The thing is he's singing 100% facts! When stuff happens, and everybody goes crazy, the country folk will be fine! 2020 is the perfect example! While pretty much everyone else was losing their minds, I had no problem just living on my farm!

They call it survival skills nowadays, but growing up we just called it life. 😉♥

The great thing about country folk is we will help you learn how to survive!! We all take care of each other. Peace and love.

Yes!!! This is me!! This is how i am!!!Born in Mississippi reside in Tennessee!! ❤️🇺🇸✌️

Hank Williams wasn't just a country singer, he is THE country music legend. Hank Jr (aka Bocephus) was expected to be just like his dad musically, but he was just too different. So he went his own way and became a legend himself. His biography is really interesting, you guys should look it up.

Plenty of black country folks can survive, too. Country folks know how to be independent and self reliant.

Being a country boy myself this song has always had a special meaning for me.

Once you live in the country, you're not worried about surviving. Hank is right. We hunted, fished, grew our food, raised hogs, chickens, rabbits. There was an old man down the road who had a couple of Jersey cows too. Everybody knew everybody and we watched out for each other. It wasn't survival skills to us. It was just life. Never count out country folk. If the world fell tomorrow, we'd be fine.

This is the ultimate “If you want to mess with us, you’d better pack a lunch, cause your gonna be here all damn day!” song. Love it!

This man survived a fall off of a mountain it tore off his jaw it was like a 5 hundred foot fall he's definitely a survivor

Gives me goosebumps every time I hear this song. And I've been listening to it since the the 80's.

I believe that "twang" is the word that describes the country sound. Guitar twang!

A trotline is a heavy fishing line with a bunch of short lighter lines spaced apart (snoods). A snood is a short length of line which is attached to the main line. You end up with a bunch of baited fishing hooks covering a big area. The trotline can be ran so it covers the whole width of a river or stream.

A Trot Line is a horizontal fishing line suspended by floating jugs with many vertical fishing lines hanging from it. You bait the hooks, string it out and let it sit, when you come back, hopefully you have many fish on the lines.

This in particular is the outlaw style. My favorite sub genre of country.

Trotline fishing is fun, we do it. Just like a line of treble hooks , maybe 10 hooks, with bait like chicken, stays on hooks really well. Then put in rivers around the evening. Leave overnight then check the next day. We normally catch catfish and gars. Also, that's steel guitar yall hear, blooming flowers, typical of blues , country music, bluegrass. Hank is part of the outlaw country genre. The playing style and twang makes it country sounding. Yall will be good out in the country. Yall are down to earth, funny, and cool, like most folks that live in rural areas. They are like yall. Plus, Brad has a pickup truck he'd get tons of friends out in the country 😆 🤠 they,d take you off-roading and muddin. Hunting and fishing. The ladies will bake, cook and gardening with Lex. I have lots of friends, coworkers that live outside the city. Just don't fall for their pranks, they like playing pranks on gullible city slickers lol.

lmfao Just heard that last statement Brad. You would love living in the rural area. And a trot line is a line you put out in the river with treble hooks on it that you bait and leave in the water. You go home or to your tent and then return later to find fish hooked on your iine in the water.

More of a value system to live life by !!!!!! Oh and a damn good song too....🤠🥃🍻✌️ from Choctaw County Ok.. Y'all take care now..😋👋👋

I used to be really into hard rock and heavy metal and went to many concerts... But I also went through a Bocephus (Hank Jr.) stage and went to a show back in the mid/late 80's ('87?) and I'll tell you that was the scariest crowd I ever saw. More fights than all the other concerts I'd been to collectively. Rowdy crowd with a lot of whiskey down their necks. But it was a great show (and this suburban kid did survive). This was my favorite song. "I got a shotgun, a rifle, and a 4-wheel drive, and a country boy can survive."

He brought old school back into country at a time it was commercialized.

"Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound"

Growing up in the country, and a small town, this one always has the nostalgia feels.

This song is like an anthem now, it’s legendary, has a lot of meaning and truth to it. I hated it as a kid, I used to sing with a reeeeeeal country accent, “the woman and the kids and the dawgs and me e e eee” but I’ve grown to appreciate it as an adult, it even brings a tear to my eye, I love it!

Come to the country. Life here is less stressful and a slower pace. Don't worry about not knowing how to run a trout line or anything else, people here are more than happy to help you or teach you anything you want or need.

GOOD SONG .....and accurate!! Wow I always heard this sound as a blooming sound too LEX! Again Lex hears songs with a musician's perspective.

In the early and mid eighties Hank Jr was it, his music was so popular it crossed over into mainstream. Hank Jr surpassed his father in popularity and I believe record sales.

The greatest country song in history. Hands down. Long live Bocephus. 🤘🏻🇺🇸💯

This is a great song a true story and I love Hank Williams Jr I grew up on him.

A "slide" on the guitar causes that "blooming" Lex was talking about...very prevalent in country music

Hank Jr's sound is known as "Outlaw Country." Other artists in this sub genre include Waylon Jennings, Davis Allan Coe, Kris Kristofferson, and Willie Nelson. They were the anti-establishment of country music, hence, outlaws.

Nature definitely teaches you. Nothing gives you more freedom than learning how to harness natural resources.

This is about you guys and all of us. You could do this Brad.

I grew up in town but my grandparents had a farm. When I was a teenager, I would spend a lot of my summers helping out, plowing fields, baling hay, feeding the animals. It was hard work and some of the best memories of my life.

This song is an “Anthem” for people that haven’t bought into the politically energized condition that America is trying to sell them. Some will perish, but the country boys will survive…👏

Hank Jr is a deep musical hole to dive in to, he has some many good songs. Hank Sr was the original OG for country music super stars. Hank Jr was 3 years old when his dad died.

This song definitely has sort of a bad ass/country folk are resourceful enough to get through anything. They’re tough!

Knowing the life history of Hank Williams Jr. is also a must research IF you want to learn how that "Country Boy Can (and DID) Survive"!

This song reminds me of when I was a kid spending time with my stepdad and his brothers fishing. I didn't care for this kind of music much at that age but I loved this song. It felt like our life back then.

Just seen him bout a month ago in deadwood s.d., grew up in Montana seen him play in bars and get so drunk he put his foot threw the pa system haha 35 years later still kicking it

As a kid in Louisiana, I learned to run a trout line and owned my first shotgun at age 10 and deer hunted. I am not a country boy. It is just what we did at the time. Timeless song. Thanks for reviewing it.

Brad..you're more country than ya know. You and Lex would be just fine!

You can do it Brad,and many folks will teach you.

A trotline is a heavy fishing line with individual, shorter, baited lines attached at intervals, commonly referred to as snoods. A snood is a short length of line which is attached to the main line using a clip or swivel, with the hook or bait at the other end. A trotline can be set so it covers the width of a channel, river, or stream with baited hooks.

They might pick on ya for being a Cityslicker for a bit. But, you'll find out that a lot of Country folk are willing to help you learn to survive, and have fun doing it.

This Man Is Amazing! His Father Was The Great, Hank Williams Sr. Who Sang 'Im So Lonesome I Could Cry! The Steel Guitar Sounds Great!

His Dad was THE country Musician, Hank Williams Sr. was the Hillbilly Shakespeare. Thing is, you COULD move to the country and if you are good folks (like you are) they WILL Help you...Country folks are far and away kinder happier people than most...

It's a way of life for us. We do what we do, and let you do you. If you think you can push us, you won't like the outcome. But if you are hungry, sit yourself down, and we'll feed you.

Saw him in Dallas in 1987 and Tokyo in 1994, there is a reason he was a two time entertainer of the year. Always Loving You in the best love song I’ve ever heard on Family Tradition album 1978 I think. My fav.

An instrument that is almost exclusively for country music is the steel guitar. It makes all of those twangy country guitar sounds. Kind of like the opening music to Shameless by Garth Brooks.

The best place to raise kids is the COUNTRY!!!

My family in the Northern California mountains live this song. ❤️✌️

A trot line is used for a style of fishing that is all about food as opposed to sport. It is comparable to trapping in that you have to check your trot lines just about as often as you'd check your trap line. It can be confusing at first. A trap line is a series of animal traps set in the woods, usually close to, or along a creek, river, or stream. The "line" is the trail or path that goes from the first trap to the last. It can be quite a bit of hiking if you're checking them properly. The word "line" in the term "trot line" is an actual physical line, often made of tarred string that is typically strung across a non-navigable stream or small river that has several "leaders" ( shorter lengths of actual fishing line, hooked and baited on the end ) attached at intervals along the trot line that is strung between the banks. You bait your leaders on the trot line, then walk away. You return to check for fish after about an hour or so, or at even longer time intervals if fishing deep for cats.

I went to the Best ConcertI have been to in my Hometown of Wilmington. NC in 1983. The Young up and coming group Alabama opened up for Hank Williams JR. Both Alabama and Hank Williams JR were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

In 2022 im still teaching my young daughter all the things my grandparents and parents taught me foraging hunting etc... Not permitted to run a trout line in our area but...

Brad- "This country boy must have been homeless, surviving out in nature..."

Glad y’all done this song! Country life is great !

A lot of the families from the hills in the south came from Ireland and around that area the sound it's Celtic

A COUNTRY BOY That CAN'T survive! I actually laughed out loud! Too funny!

His father Hank Williams Sr was a country icon and legend.

Wow almost at 250k!!! I followed you guys back when you were under 20k. I love to see the success. Keep up the great work!

Country music is an American musical style that incorporates elements of folk, bluegrass, blues, and rural dance music. Music historians trace its origins to the southern Appalachian Mountains in the late 1920s, particularly in eastern Tennessee and southwest Virginia.

Country boys will survive because they are bad azz!! Love this one ! It's real! Great reaction!🤠🇺🇸🤠

A phrase has been attributed to a lot of people, but seems to have originated with Harlan Howard, in the 1950s talking about country music: "All I got is a red guitar, three chords and the truth."

Us country boys would look out for you brad.

A Trot Line is just a heavier long line with several other lines with hooks. and bait, tethered at each end, so you don't have to wait and fish, just periodically come and check them. I have done everything Bocephus talked about, and more. In Louisiana, we could catch a sack of crawfish in a couple hours. There was always someone going down to the coast to bring back 100's of pounds of fresh shrimp. My Grandpa used to make muskedine wine, and I have make mulberry wine myself. Now I live in Orlando, and I hate it.

Brad, a trotline is a long, heavy line, usually string, that is secured to something above the water on one side, like a limb or pole, then anchored out in the water on the other side. It has several smaller lines, 2 to 3 feet long, that come off the main line, with a single baited hook. They are used mainly in flowing waters like rivers and creeks, to catch catfish. This song is a classic in Country music and is well known by everyone that lives in the country

Brad you would love the country lifestyle. Great Reaction as always.

Country music is a state of mind and a country boy or girl has a lot to do with grassroots family, multiple generations living within Rock chunking distance, and having the skills to feed yourself and family off the land and Waters. Being able to protect your land your family and friends from any enemy. I don't know if I could explain it any better.

Country music is different in that twang from the voice, the story telling of the song, and the steel guitar. It can make harmonica-like sounds and was used alot in bluegrass music. This is a great song by Hank Jr. You can bet true country people can do all he said and more. Being from the country, you learn to live off the land and be very self sufficient. It's a beautiful life but harder in many regards. Alot of manuel labor, stores are not immediately accessible because you may have a bit of a drive to get to one, and depending on how far out you are, you may or may not have access to cable or internet. Country folks tend to focus more on their families, friends, and God than people in cities do. I think it comes from everyone having to rely on and support one another every day in the country to make it. You should go explore the countryside in little towns. I'm sure you'd enjoy it!

A trout line is a row of fishing hooks you attached to short fishing lines. They are then attached to a long chord, chain, or rope every 10' or so. The idea is to try to catch any fish that swim near the trout line. Sometimes you can string it across a river, sometimes you string it up and down one side of a river close to the bank. Another form of "trout lines"... sometimes called drop lines, is where individual lines and fishing hooks are attached to roots protruding out of the river bank, tree limbs hanging low over the water, stumps, anything really along the edge of a river. The lines might be 100' apart or so, sometimes closer depending on the stretch of water. You drop the line so that the hook is a few feet under the water. Many times, you can tie a plastic bottle like an empty 2 litter bottle, or even empty milk jug, so that the fishing hook is dangling below the bottle 3-4 feet. When a fish is on the line, you'll see the limb bend and shake... if you're using an empty jug, you see the jug bob up and down in water. For bait it's common to use chicken liver, live minnows, crawfish, or even store-bought bait. Usually you "Line it" at or near dusk in a boat... (mostly flat bottom metal river boats) with a small battery operated motor or simply wooded paddles. The river (or sometimes lake) has to be large, deep, and slow enough to patrol with a boat. A trout line can be up to a mile long, but most of the time no more than a 1/4 of a mile. You start at a fishing camp, go up the river on one side of the bank, then come back down on the other side of the bank. Then you wait. Sometimes my dad and uncle would get up in the middle of the night, sometimes they would simply wait til about an hour before dawn. Then you check the lines. Most of the time trout are not caught, although you call it a trout line no matter where you're fishing. At night it's very common to catch Catfish. Some of the largest flathead river cat's are caught in the dead of night on lines like this. In the day you'll catch anything from Bass, catfish, large perch, crappy... just about anything. And no matter if you're using a "true" trout line, or a more common series of drop lines, this is the type of fishing I grew up with in the South and in "the country".

In the country: whatever doesn't kill you, you can learn from it, but the skills are handed down from parent to child and older friends to younger... that is the country way.

That flowering instrument is a Steel Guitar

Brad ... you would probably love ❤️ country life! You and Lex could easily learn in time..fishing is half of it. And you two have the advantage of online teaching of everything!.. Move to the country. IT'S THE AMERICAN DREAM!

People who are raised in the country or have spent great deals of time with family members in the country learn skills that will take you through life especially in hard times you guys do great reactions it would be well advised in the times we live in that you two learn some of these skills get with family members that live in the country and learn some of these important skills God bless have a great day

Y'all found the HOLY GRAIL 👍😎 the song is amazing and it's performed by a superstar. The original country anthem 👍😎. Makes you want to go camping and fishing don't it👍😆😆. Give country state of mind. A listen it's a awesome song too ❤️🌎✌️

Come on up to Mississippi brad we goin trot lineing this weekend nothing more exciting than running line at 3am pull up a 30lb catfish fighting like crazy and the sametime a gator bumping against the little john boat.. Fun fun. Grandpappay use to take hand grabbing that's where you stick your hand into a old hollowed out log just under water and fill around till a catfish bites down on your hand you grab it and the fight is on.. Trot lining is where you put hooks about every few feet on a heavy duty line drop it across the river let it sink tomthe bottom of the river thats where the big fish live.

a trot line is a string tied to something and then stretched and tied to another object and hooks on 18 inch strings are tied every 2-3 foot apart and weights with strings 2 feet long are tied to the ends and the middle. you can bait up right after dark then go back the next day are get the fish

Now we’re playing some Great music!!!

Hank Jr. blurs the line between country and southern rock music. Love ya'lls reaction videos and this one is special, great artist and his best song, I think.

His father is considered the most important country singer/writer ever. Hank Jr. has lived up well to his father's status--big shoes to emulate.

Country uses a lot of fiddle and steel guitar too

Storytelling is what makes country music

This song always reminds me of my Poppie. I grew up running trot lines and making wine with him. I miss him terribly💔 He could do it all.

Come on out to the country. You don't know how to skin a buck, or run a line... no worries. Just ask. Country folk are nice and usually more than willing to help or answer any questions. We'll have you hunting, fishing, and farming in no time. :)

is Lex talking about the "steel guitar" when she's talking about the "blooming sound" or the harmonica parts?

Come on to these backwoods of Georgia where I been living since 1973 & I'll show you how to run a trotline, do some deer processing, plant a garden, take care of the livestock, build your own place & whatever else you may need to survive - PEACE LOVE n HIPPYNESS ✌❤☮

How funny is it that Lex used " Family Tradition " when talking about Hank Jr.? You guys gotta listen to him sing that song!

My favorite Junior song is Mr Weatherman. I prefer Senior and Juniors son....Hank the Third. Hank the Third plays country, Rock, metal and even punk! lol

Hi guys. I can't remember if I left this quote in a comment on any of your vids before. It was once said that Country music is a few chords and the truth. Real country (R.I.P) was always about story telling and much of it came from the life experiences of the writers. Hank Jr. has had some of the same habits (both good and bad ones) as his dad did. Both loved the blues and would often go to little juke joints and blues bars and just sit and listen and sometimes sit in. Jr. has been selling out concerts and making big bank since he was a kid. He learned to do all those survival skills because he loves it and his grandfather thought everyone should know some of how to care for themselves if needed. Lots of great music in Jrs. book. next time you feel like a country song give this one a try. It's called Red Neck Woman by Gretchen Wilson. Enjoy! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bpiUd9GnnuDJfKc.html Oh Brad. A Trot line has hooks attached every couple of feet. You run it across whatever water you are fishing and leave it be for several hours. Go back and pull that line in and you might just have a big bunch of fish. That's a bit simplified, but that's what it is. They use that method to catch crabs too.

‘Because you can’t starve us out, and you can’t make us run’

Country music tell stories of real life happenings . Just a few decades ago , I was helping my Mom draw water from a cistern , to wash our clothes with an old speed queen wringer washer , and a rinse tub on a home made stool . Cooking supper on top of an old wood stove . The bathroom was over the hill next to the corn crib , with the sears and roebuck toilet paper ! Cutting and stacking wood all summer to have enough for winter . Wearing blue jeans with knee patches , and even worse was in the winter when those jeans came in off the back porch frozen stiff! LOL I tell you what , I thought I was living large , and was as happy as I had ever been . Hard times make you tough , and helps you through stupid time like today !

His friend really was killed

Hank Williams Sr learned to play the guitar from a Black Man named Rufus Payne (Tee-Tot). It was a special blues cord known in that area. The powers-to-be wanted Hank Williams Jr to play his dad's song. Once Hank Jr. became older, he started playing his style of music. JR was influenced by the Allman Brothers. Hank Williams Sr is often referred to as the King of Country.

He has always been his own man. Cool dude. When his first album broke , everyone took notice and most listened and enjoyed.

"If you ain't into that,, We don't give a damn!" Says it all.

If you can survive in a trailer park, you'd stand a pretty good chance in the country

Hank Williams Sr, Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash, all part of the OutLaw Country. It's very anti establishment, not your run of the mill pop country that's so "popular" these days

My favorite Hank song. Also love the MNF song! ❤️🔥 Love the Def Leppard shirt @ Brad! 🙂

Having watched you all a thousand times, I know you would love the country and the country would love you! Brad has the soul of a provider and would pick up farming, hunting, and fixing things up quickly, and Lex is a hidden hippie and would fit right in weeding the garden, collecting fresh eggs, and making excellent meals. Go buy 5 acres on the edge of a small town where you know you can get great internet and give us a ten minute daily update! Plus keep doing those reactions!

If the US were hot with cyber attack city people will get hungry real fast. I only have 6 acres but. I can feed my family with what I have in back yard and I can defend what is mine. You should think about moving oot. Survival skills are not that hard to learn. If bad things happen it will be to late then.