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!
Yep, we moved to the country when I was 6 (1971) thought it was the end of the world at the time. The best thing that ever happened to me, going barefoot, swimming in the creek and most of all... growing a big ole garden full of everything. Good times, simple life, wouldn't change a thing.
Beat me to it. If you want to move out to the country and small towns, you'll be fine. They will teach you how to be self reliant and live off the small community.
That is one of the best parts of the song to me. He had a friend in New York City that only ever called him hillbilly. They mailed each other shit. His friend gets killed for some bullshit and he talks about wanting to hunt his killer down and killing him. A hillbilly and a NYC big money business man... Right?
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.
After going to WalMart this morning, I’m reminded how blessed I am to be able to fill my freezer with fresh, FREE meat! I produce fresh eggs and chicken on my lilttle farm and harvest as much deer as I need. ‘A Country Boy Can Survive’!
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.
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 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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
not as many record sales back in those days, Technology and the availability of instance music... sales records of all sorts will be shattered.. The big artist of the 20th Century Elvis , Beatles, and so on...are all but forgotten, thankfully many of these Reaction channels have been bringing the great music back to the masses
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.
Lol a trot line is a line with a bunch of hooks and bait stretched across a body of water ( usually a river) to catch multiple fish overnight they check them daily.
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 ✌❤☮
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.
That's jugging or noodling and you need to also use weights that set on the bottom of the lake to keep the from getting lost with the tide or tangled up. A trot line is when you tie a line between 2 trees (or whatever anchor points) with hooks on the line. You can stretch them anywhere on a lake or even across the channel of a river or stream.
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!
Young man and young lady thank you for the reaction. If you're even thinking about moving to the country go ahead and do it . Your heart your soul your mind your body your common sense well thank you for it. But then what do I know I'm just an old country boy. God bless you and yours and God bless the USA
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."
They'll teach you, Brad, as long as your heart is in it. Neither this UA-cam gig nor whatever other thing you have going that keeps you a slave is going last forever. Better to take a few steps back, learn from elder men, and protect that precious lady of yours as well as your future family.
Living country is raising a garden, having chickens, a couple cows and sending one to slaughter every fall that puts meat in the freezer with the deer you killed. I grew up this way and can tell y'all it's a healthier way to live, OH yeah fishing to have fish in the freezer too. You put up the vegetables in Mason jars,now that's an art, ha e you some fruit trees, you can see it takes a few acres to make it. Y'all are young enough to do it. Thanks guys for the cool memories
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.
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…👏
@@treetop.garage There’s nothing better than slowing your boat, and pulling up those lines. Each line is like Christmas. You hope you’re gonna’ have a lot of presents. Re-baiting your trot-line as you go, is like putting money in the bank. I love hard-working people. They define “freedom”.
These days with the way the world is going i would say at least having the basics of providing water, food, and shelter in case things keep going south but its also alot of fun! I really think you guys would enjoy it!
A trot line is a submerged line going across a river with baited hooks attached every few feet. You run the line across the river then come back later, pull up the line, and see what you got. As a kid we used to pull up trot lines that we didn't set. If we had gotten caught it would've been an ass whippin. Cheers,
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.
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.
Trotline, it’s a line spread across with individual baited “snoods”. And it’s called a trotline because they used to have the horses pull the lines out of the water. It is “trotline”. One word.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I had to scroll too far down to see this. Wanted to make sure someone explained a trot line. IDK what you call it, but we also tie a snood to a milk jug or an empty 2-3 liter bottle and toss them in when fishing a smaller pond before going to bed. Catfish will hang themselves everytime.
I can totally see Lex gardening, canning and storing while tending chickens, goats & cows in a rural environment while Brad fishes, hunts & butchers his prey.
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. :)
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...
Hey guys what's up! Greetings from South florida! I live pretty close to the Seminole Indian Reservation down here. I had a lot of Indian friends throughout my life. And the Indians love this guy. I've seen Hank Williams Jr twice. And both times it was at a Seminole pow wow. You should check out one of the other Seminole Indians favorites. John Anderson. Check out his songs swinging, Black Sheep, or my favorite song of his, Seminole Wind. You guys rock! God bless you! Peace!
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.
We have flathead parties that last all weekend. It's a tournament for biggest flathead using trout lines. They'd check and bait their lines like clockwork throughout the weekend Nothing better than belly meat from a flathead!
@@kellymckinney9050 "trotline" is the term. And if y'all are eating flathead all weekend then there is also a substantial quantity of beer washing it down I bet.
We were checking a trotline out in a river once. We had caught a big softshell turtle. He was eating the bait off one hook and he caught his leg on another one.
@@dr.burtgummerfan439 I feel your pain. I've checked my lines before only to find a bunch of fish heads on the hooks. A turtle had eaten the fish and left the heads. Everyone who runs trot lines runs into turtle problems eventually. But other animals learn about the free meal if you set your lines in the same place every time.
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
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.
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
Plenty of black country folks can survive, too. Country folks know how to be independent and self reliant.
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!
Same here. People were going nuts while I worked in my garden.
Yep, we moved to the country when I was 6 (1971) thought it was the end of the world at the time. The best thing that ever happened to me, going barefoot, swimming in the creek and most of all... growing a big ole garden full of everything. Good times, simple life, wouldn't change a thing.
Yup 👍
Wait until 2024 when the radical leftist lunatics go nuts.
Lockdown what's that? It never kept me from fishing or whatever I usually do outside
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.
Beat me to it. If you want to move out to the country and small towns, you'll be fine. They will teach you how to be self reliant and live off the small community.
That is one of the best parts of the song to me. He had a friend in New York City that only ever called him hillbilly. They mailed each other shit. His friend gets killed for some bullshit and he talks about wanting to hunt his killer down and killing him. A hillbilly and a NYC big money business man... Right?
They call it survival skills nowadays, but growing up we just called it life. 😉♥
For a lot of us it’s just a normal Thursday.
Just doin' what we do out here.
Amen to that it's just life where we live.
Just another Monday
Living life at its fullest, American by birth, country boy by the Grace of God
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.
Which he sings about in "Family Tradition" .. and Hank III sounds like Hank Sr , and has his own sound
@@Sportsref13 I agree Hank lll sounds alot like his granddaddy and has alot of good music definetly different
"he is THE country music legend"
Just about to post the exact same words when I read your post :)
React to Hank 3 Country Heroes.
He was a racist and frankly didn't sing all that great
Being a country boy myself this song has always had a special meaning for me.
Same👍👊
@@mattyjay8896 Most people live in a Country.
In the country is we’re it’s at !
After going to WalMart this morning, I’m reminded how blessed I am to be able to fill my freezer with fresh, FREE meat!
I produce fresh eggs and chicken on my lilttle farm and harvest as much deer as I need.
‘A Country Boy Can Survive’!
Us country boys would look out for you brad.
Nature definitely teaches you. Nothing gives you more freedom than learning how to harness natural resources.
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.
and if a strange car came down our road more than once phones stated ringing
@@carlprince2866 damn right. We will go right up and see who and what the hell you looking for.
Yes!!! This is me!! This is how i am!!!Born in Mississippi reside in Tennessee!! ❤️🇺🇸✌️
'Sippi girl here too. ✌️✌️
@@marielaveau5321 love my people! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Dickson, TN myself
Lots of Country music tells a story.
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".
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!
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You forgot to add the “and DONT forget the cold beer as payment for the ass kicking”
@@nikkiwilliams8508 this is the biggest cringe ever read😂 and hank jr ain’t plowed no field or kicked no ass lmao
you guys are killing me. I've never laughed so hard at comments in my life. nikki is right.
Brad. You would love the country my friend.
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..😋👋👋
The best place to raise kids is the COUNTRY!!!
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...
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.
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
Learn to live this way because you never know when the world will change for you. Love you both!
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.
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.
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.
not as many record sales back in those days, Technology and the availability of instance music... sales records of all sorts will be shattered..
The big artist of the 20th Century Elvis , Beatles, and so on...are all but forgotten, thankfully many of these Reaction channels have been bringing the great music back to the masses
@@Sportsref13 That is why I cannot understand these artists blocking reactions. It literally keeps their music alive.
@@gerhardbraatz6305 It's not the artists. It's the record labels that do it. They have the rights to it.
Hank Sr died at 29 yrs old. 55 top 10s, 12 #1s, and his songs are still covered pretty regularly
@@Gutslinger Don Henley has a team of people hired just to block Eagles songs. I guess they both do.
I love knowing young people understanding this fantastic story!!!!
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.
*troutline
@@dericanslum1696 also known as a troutline but the rig is called a "trot" line
@@dericanslum1696 Trotline . Trotlines catch several fish when set . Trout are caught by anglers using fly fishing rigs .
@@victorwaddell6530 ...oh boy...tell me you know nothing about trout without telling me you know nothing about trout...
Trotline .. when you wanna swim before you fish.
I've lived my life according to "Country Boy Can Survive" my whole life, so this song has resonated with me since Hank Jr Wrote it 😎👍👍🤷♂🤷♂🤷♂
Now we’re playing some Great music!!!
Lol a trot line is a line with a bunch of hooks and bait stretched across a body of water ( usually a river) to catch multiple fish overnight they check them daily.
Gives me goosebumps every time I hear this song. And I've been listening to it since the the 80's.
I love ALL the Hank’s!! Senior, Jr (ol Bocephus) and his son HANK III….. Lex! You would LOVE him!!!
This is about you guys and all of us. You could do this Brad.
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 ✌❤☮
I believe that "twang" is the word that describes the country sound. Guitar twang!
"Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound"
Storytelling is what makes country music
This in particular is the outlaw style. My favorite sub genre of country.
You move to the country them good ol boys will help you country folks are the best and we are real people
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.
That's jugging or noodling and you need to also use weights that set on the bottom of the lake to keep the from getting lost with the tide or tangled up. A trot line is when you tie a line between 2 trees (or whatever anchor points) with hooks on the line. You can stretch them anywhere on a lake or even across the channel of a river or stream.
Here in central Florida we also called them trot lines great way to fish
Thank you for sharing this with me
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!
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"!
Just knowing why he has a beard and wears dark glasses is a pretty interesting story.
@@mckrackin5324 It's nothing short of a miracle he survived what happened to him.
I haven't refreshed my memory on it, but didn't he fall from a significant height while mountain climbing?
@@korndogz69
I'm not sure about that, only I do know he had multiple facial surgeries and reconstructions for the accident he had!
@@korndogz69 over 500 feet..
The greatest country song in history. Hands down. Long live Bocephus. 🤘🏻🇺🇸💯
Young man and young lady thank you for the reaction. If you're even thinking about moving to the country go ahead and do it . Your heart your soul your mind your body your common sense well thank you for it. But then what do I know I'm just an old country boy. God bless you and yours and God bless the USA
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."
They'll teach you, Brad, as long as your heart is in it. Neither this UA-cam gig nor whatever other thing you have going that keeps you a slave is going last forever. Better to take a few steps back, learn from elder men, and protect that precious lady of yours as well as your future family.
A "slide" on the guitar causes that "blooming" Lex was talking about...very prevalent in country music
You could also hear harmonica bending its tone ….by slowly sliding it along the lips and varying breath pressure.
Living country is raising a garden, having chickens, a couple cows and sending one to slaughter every fall that puts meat in the freezer with the deer you killed. I grew up this way and can tell y'all it's a healthier way to live, OH yeah fishing to have fish in the freezer too. You put up the vegetables in Mason jars,now that's an art, ha e you some fruit trees, you can see it takes a few acres to make it. Y'all are young enough to do it. Thanks guys for the cool memories
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.
Hey Brad, come on out to the Country! You and Lex would love it! We'll help y'all! From Sophia, N.C.
This is a great song a true story and I love Hank Williams Jr I grew up on him.
You can do it. Simple life is the best
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…👏
Damn Right 🙏🏻
"Politically energized condition"?
Country boys can't survive too well in the big city.
The best bart when people resight this song ...when they say trout line ...have obviously never set up a trot line
@@treetop.garage There’s nothing better than slowing your boat, and pulling up those lines. Each line is like Christmas. You hope you’re gonna’ have a lot of presents. Re-baiting your trot-line as you go, is like putting money in the bank. I love hard-working people. They define “freedom”.
Yup !. Love and Respect Canada
That’s the blues sound you’re hearing! Harmonica, Steel guitar, etc.. Bluegrass and Blues!!!!
Growing up in the country, and a small town, this one always has the nostalgia feels.
These days with the way the world is going i would say at least having the basics of providing water, food, and shelter in case things keep going south but its also alot of fun! I really think you guys would enjoy it!
He brought old school back into country at a time it was commercialized.
"If you ain't into that,, We don't give a damn!" Says it all.
is Lex talking about the "steel guitar" when she's talking about the "blooming sound" or the harmonica parts?
A trot line is a submerged line going across a river with baited hooks attached every few feet. You run the line across the river then come back later, pull up the line, and see what you got.
As a kid we used to pull up trot lines that we didn't set. If we had gotten caught it would've been an ass whippin.
Cheers,
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 Man Is Amazing! His Father Was The Great, Hank Williams Sr. Who Sang 'Im So Lonesome I Could Cry! The Steel Guitar Sounds Great!
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.
Steel guitar is the twangy sound yall are hearing. Much love peace out..Tim from Michigan..
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.
Hate to be this guy but, it’s a trot line.
Hate to be this guy but you dont put a comma after the word 'but'.
Hate to be this guy but trotline is one word.
It’s trotline.
Trotline, it’s a line spread across with individual baited “snoods”. And it’s called a trotline because they used to have the horses pull the lines out of the water. It is “trotline”. One word.
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.
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.
I think ya'll would be great in the country. Yall make do with what you got and make the best of every situation. Thats very country.
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.
I agree except willie he is a damn democrat it’s crazy
Sold my beach house and bought 11 acres in the foothills, learning from Hank.
Country uses a lot of fiddle and steel guitar too
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.
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.
If you move to the country, you will find "country folk" are generous with their knowledge. Neighbors help neighbors.
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 song definitely has sort of a bad ass/country folk are resourceful enough to get through anything. They’re tough!
You God Damn Right - we'll die on our feet free men.
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.
I had to scroll too far down to see this. Wanted to make sure someone explained a trot line. IDK what you call it, but we also tie a snood to a milk jug or an empty 2-3 liter bottle and toss them in when fishing a smaller pond before going to bed. Catfish will hang themselves everytime.
@@kerryshankle that's called a jug line
@@johndowney8840 well, that makes too much sense! LMAO 🤣
I firmly believe that you 2, would THRIVE on small town living.
My family in the Northern California mountains live this song. ❤️✌️
Me too! Grew up in Santa Cruz mountains, love that mountain living.
I can totally see Lex gardening, canning and storing while tending chickens, goats & cows in a rural environment while Brad fishes, hunts & butchers his prey.
Glad y’all done this song! Country life is great !
The “Blooming Flower” is a Steel Guitar.
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. :)
His father Hank Williams Sr was a country icon and legend.
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...
Wow! Love that American individualism! Very cool. Thanks, cats.
You can do it Brad,and many folks will teach you.
Hey guys what's up! Greetings from South florida! I live pretty close to the Seminole Indian Reservation down here. I had a lot of Indian friends throughout my life. And the Indians love this guy. I've seen Hank Williams Jr twice. And both times it was at a Seminole pow wow. You should check out one of the other Seminole Indians favorites. John Anderson. Check out his songs swinging, Black Sheep, or my favorite song of his, Seminole Wind. You guys rock! God bless you! Peace!
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.
We have flathead parties that last all weekend. It's a tournament for biggest flathead using trout lines. They'd check and bait their lines like clockwork throughout the weekend Nothing better than belly meat from a flathead!
@@kellymckinney9050 "trotline" is the term. And if y'all are eating flathead all weekend then there is also a substantial quantity of beer washing it down I bet.
We were checking a trotline out in a river once. We had caught a big softshell turtle. He was eating the bait off one hook and he caught his leg on another one.
@@dr.burtgummerfan439 I feel your pain. I've checked my lines before only to find a bunch of fish heads on the hooks. A turtle had eaten the fish and left the heads. Everyone who runs trot lines runs into turtle problems eventually. But other animals learn about the free meal if you set your lines in the same place every time.
@@zippitydoodah5693 Have you ever pulled a stringer of fish out of the water and found a snake swallowing one of them ?
That’s in the top five of my favorite Hank Williams junior songs
Brad..you're more country than ya know. You and Lex would be just fine!
The sound y'all are talking about is the sound of a steel guitar a trotline is also something you lay out across the river and catch catfish on
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!
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
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!
That flowering instrument is a Steel Guitar
Brad I seen your truck you're country everywhere you go ya can't escape it my friend just embrace it
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.
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