TRUTH BE TOLD Great story and a memory to cherish for damn sure.....in 1978 at a Willie Nelson concert he passed me a bottle of vodka after he took a swing that someone had passed up to him and I got his autograph after the show.

TRUTH BE TOLD when was this

That's really cool! I'd love to hear more? Are you a woman, if so was he flirty?

Lol! Don't think Hank would dance with a Man.

@@rockers2rockers616 No I don't think Bosephus swings that way 🤣😂😂

bigdz83 awesome and true comment ...well said !

It's because older music had soul in it now it's just words with the exception of a few

That's very true

Honestly is the growing influence of the digital age. As electronics improve skill declines and creativity. From electric guitars to drum machines to looping/sampling and eventually auto tune and we end up with a cold, digital “perfection”. The more digital aid the less soul and human touch

100% this "new" country isn't even country, I don't know what it is but I can't find a good radio station, without my Hank Jr and John Cash cds I would have to listen to my exhaust!!!

He looks better without them

He a doll no matter

I thought the same thing 🤘

If you watch some of his youngest son Sam's Facebook videos, you will see present day what he looks like without them. Be prepared though, other than the style of clothes and a few tattoos, Sam is a dead ringer for Hank Sr.! Lol

I wasn't alive for the originals but I sure do appreciate being able to watch them now. I can't stand new "country" but I'll listen to most of it from the 50's-90's.

Kinda ga y

Completely agree! Hank and Tom are two great Country Music legends! :) Is it just me or did Hank kinda look a little bit like a young Alan Jackson with his sunglasses off? Lol

Robert Carter you're welcome bitch

smith ko

Haha kwish you will show emhow to raise hellin carolina!lovethesong Hank is fine !too ,!!

LMAO!!!

Tom was talking to his dog over an open mic. Crazy stuff. I would have been pissed if I was Bocephus.

I know what you mean, new so called country music sucks! More like pop/rap. Jason Aldean, Trace Atkins, Luke Bryan,Dierks Bentley all have no talent what so ever. Give me George Straight, George Jones, Hank sr and Jr, Alabama, Conway, Johnny Cash, Keith Whitley any day!

@@brandond73 Pretty far and few between for good ol boys nowadays. all radio is mass produced pop country bullshit... gotta search for the good stuff. Fred Eaglesmith is one that you probably haven't heard of. Musical mastermind that said fuck you when invited to the grammys for a song he wrote and one of these hacks performed, not out of any bitterness but because he had a show in some podunk town in the middle of nowhere. That dude is fuckin great.

Still named Hank Williams!!!

@@brandond73 do you not realize how rude your comment is??

@@thundertv1431 you misspelled “true”

Hardly an era.

even harder cause it was almost 40

Auldin Lockridge You know why he wears them right

@@ryanthemyth857 I don't, why?

Savannah cause he fell off the mountain in firing of his house, like 500 foot cliff or something like that and his one eye popped out of his head and he had to walk back holding his eye. That’s why he wears glasses and the doctors were very lucky to be able to put it back in

@@buckwheat310 Firing of his house??? He was on ajax mountain in Montana hiking just to get away fell 490 feet after losing his footing. The eyeball part you got right but he did not walk back was unable the guy he was with son stayed till the guy could get help back

@@lemmykilmister9979 he meant in front I’m pretty sure. And Bo Cepheus does have a house by the place where he fell.

Amen to that county music sucks nowdays

Stay where your at the south has changed and it doesn't need more transplants

Mark Kent fuck off

We need more true rebels wherever they are to come to their true home.

I heard it too. Also heard what sounded like someone opening a can of beer/soda, LOL.

Weird, my mom’s boyfriend told me the exact same story, he was at a bar in Montana when Hank walks in and says the same thing. I tend to think this story is an urban legend.

This story happened in every town in the USA on the same night.

Before he was famous? Dude was living his father's life at the age of 8

He was famous in 70s lier

@@zacharygregory1213 calm down. I posted that two years ago. Get a life.

Shes fine

+itsadryheave Actually that song was written and first recorded by Shirley Eikhard in the 70s!

@@steveendicott8149 Actually written and sung by Christine McVie '75 *Fleetwood Mac*

... that has to be one of the funniest comments I've read in a while. LMAO Toby Keith is a pop country copycat kook. Believe it or not, I actually heard that ol' Hank Jr. actually wipes his ass with Toby Keith album covers... that's about as close as your connection is in reality lol

Lincoln Corda i like hank jr and dont toby kieth i said it almost looked like him no connection on how he performed so i dont care how funny you think my comment idiot

Toby Keith is just a big shitstain in a pair of underwear!

Toby worked hard on that

He says in one of his interviews that he didn’t lose his eyesight any either

Josh lower nor did he lose his ability to play the hell out of like 16 different instruments.

welderhelper79 the reason his eyes like that is because his eye socket got smashed and had to be reconstructed.

Josh lower I know

@@joshlower1 We're aware..

the light bothers him

He had to undergo many reconstructive surgeries on his eyes and face which is why he started wearing the glasses and hat and grew his beard out. He was still having surgery done to his eyes into the mid 80's, but I'm guessing the look just stuck afterwards. I think he had somewhere around 8-10 different reconstructive surgeries to his eyes alone

thelt1971 on August the 8th of 1975 hank was hunting on ajax mountain in Montana with a friend of his when they came to a snow field. His friend crossed first and when hank went across the snow fell out from under him and hank fell about 550 feet down a cliff he was falling when his face hit a boulder on the side of the mountain and ripped his face to shreds, basically the only thing he had was his left eye. Doctors said if he lived through it he probably wouldn't be able to talk or see again. He went through weeks of surgery of facial reconstruction, arms legs the whole nine yards. He came back better than ever and basically gave the finger to all the people that said you'll be just like your daddy. He had it terrible in the start. He was taught to be like sing like and act like his dad but he wanted to do his own thing so that fall changed his life. He came out of it with a brand new look and sounded a hell of a lot different.

So did Hank lose an eye?

mysteryjesus no he didn't but, his eyes are very sensitive to the stage lights.

+Matt Beeman do you really give a shit what his nose looked like

I seriously hate it that country people hate us city people. like whatever the hell did we ever do to you that annoyed you? 😂 we’re all just simply living life and you’re hating us for no reasons

@@thundertv1431 ALL country people don't hate ALL city slickers.At least I don't!!

Plan B Hank never does a song the same way twice. I am lucky he was never drunk when I saw him.

So then what was your plan b.

I have seen him 5 times and he was always sober.

He always ad-libs in concert to almost every line of every song. He’s showing off how easy it comes through him to write lyrics. It’s not because he’s “too drunk”. If he was he couldn’t do it that way. He’d be George Jones and sing from memory after somebody stood him in front of a mic and raised the curtain. I am sure Hank has a few drinks and party favors before his shows but he never gets “too drunk”. He loves to entertain to much. It’s not a job to him, it’s a pleasure and a duty.

kathleen kallista Hank fell off a mountain in Montana and almost died,he had several reconstructive surgeries that's why he sports the beard and sunglasses.

The doctors that reconstructed his face should be proud. He didn’t look half bad. The sunglasses and beard, shadowed by a big hat brim, became his iconic look. It’s funny how much Toby Keith looks like him. Two of my favorite country singers are Hank Jr. and Waylon Jennings. I love “The Conversation”

@@williamjohnson4311 what I don't understand is I've seen pics where he doesn't have the beard (but he does have the chops) and unless it's just where his chops are, I don't see any scarring. The only thing that looks funky about his face is his eyes. There's literally nothing (scar wise) that would make me think he went through such a terrible accident.

They did such a good job reconstructing that he still looked much the same as he did before; mouth nose and such; it was still Hank Jr, but we can imagine if it had been us, we'd likely be self conscious and hide the eye.

DUSTY1373 Tom t doesn’t smoke

Lol he’s smoked his entire life

Country music, or any music should never belong to a political party, or even be political. Politics corrupts everything and music is too pure for that dirt

I've wondered this too. They talk about how bad it was I don't see any scars. I've seen pics where he doesn't the beard and still no scars. The only thing off about his face is his eyes. And I agree with you about they wouldn't have done that good of a job back then. If you look at reconstructive facial surgeries done nowadays no matter how good they are you can always tell they've had work done, there faces just look off, no way Hank's face would look that normal after 8 surgeries. I could see your theory being true, something happened to his eyes and I saw an interview where he said he was suicidal at one point so

It's called airbrush. In close pics you can easily see he has a fake eye from when it popped out from the fall.

I used to work with a guy that had a great black and white flash photo of Hank and it was at just the right position to see all his scars without the beard.

Most of the injuries were to his skull. His skull was split open and his eye come out of its socket. From what I understand he does not have a glass eye, they were able to save his vision. His eyes are not on a level plane, his right eye is lower than the left because of his skull being split apart and therefore the shades...

@@fastdude2002 you are correct. It split his skull open and popped his eye out. It also destroyed his nose and knocked his teeth out. So much of the reconstruction was the upper part of his head. I always crack up when people say it didn't happen