Outlaw Roots — The Hank Jr. Legacy (Week 12)

Gonna Go Huntin’ Tonight 🎶 Here I Am Fallin’ Again

Hey yall… got two more good ones for you…
The first one’s fast… the second one slow…

As I was selecting the songs for this one… I was reminded of my first Hank concert…
I think I was 14… it was me… my best friend Joey… my good buddy Chris… and two neighbor girls… April and Ashley…

Ashley’s mother was a police officer… and she and the chief of police for our town took us all to the concert that night…

It was a crazy and fun night… I won’t go into details… other than just to say… everyone had a lil too much to drink… including Hank…

And I ended up spending the night at Ashley’s house… Got the T-shirt!

My mother was not happy the next day… cuz she was worried about me…
…but you know how us Gen X kids used to roll 😎…

So let’s get to the music…

🎵 Gonna Go Huntin’ Tonight
— Strong Stuff — 1983

🎵 Here I Am Fallin’ Again
— Habits Old and New — 1980

Oh! I also included a pic of the mountain Hank fell off… with a lil diagram… showing the path of his fall… just a miracle that he survived (it was 1975… Ajax Mountain near Wisdom, Montana)

Hope yall enjoy

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Outlaw Roots — The Hank Jr. Legacy (Week 9)

Feeling Better 🎶 Tuesday Gone..

For this week’s Hank post I picked two songs from very different moments in his career  “Feelin’ Better” comes from the album The New South (1977), a record that arrived not long after Hank’s near-fatal mountain fall in 1975 and marked the period where he really started breaking away from Nashville’s expectations and forging the Bocephus sound alongside the outlaw movement led by artists like Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson. Ten years later came “Tuesday’s Gone” on the album Wild Streak (1987), a southern-rock-leaning cover of the classic originally recorded by Lynyrd Skynyrd in 1973. By that point Hank was in the middle of a huge 80s run where Wild Streak produced multiple country hits like “Young Country,” proving that the rebellious sound he started building in the late 70s had fully taken hold.

Also a cool fact about “Tuesday’s Gone”… it’s one of the first songs I ever learned on guitar back in 1988. I didn’t even know at the time that it was a Skynyrd song — I thought it was a Bocephus original haha. I think it was about a year later when I finally learned the truth. 😁… it’s a beautiful cover..

So let’s get into the music… yall have a great weekend. 🎸

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