No one's going to be getting much work done around 11 a.m. Houston time tomorrow.That, of course, is when John McCain will be sworn in as the nation's first old-white-guy President; assuming you're down from the amazing high of Sunday's Lee Greenwood/Hank Williams Jr. concert at the Mall, you'll want to watch his uplifting Inaugural Speech.The rest of us in Real World will be watching Obama.Assuming you didn't make it to DC -- hey, at least you won't be freezing your ass off -- where best to wat
Freakin' Loverboy?! You mean not only can we eat our weight in brisket and drink whiskey like a bender-bound Hank Williams Jr. circa 1973, but we can also rock our sauce-soaked asses to "Working For The Weekend"? The Canadian '80s rock juggernauts hit town tonight, kicking out the jams at the World's Championship Bar-B-Que Contest, which is being held this week before the official rodeo kicks off.
Strange bookings like this make life coalesce into a majestic ball of awesome in red leather
Shooter Jennings & the .357s
Bad Magick
www.shooterjennings.com
"I don't wanna be a legend/ I just wanna be a man," Shooter Jennings sings on "Living Proof," a Hank Williams Jr. cover and one of two previously unreleased songs on Bad Magick, which otherwise rounds up the best of Jennings' three studio albums starting with 2005's Put the "O" Back In Country. The song is an obvious fit for Shooter: alongside Bocephus, he inherited one of Nashville's most formidable legacies when father
Lost your job? 401(k) a distant memory? Still think a country boy can survive? Well, America, you're in luck: Hank Williams Jr. feels your pain, and he wants to help out. Today, in conjunction with his new single "Red, White and Pink-Slip Blues," Hank Jr. announced his "Bocephus Bailout Package." According to his publicity firm, Bocephus is dipping into his pockets "in an effort to help tax-paying Americans get through these hard times."
In other words, if you don't pay your taxes, as far
Rocks Off is having a little trouble looking his "2009 Year of the Rhino" wall calendar in the eye this morning. He trusted it implicitly until Tuesday, when a friend pointed out that in saluting Stevie Nicks, Miles Davis and Hank Williams Jr. on their birthday, he left out former Band drummer Levon Helm, who turned 69. Considering how much Band Rocks Off has listened to since Helm turned 68, and how many times he's watched The Last Waltz, this is just this side of unforgivable. So, naturally,
A group of us were sitting at our regular table at the bar the other night when one of our number reported that he had to fly to Denver the next day. LOM never hears the word "Denver" that we don't think of Hank Williams Jr.'s "OD'd in Denver." We wonder if Sarah Palin, whom Bocephus schlepped for on the campaign trail last year, has ever heard that one.
Anyway, this set off a long discussion about drug references in Americana music. Before long, we were making a list. It kept growing.
1. Hank
