One of Hank Williams Jr.’s songs is called “All My Rowdy Friends Have Settled Down.” Yet a few years later, he recorded “All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight.” What happened — did he get new rowdy friends? Or did his old friends get rowdy again?
Bonus random thought: Hank Jr. has recorded a lot of crappy music, but his best songs make up for that. These lines of his might be my favorite, from “Family Tradition”:
Lordy, I have loved some ladies
and I have loved Jim Beam
and they both tried to kill me
in nineteen-seventy-three….
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You must investigate old Johnny Paycheck records from the ’60’s. Look for stuff on Starday or Lil Darlin’ Records.