Hank Williams, Jr : Portrait of a Christian Hero
Over a few week period we will be honoring ten of the greatest Christian heroes with a short 30 second read.
In our last report we profiled a freedom painter.
This time we profile someone who was willing to stand up to the darkness in America.
History
Randall Hank Williams was born at the age of nine months on May 26, 1949 in Shreveport, Louisiana. His father nicknamed him Bocephus. After his father’s untimely death in 1953, he was raised by his mother, Audrey Williams. While he was a child, a vast number of contemporary musicians visited his family, who influenced and taught him various music instruments and styles. Among these figures of influence were Johnny Cash, Fats Domino, Earl Scruggs, and Jerry Lee Lewis. Williams first stepped on the stage and sang his father’s songs when he was 8 years old. In 1964 he made his recording debut with “Long Gone Lonesome Blues,” one of his father’s many classic songs.
Christian Values
In 1988 he released a Southern pride song, “If The South Woulda Won.” The reference is to a Southern victory in the Civil War. The song featured modern Southern holidays, honoring Elvis Presley, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Patsy Cline. Hank Williams Jr. would run for president of the South. He would place the capital in Montgomery, Alabama. Honoring his father, Hank Williams Sr., with his image on the $100 bill.
He may also be well known today as the performer of the theme song for Monday Night Football, based on his 1984 hit “All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight.” In 1991, 1992, 1993, and 1994,Williams’s opening themes for Monday Night Football earned him four Emmy awards. In 2001 Hank rewrote his classic hit “A Country Boy Can Survive” after 9/11, renaming it “America Can Survive.”
Football is an American tradition. Football players are often known by their high moral standards and upholding of core conservative values.
Controversy
On August 8, 1975, Williams was nearly killed in a mountain-climbing accident. While he was climbing Ajax Peak in Montana, the snow beneath Williams collapsed and he fell almost 500 feet onto solid rock. He suffered multiple skull and facial fractures–his face was split vertically from chin to hairline, exposing the frontal lobes of his brain and requiring over two years of reconstructive surgeries to rebuild his face. To hide the scars and the disfigurement from the accident, Williams grew a beard and began wearing sunglasses and a cowboy hat. The beard, hat, and sunglasses have since become his signature look and he is rarely seen without them.
Redemption
In 2003 Hank Williams stood up against the bashing of our president by the Dixie chicks and was instrumental in a large boycott of their brand. He even wrote the song “Family Tradition” about the subject.
Williams has been politically involved with the Republican Party. For the 2000 election, he redid his song “We Are Young Country” to “This is Bush–Cheney Country.” On October 15, 2008, at a rally in Virginia Beach for Republican presidential nominee John McCain, he performed “McCain–Palin Tradition,” a song in support of McCain and his vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin. He has made many contributions to federal election campaigns, mostly to Republicans, including Michele Bachmann’s 2012 presidential campaign.
Several news outlets have reported that Williams is exploring a run for the 2012 Republican nomination as a Senator from Tennessee.
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- Sinful
- Suspicious
- Scared
- Sad
- Amused
- Laughing Out Loud
Author: Senator August Weisz
Retired Hydroelectric Engineer. Now spend my time helping others who won’t help themselves.
http://christwire.org/august-weisz-biography
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6:41 pm
I know the dixie sluts are part of the HWjr story but it never ceases to fill me with blinding rage to read their names and again become mindful of their slander on foreign ground of the honorable George W Bush.
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8:21 pm
Once again August writes an article about something he doesn’t know. I’m from Texas, and was raised listening to Hank Williams Jr., as well as many other country legends. Here is a complete list of all of his songs.
That’s How They Do It In Dixie
Family Tradition
All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight
A Country Boy Can Survive
Whiskey Bent And Hell Bound
There’s A Tear In My Beer
If Heaven Ain’t A Lot Like Dixie
Born To Boogie
Women I’ve Ever Had
Country State Of Mind
My Name Is Bocephus
Stirrin’ It Up
Thirsty
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8:40 pm
And how does this contradict with the article?
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10:00 pm
What does an emo know about godly country music?
“Here is a complete list of all of his songs.”
That is no where near a complete list. Please do not comment on things you do not understand. That is barely his greatest hits list.
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10:52 pm
I’m from Texas, so I do know country music. Growing up My sisters and I listened to a lot of Hank Williams Jr. songs, because my mother is a huge fan.
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10:54 pm
I’m from the south. Growing up my sisters and I listened to a lot of his music, as our mother is a huge fan.
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10:55 pm
My mother is a huge fan, and growing up I listened to his music.
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10:57 pm
The ones I listed are the ones HE wrote. The other’s were mostly songs his father wrote.
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3:57 am
“godly country music”
Thanks for that, I had a nice chuckle.
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11:06 pm
Well my dear, “emo” is not a sin. Its a “style”. A style of clothing to be exact. I happen to be “emo”/”goth” and happen to be a preachers daughter, I also teach kindergartners the bible. I even listen to Black Veil Brides, Falling in Reverse, and Blood on the Dance Floor. Take this not equally as Some of the biggest sinners Ik are Christians. I have a feeling your one of them. As you condemn someone for something you dont understand? Have you ever picked up a bible? Or have u simply just pick and chose what you want to actually obey? My dear, please, judge the world not equally as God does not judge equally. Good day.
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10:50 pm
Well, you seem to believe that he wrote other songs, when he didn’t, and he didn’t change the names of the songs.
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8:54 pm
HWjr really captures the heart of many Southerners with his folksy manners and common sense solutions to problems like the president who is not President Bush. Like a Gobbler’s Holler Buddha his wisdom is enigmatic advice to the Southern gentry. America should be rubbing this man’s belly at the Cracker Barrel.
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11:56 pm
Personally, I’d rather smack your ass in a Stuckey’s with my big nut roll. How about it Blanche?
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11:07 am
Bill,
Your post is inappropriate for this forum. While I understand your preferences for that bastion of liberal jackalopes and handmade moccasins, understand that you will find no sympathies here. Cracker Barrel feeds the American soul in ways the soda jerking Snuckey’s never could.
Good Day.
BB
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11:54 pm
Hank makes great music that makes most of us cry. He’s a hero and I dont understand all this nonsense about Football. H’es a great guy, leave him alone and America loves the guy. It’s all this stupid liberal nonsense that makes him controversial when people have loved this guy for years. What’s the problem?
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12:27 am
You call him a hero and yet you don’t know that he does the theme for a football show? And you’re blaming liberals for his controversy? What? Fucking retard, die in a fire already.
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1:45 am
Agreed buddy!!!
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5:57 pm
I counted the thumbs up and down for this exchange between Dr. Billings, Pastor Billings, and L.N. the heathen.
Dr. Billings – 3 thumbs up, 0 thumbs down.
Pastor Billings – 2 thumbs up, 0 thumbs down
L.N. – 0 thumbs up – 2 thumbs down.
In sum…
JESUS – 5 thumbs up, 0 thumbs down
SATAN – 0 thumbs up, 2 thumbs down
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Another victory for the good guys!
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5:58 pm
OOPS, I meant Pastor Bowers above!!!!
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1:25 am
He looks like a redneck.
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3:59 am
…Duh? He’s a texan.
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1:30 am
That’s racist, Bob.
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1:32 am
Rednecks are a race you retard.
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1:37 am
You are all racists.
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10:50 am
Says the thing that says there’s no difference between black people, and that all Asians are evil, and all Mexicans are illegal, and so on.
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10:44 am
“Football players are often known by their high moral standards and upholding of core conservative values”
Bull. Shit.
Unfortunately, I don’t listen to country music, so I can’t shoot down the other lies very well.
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11:12 am
Many things are unfortunate, like a man losing his job because he exercises his freedom of speech, but I fail to see how your closed minded rejection of country music could be classified as unfortunate.
You liberals, always over sharing and making everything about you and your preferences.
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1:33 pm
Remember kids.
Poor literacy is kristian.
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11:02 pm
Was born at the age of 9 monthes? Thats.. ok then.
Whoever your writer is sucks.. and your facts dont make it “christian values”.. Seriously.. Have u ever even picked up a bible? I’ve been reading your articles and all I can say is your just corrupted morons…
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11:02 pm
Oh, and Mr. Williams isnt a christian man.. He even admitted it. Good luck with that.
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