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re: Happy Birthday Hank Williams Jr (Bocephus)

Posted on 5/26/26 at 2:23 pm to
Posted by Ace Midnight
Between sanity and madness
Member since Dec 2006
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Posted on 5/26/26 at 2:23 pm to
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Born on May 26, 1949, Bocephus turns, seemingly impossible he lived this long, 77 years old today.


FTFT
Posted by soccerfüt
Location: A Series of Tubes
Member since May 2013
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Posted on 5/26/26 at 2:33 pm to
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I've told this here before (and all my real life friends on here have heard it a thousand times), but my grandaddy was married to his momma (Audrey) before Hank Sr. Then when grandaddy was off fighting in WW2, she ran off with Hank.
A friend of mine’s father-in-law’s family are family friends with the Williams family from way back. Hank Jr called them up and volunteered to sing “I Saw the Light” at one of the family member’s funerals.

He’s in a real small circle of folks in American culture: him, Willie, Elvis, Dolly, not many others.
Posted by Telecaster
Memphis
Member since May 2017
2271 posts
Posted on 5/26/26 at 3:21 pm to
I saw him play a show at the Monroe Civic Center back in ‘82. It was kinda a country show. Bocephus played a white Les Paul Custom through a Marshall stack. They played a ZZ Top medley and just rocked the frick out the entire show. Great time.

Happy Birthday Hank and I hope you get stoned at the jukebox!
Posted by oleheat
Sportsman's Paradise
Member since Mar 2007
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Posted on 5/26/26 at 3:22 pm to
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"I'll tell you something else most folks don't know. Then she told me the story.


Now that's some interesting family lore!


But I guess everything happens for a reason. Your grandmother sounds like she was a character!
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