Born Randall Hank Williams inside Shreveport, Louisiana and known by the nickname Bocephus, he was raised by his mother Audrey & older brother Shane when his father's demise within 1953. He began performing after eight years old, & inside 1963 made his recording debut with Single No more Lonesome Blue, the staple of his father's career.

Fallowing recording a soundtrack to ''Your Cheatin' Heart, a life history of his father, Williams Jr hit a stock and index charts sustaining one of his have compositions, Substitute the Shadows. the song signalled a move to rock and roll & other influences as he stepped from either a shadow of his father, and he became better known for hits such as Personal Tradition & Born to Boogie-woogie''.

Williams' early career was guided, occasionally say unlimited dominated, by his mother Audrey Williams, world health organization numbers of claim was a drive that led his father to musical superstardom in a period of the early late 40s & early 50s. Audrey, within numerous ways, wished for immature Hank to become the clone of his father, every now and again running when far when to own material designed for him that were monovular to his father's stage fabric & that his vocal stylings & sounds were most monovular to victims of Hank Sr. Although Williams' recordings earned him many top tenner united states hits throughout a Sixties, he became enlightened by having his role as a "Hank Williams Clone" & cut off ties by using his mother sequentially to persue his have musical counsel & tastes. Per mid Seventies, Williams experienced finally incurred the musical counsel that would, eventually, produce him a mavin. Williams' unique blend of traditional United states by using Southern Rock & Blues earned him the devoted as punishment, although mainstream United states radio wouldn't touch his freshly songs therein blatantly nontraditional healthy.

When recording the series of hit songs, Williams began abusing doses including alcohol & inside time tried to commit suicide in 1974. Moving to Alabama, Williams began playing by having Southern rock musicians like Toy Caldwell, Marshall Tucker Band and Charlie Daniels.

Around 1975, he was severely injured around the mountaaround-climbing accident in Montana. A accident literally destroyed his face, shattering each bone inside his face & actually exposing his brain to open air. It would in time require Ix major surgeries to put his face back together once more. Sequentially to hide the many scars, Williams adopted the look that would turn into his trademark, a heavy good beard, ten-gallon hat, & dark shades Upon his recovery (which took ii years), Williams worked by having Waylon Jennings on The New South. He didn't email a stock and index charts over again until a late 1970s, with We Fought a Law (Bobby Fuller), Family Tradition & Whiskey Bent & Hell Attached. A singles, Personal Tradition & Whiskey Bent & Hell Attached sent Williams career into orbit. When you took a Eighties, Williams' scored there is no less than 35 top decade & first singles on the united states music stock & index charts & an telling string of gold, atomic number 78, and multi-platinum merchandising albums. Despite selling hundreds to thousands of albums, setting concert attendance records, & existence one of United states Music's large stars, Williams recieved super little recognition per united states music establishment. Williams' nontraditional approach, style, behavior, healthy, & Rock & Roll attitude wwhen seen as non existence "country enough" for hardcore united states stalwart inside a Nashvile music scene. Per mid-1980s, Williams took benefit of a emerging popularity of music training videos & shot the streaming video to showcase the lone, Entirely Our Raucous Friends Come Come across Tonight. A song became one of Williams' confessedly signature songs, due within peachy a portion to the streaming video that featured, quite literally, several of Williams' nearest friends, several of whom were among a virtually all recognizable list within music like George Jones, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, and George Thorogood. A streaming video for 100% Our Yobbo Friends became a number 1 streaming video to become known as Streaming Of The Month per United states Music Association within 1985. Williams' career began to hit it's peak fallowing his foremost taste of recognition per united states music establishment. His popularity got risen to such levels, he may there is no yearn become overlooked for major industry awards. Around 1986 & 1987, Williams was known as Entertainer Of The Month per United states Music Association. Within 1987, 1988, & 1989, he won a equivalent award from either a Academy of United states Music. When you took a 1980s, Williams became a united states music whizz known for catchy anthems & tough-edged rock-influenced united states. Per prevent of a decade, even so, the hits got begun to dry higher. The freshly generation of united states singers began to emerge that brought by owning the children songs & vocal stylings by using the extra traditional healthy. These singers, which would include Randy Travis, Alan Jackson, Vince Gill, and Garth Brooks, became known as Neo-Traditionalists. Williams' was nowadays seen at somewhat away from fashion by using this fresh hidebound movement. His previous major profits existence ''There's the Tear within The Beer, the duet by having his father created utilizing electronic dubbing techniques. A song itself was written by his father, presumptively, former between 1950 & 1953 & was recorded using Hank Sr. swimming upright his guitar. A music streaming video for the song combined existent television footage of Hank Williams Sr. performing & a dubbing techniques transferred a image of Hank Jr. onto a screen, and so it appeared when in case he were actually swimming sustaining his father. A videos was an overwhelming profits, two critically & commercially. It was known as Streaming video Of The Month by two a United states Music Association & a Academy of United states music. Hank Williams, Jr. would last within to win the Grammy award in 1990 for Right United states Vocal Collaboration.

Despite his slumping album sales, Hank Williams Jr. continued to become a popular concert draw in the period of the early Nineties & continued to record, sustaining many of his recordings in the period of this instance however managing to achieve gold status, selling 500,000 copies.

He is probably better known now when a performing artist of the theme song for Monday Night Football, based on Tons The Raucous Friends Come Come across Tonight". The opening theme became a classic, as much apart of the show as the football itself. In 1991, 1992, 1993, and 1994, Williams' opening themes for Monday Night Football would earn him four Emmy awards.

When not performing, Williams lives in on his compound outside of Missoula, where he spends his time composing new material, hunting & fishing.

Recently, he has made a cameo appearance along with Larry the Cable Guy, Kid Rock, and Charlie Daniels in Gretchen Wilson's music video for the song "100% Jacked Higher", whose album will be released at the end of September.

Discography
1963 - Songs of Hank Williams 1964 - The Era of Hank Williams 1965 - Ballads of the Hills & Plains 1966 - Blues My Name 1966 - Country Shadows 1967 - My Own Way 1968 - My Songs 1969 - Luke the Drifter, Jr. 1969 - Luke the Drifter, Jr., Vol. 2 1969 - Songs My Father Left Me 1969 - Your Cheatin' Heart Soundtrack (gold) 1970 - Luke the Drifter, Jr., Vol. 3 1970 - Sunday Morning 1972 - 11 Roses 1972 - Finders Are Keepers 1973 - After You/Pride's Not Hard to Swallow 1973 - Just Pickin', No Singin' 1974 - Living Proof 1974 - The Last Love Song 1975 - Bocephus 1976 - Hank Williams, Jr. and Friends (gold) 1977 - One Night Stands 1977 - The New South (gold) 1979 - Family Tradition (platinum) 1979 - Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound (platinum) 1980 - Habits Old and New (gold) 1981 - Rowdy (gold) 1981 - The Pressure Is On (2 x platinum) 1982 - Greatest Hits Vol. 1 (5 x platinum) 1982 - High Notes (gold) 1983 - Man of Steel (gold) 1983 - Strong Stuff (gold) 1984 - Major Moves (platinum) 1985 - Greatest Hits Vol. 2 (platinum) 1985 - Five-O (platinum) 1986 - Montana Cafe (gold) 1987 - Hank Live (platinum) 1987 - Born to Boogie (platinum) 1988 - Greatest Hits Vol. 3 (platinum) 1988 - Wild Streak(gold) 1990 - Lone Wolf (gold) 1991 - Pure Hank (gold) 1992 - Maverick (gold) 1993 - Out of Left Field 1994 - The Real Deal 1995 - Hog Wild (gold) 1996 - AKA Wham Bam Sam 1999 - Stormy 2002 - The Almeria Club Recordings 2003 - I'm One of You

Note: The sales indications for the albums are domestic sales only, not worldwide.