Get it here! Hank Williams Jr's new slap-a-ESPN song, "Keep the Change"

"Bocephus" strikes back at media giants Fox and Friends (twisted his opinions) and ESPN in this new song, available for free download for 2 days at his website, HankJr dot com and, with the magic of embedding, here.

United Socialist States of America...how do y'all like that name?

I'll the keep the USA and y'all can keep the CHANGE!

Give it a spin...

I like this guy, in a shared-interest sort of way. And because I recall with fondness that open-air concert at Starwood Ampitheater, that one where his fans burned styrofoam cups in the grass, and many were as rowdy as that venue would allow. Which was pretty damned rowdy, back in the day. After getting much backlash that concert, Starwood became stifling in response, and never was worth much up until the day it folded. Good riddance, really.

Link to my favorite HWJr song, 1973's "The Last Love Song"

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Hank Williams Jr.'s "The Last Love Song"...





...was written and released in 1973, with the album appearing in '74. When I heard this single on AM radio back then, I was transfixed, mistakenly hearing the lyrics as "black hair against white legs" instead of "black hair against white lace". I think the former makes more sense, and that sort of thing would certainly have scandalized Nashville 'establishment' (they would be 'rocked' soon enough).

The album's cover photo was obviously made a couple years before Hank Williams Jr. fell 442' on Ajax Mountain in Montana, suffering severe head and facial damage, and permanent scarring, prompting the sunglasses, hat, beard (and OUTLAW! disposition?).

Oh, and Williams is a Republican. A Good Man. From Wiki...

Williams has been politically involved with the Republican Party. For the 2000 election, he redid his song “We Are Young Country” to “This is Bush–Cheney Country.” On October 15, 2008, at a rally in Virginia Beach for Republican presidential nominee John McCain, he performed “McCain–Palin Tradition,” a song in support of McCain and his vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin.[7]

On November 20, 2008, Williams announced that he will run for the U.S. Senate in 2012 as a Republican party candidate, challenging incumbent Republican Senator Bob Corker.[8] Williams was reported to have already consulted with Senator Lamar Alexander and former Senator Bill Frist, both Republicans from Tennessee.

Could he beat Bob Corker? Would people come out and support Hank Williams Jr. as U.S. Senator from Tennessee? Hell yeah!

Stranger things have happened. Just look at what is sitting Senator from Minnesota, Al (Freakin') Franken. And at what is that?, a dirty socialist sitting in the Oval Office.

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