and disfigurement from the accident, Williams grew a beard and began wearing sunglasses and a cowboy hat. ![]() The accident was chronicled in the semi-autobiographical, made-for-television film Living Proof: The Hank Williams Jr. Williams spent two years recovering, re-learning how to talk and sing, and undergoing 17 surgeries to repair his skull and reconstruct his face. While climbing Ajax Peak on the continental divide ( Idaho border) west of Jackson, the snow beneath Williams collapsed and he fell almost 500 feet (150 m) onto rock, causing multiple severe skull and facial fractures. On August 8, 1975, Williams was nearly killed while mountain climbing in southwestern Montana. and Friends (1975), often considered his watershed album, was the product of these then-groundbreaking collaborations. Upon moving to Alabama, in an attempt to refocus both his creative energy and his troubled personal life, Williams began playing music with Southern rock musicians including Waylon Jennings, Toy Caldwell, and Charlie Daniels. 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. Randall Hank Williams (born May 26, 1949), known professionally as Hank Williams Jr.
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