FIRST TIME listening to Hank Williams Jr. "A Country Boy Can Survive"(Official Music Video) REACTION
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Old country has soul to it. New country is pop music.
The only “new country” that is good is “Red Dirt Country” from North Texas and Oklahoma.
Nashville sold its soul and make pop garbage.
Pop with a twang! Fake twang. Terrible…..
Faaaaccccttttssss… Morgan Wallen is trash!
There's some gems in any given era. I've heard some new artists that sound like they belong in previous eras. So, the heart and soul is still there, it's just often overshadowed by the pop.
Yea and it doesn’t make you feel like anything but a preppy boy
Yeah I grew up in a mostly rural area and it was common for kids to have guns in their cars and trucks at school(for hunting or just some fun at the range). There was next to no school security either. Then everything went crazy in this country and people started losing their sense of personal responsibility.
I hear ya. I was ten years old, had three long guns in my bedroom that I was responsible for taking care of and I was extremely proficient with and went rabbit, squirrel, and coon hunting alone regularly and I wasn't anything special for the area and time in which I lived.
Same.
I brought my single shot .22 to school and put it in my locker until gym class(we had a shooting range under the stage at to old college gym) so I could check the sights. No one took a second look.
Yep, my school did. When hunting season started, teachers knew kids would be late or not there at all.
Truth
The song survives because it's filled with truth.
I’ve got a shotgun a rifle and a four-wheel-drive and a country boy can survive truer words have never been spoken
Can I comment on your post?
Or wrote lol
Song is 40 years old and still relevant today. Same stuff he wrote about then is hitting us again. True classic.
That’s how a lot of old country songs are cause the old country folks know shit they ain’t dumb
Not again, just still and increasingly worse. No matter the politics, which side ya on they all bout themselves and whomever is paying best. Cities gone to shit in a way ole Hank couldn't have imagined.
the 90s were great the 2000s still were bumping early 2010s hadn't gone PC yet then it all went to hell
1981. 43 years.
History has a tendency to repeat itself when we don't learn from it.
When I was in high school in the early 80's, everyone one had trucks and they kept their rifles in a gun rack mounted in the cab over the back window. We'd go hunting after school. Not a single one of those guns ever shot anyone imagine that:).
I remember when I was growing up in WV that the first 2 or 3 days of deer season that about 90% of male students would be absent lol. Much simpler time.
@@MrBPC76 now they just make those days part of thanksgiving vacation in some districts LOL, but if its not a day off, the first day of deer season is still a skip day for just about any male over 10 years old.
I went to school in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado in 2015 kids had guns in the trucks and would skip school for hunting
That was me. What the hell happened??
them good old days!
We would fall apart as a country if us country boys didn’t exist.
The story is..." we don't need people, people need us."
Hank ain’t lying, a country boy can survive. 🇺🇸
He cheated death falling down a mountain! Legend!
And country gals, too
@@user-rt7vt6dh6r absolutely right! 🇺🇸
You’re darn tootin!
I say it all the time, the people that others will crawl to for food when some sort of bad event happens like the apocalypse will be us farmers
I tell you what if this song don’t get you hyped to be a country boy… living off the land, sticking it to the govt, and and just having a good ole time 🤘🏼
I am a city boy and love this song. It's right and wrong.
Was never really much about sticking to the man as it was a different way of life from the fast paced city life.
Yeah don’t fully glamorize it, sure, we’ll survive but we’ll also be working our poorly educated, unappreciated asses off 24/7 for low wages. Songs a classic jam of course.
Oh yea try to starve me?! ok ill grown and hunt for what ever i need. Oh and by the way i know these mountains a lot better than you you aint gunna find me ill find you
@@scottgarland335 What's it wrong about?
Young lady, I am beyond impressed that you are listening to hank.
I am to max good for her for recognizing true talent 👏
"The Ride" by David Allen Coe
STILL puts chills on me!
Same
Yep. When he sings, “The whole world called me Hank” the hair on my neck stand up every time.
David Alen Coe is highly underrated. He is at the top of the Outlaw Country list for me!
Amen
@@sisleymichaelI Totally Agree with you he's the most famous outlaw ever !!
I graduated from high school in 1970. If you looked in the parking lot you would see a couple of dozen pickups with rifle racks in the back window! Most of us had a .22 rifle for varmints and a shotgun for bigger critters. It was a different time and a different world. When we had a beef with someone we fought it out with our fists. No one ever dreamed of using our rifles. Being young in a small town of 600 people in TEXAS 🇨🇱 was a fantastic way to grow up.💯🤗❤️✌️
graduated in 89 and we still had shotguns in the trucks
Stop using the Chile flag as the Texas flag. Not the same.
@@Urusovite OMG! I don't think I have ever felt so ignorant in my whole life!😫 I've been using the wrong flag for years!👎I'm 72 years old and apparently senile.😂Probably gonna lose my Texas citizenship if this gets out!😞 Can't believe no one before you noticed. Good catch. Thank you!💯
graduated in '91 in a town of 2500 in PA ( one red light ) and this was true then as well. bunch of pickups in the student parking section...every one had a rifle rack in the back window, which housed usually a .22, shotgun, and rifle of whatever caliber the person liked for white tails. No one cared one bit. because differences were settle by hand man to man or woman to woman.
I graduated in 2007, even then guys would come to school with rifles in the back window. I even saw them shoot rabbits in the parking lot, then build a fire in the beds of their trucks to cook the rabbits over the fire. Lol, I ain’t joking either. One of those guys once got arrested for riding his horse through town while drunk and leading the police on a chase.
My grandmother was born in 1922 and grew up during the Great Depression. She and her family lived in the Appalachian mountains - very rural. She said nobody in the area ever had much money, but grew their own food and raised chickens and had a cow. So generally the depression didn't affect them much. She said she did know that they never had it very hard because, "we always had biscuit for breakfast. Everybody had cornbread for supper but you knew people were having hard times when they had cornbread for breakfast."
I thought about it and understood - everybody grew corn. The miller would grind the corn to meal for a portion of the cornmeal so it didn't require any money. Nobody grew wheat, though, because the land wasn't flat enough and the farms were too small. So to have biscuits for breakfast you had to have at least enough cash to buy flour. But even people in her area who were having "hard times" had food.
Most of my fam grew up in East Tn. I wish we never moved away.
Katrina
My Dad was born in 1902, he lived through WW l, the Depression, WW ll, Korea and part of the Vietnam War. He was born and raised in central NC where he lived until his death in 1968. Always farmed, very seldom did without food, always raised chickens, cattle and pigs. Raised and canned all of their fruits and vegetables, nobody went to bed hungry.
@@natbornpullerI've lived in East Tennessee most of my life except the 2 years I lived in Kentucky and I love our way of life
My parents both were born there too, in the 1920's Appalachian mountains. Coal country, everybody lived off the land there.
Dixie proud long live the south . Country boy from Texas 💪
I like this girl she's open-minded and she at least listens and tries to get ideas for Stuff we need more people like this.
Hank Williams Jr is the Truth! He was the first celebrity to be cancelled (the NFL).
His song, in protest to work being shipped to other Countries is a must hear:
“Red, White, and Pink Slip Blues”
God bless Texas 💪🙏
God bless Georgia too
It's definitely true. A country boy can survive. Being born and raised in the country, I was taught to do whatever I needed to know to survive. Now, 74 yrs. later, I still retain all that information and can still physically do whatever is needed to survive. I live on 20 acres of land out in the sticks. My wife and I have a garden for veggies and we both still hunt for meat. Whatever we need, we build ourselves (house, barns, fencing, etc.) Something breaks down, we fix it ourselves. And, at the end of the day, we sit on the back deck, have a glass of homemade wine, and watch the wildlife (deer, turkeys in the pastures and geese and ducks on the pond). No traffic or any other noise to interfere with the peace and quiet. Nuthin like cuntri life.
Amen to that! My dad would raise a glass of bourbon to you
@@user-rt7vt6dh6r If he's sharing, I'll take a Jack & Coke....I also like Crown Royal. :o)
That's the REAL AMERICAN. BUILT TO LAST. one of my personal anthems. What a Sage Hank is.
Alabama has a lot of good songs..."Mountain Music", "Feels So Right", "Tennessee River", "The Closer You Get", "40 Hour Week", "Roll On", many others.
Country royalty. He's the son of Hank Williams...one of the most famous country singer/songwriters in history, as well as the original "bad boy". Hank Sr. is also the subject of quite a few songs, and you should check out "The Ride" by David Allen Coe.
The Ride is in my top 5 songs EVER.
Well said brother.
Mostly right, but the likes of Johnny Cash, WillieNelson, Kriss Kristofferson and Waylon Jennings were country "bad boys" before Hank Jr.
@@terrycornelius3279 Understood...but I was referring to Hank Sr.
"The Conversation" by Hank Jr and Waylon is a good one too.
I'm from West Virginia and I can relate to that song. My grandmother had a farm and root cellar, water well and out house. My father could farm and hunt and fish .We had guns when we were kids but was taught how to be safe with them. When the grocery stores are raided and run out of food guess who will survive!
Wood county here brother. This was/is our anthem😏
I grew up on a farm in southern WV. We still raise a garden yearly and have livestock that we subsist on. Most people these days don’t have a clue about how to care for themselves. They depend on everyone else to supply things for them. I’m teaching my kids to help themselves and not wait for handouts.
@@REDBEARDBLACKTEETH You and I both my friend. When it comes, we will be ready👊🏼
@@REDBEARDBLACKTEETH
Most will be dead in a week without electricity or an internet connection.
@@johnny.d.1930 Truth 💣
Yea Girl you get it.
A country boy will survive
its only as reliable as you make it. i was homeless in Birmingham. i moved back to rural texas. im the same person in both places. but i own my land in texas. if you plan on living off the land. best own it. that said i love my life at my lowest and now. do for others yall. even if you have nothing. Salvation Army is the best thing to happen to me. im a proud soldier. i will always be there for my brother and sister. its not us and them. its all of us American. love your channel sister.
Having grown up in southern IL, know exactly what you mean. When this came out, it was my high school's un-official song. It's exactly what it was like. We had guns in our trucks parked in the school's parking lot and not a thing was said about it. If you went deer hunting on the first day of deer season, it was an excused absence, and many of the teachers were out too. Hank is Outlaw Country.
From east central Alabama here. We also used to keep our guns in our trucks, on gun racks in the rear window. One day my friend came to school with a brand new Browning bolt action rifle. We all gathered at his truck during lunch to look at it. The principal walked up to us and said, "That better not be loaded." and continued on by. Now a days, the school would be on lock down, helicopters and the ATF would be swarming the school.
It was the same here in southern Arkansas.
@@gordonduke8812
I’m not a country music fan but I will always listen to Hank Jr and Alabama
You know y'all messing with hillbillies when you end up fish hooked by a deer trotline. Y'all youns go play down yonder!
My first concert 1981, 10th B'day . Hank and Alabama at Boutwell Auditorium ,B'ham. Best present a little country boy could get .💯
Hank Williams Jr is a legend 🙌 in music.
Every time my dad had to drive me to high school he would blare this song with the windows down when we pulled up to the student drop off in his big ass 4x4 truck and I smiled every time!
This is one of the greatest songs he ever created and being a country woman it holds a special place in my heart :) I hope you like it and Merry Christmas!!
This song is 43 years old and is as relevant now as it was then. The more things change the more they stay the same.
That’s the true test of a song is how long it stays around and stays relevant and true.
Hank used to live just up the road, good dude.
We still have skeet/trap teams in school here.
Most of us country boys are raised and molded around this song.
After joining the Navy I realized how lucky I am to grow up in a small town in Missouri where we also had a trap shooting team and would put our shotguns in the principles office during the day and grab them at the end to go to our meets. It blows my mind how many people don't know how to hunt, fish, trap, or do anything farm related. Its nuts haha
Truth, you should see the looks my kids friends give me when I talk about running my own trap lines by twelve. Then their eyes practically pop out when I tell them I got my first rifle for my eighth birthday. Folks think I am joking when I tell them my wife and I mostly ate greens growing wild in our front yard the year we bought our house. Half of them think we were eating grass clippings and the rest think I am making it up. Roast squirrel and dandelion green salad makes for a fine dinner.
@@bjornronaldson6017 it’s blows my mind the amount of people that don’t understand a simple garden and going out every weekend from Sept-X month and squirrel/rabbit hunting for fun and ending up with free food
Hank is the country boy that can survive he even fell off a mountian fell 500 feet and survived …. He is Country Royalty…. You should do the Queen of county Loretta Lynn her song Coal Miners Daughter it’s a true story of her life ….
His concerts are still wild at 75 Lilly❤
Hank Williams Johnny Cash and Marty Robbins were and still are the real cowboys of Country Westren
When I was in high school most of the boys, and some of the girls, drove pick-up trucks with shotguns or rifles in racks in the back window. It was such a common sight in the school parking lot nobody thought anything of it. Our parents and grandparents taught us all (boys and girls) how to take care of ourselves and our families by living off the land. My husband is retired military, and I can still outshoot him.
The F'N MAN! So glad you picked an all time outlaw country song by "BOCEPHUS". Seen this man more times in the 80's than everyone else put together.
David Allen Coe.
This has been one of my top 5 songs for the last 20 years or so
This is the very song I ever memorized word for word when I was 14 years old when it came out on the radio back in like 1980 81. I always sing an acapella when I'm out walking around the farm❤😊
Country Boy here. 536 population. Missouri/Arkansas. Always on the river and always hunting. Running the side-by-side through the mud and hanging with friends, drinking whiskey, and cold beers.
Hank Williams Jr's father was also a famous singer and was also called Hank Williams. Hank Sr sadly died at the young age of 29 but left behind some of the most iconic country songs of all time. Also listen to The Conversation where Hank Jr and Waylon Jennings are chatting together about Hank Sr.
His son has a more than a few albums out that are quite good - Hank Williams III - and two of his grandsons Hank Williams IV and IV also have some decent music out.
I also would recommend "The Ride" by David Alan Coe, because it is about Hank Sr. meeting the singer - from beyond the grave.
@@cryptozoomauler5505 "The Ride" would be a good intro to DAC.
Lily. lotta truth about almost two different worlds.
Like my mom and dad both went through the great Depression. My dad in the city and they had to work super hard to make it-- Daddy selling magazines door to door at ten years old to help the family. He told us thatv after the stock market crash in about 1929, many people who had their security in that lost hope sadly, literally jumped off buildings to take their lives.
Our Mom grew up with probably less economically but they had faith and each other. Not at all saying was easy, but she said they didn't even know there was a Depression going on.
Even today, out in the rural country, neighbors help neighbors. I heard of one south Texas rancher who lived outside a tiny town. His pasture caught on fire at 3:00 am in the morning. He called his neighbor who came out and helped him put out the fire. And like Hank sings, country folks even if not a farmer, often grow their own garden and have their own water well.
And back in "pioneer" days say in 1800s, often in remote areas where husband, wife and kids had to be pretty sharp to know how to live off the land and do it all-- or perish. Like the country folks today Hank mentions.
Sad and crazy, but so often young men and women today who grew up in the city and have good hearts. But when asked where tbings like milk and food come from, they say "the grocery store."
They're NOT dumb, they just only know this almost artificial, synthetic tech-driven life in the city but little life experience with "real" life like dirt, fresh country breezes, trees older than folks remember beneath the nearby hills, gurgling streams and fishing for catfish for fun and food. And "entertainment" may be sitting on the porch with family or neighbors sharing life and each others' stories where the winds still whisper through the trees long after everyone sleeps deep without gun shots in the night streets and the glow of the digital world was quietly powered off .😊
Not saying that country life easy or without problems. Often drugs and even human/ sex trafficking and other destructive influen es from usually urban areas can reach young people in small towns via unmonitored internet use. But overall ...
But not too late to learn. Even to grow a few veggies in a city yard or even indoors on an apartment balcony, etc. Or maybe listen to bird's singing in the morning before work. 😊
Thanks, Lily!😊
Cheers.
I'm born and raised Southern Illinois, 20 miles from Ohio/Mississippi split in Cairo and yes you most definitely experienced this "Country Boy Can Survive" lifestyle LOL we love our Hank Jr ❤
I grew up just south of you in north west Tennessee
near Reelfoot lake
@@joshuaharris4607 been to Reelfoot every July for over 29 yrs for family reunion, my in-laws were from Tiptonville so that's where we spend a lot of time there. It's a short little vacation for a weekend to. Eagles Nest in Samburg is where we stay.
When i was in high school, at a private K-12 school, any student that drove could bring their rifles and shotguns, as long as they were unloaded and stayed in the vehicle. Moat of us were country as hell, me included. Additionally, we were allowed to carry pocket knives. Folding style only, and 3.5 inch blades or less. Was awesome
Yeah. Everyone had a pocket knife. Are those even legal now?
@@dathorndike4908 not in schools. Must be "weapon free."
As if we haven't already been shown how to use pens and pencils as weapons by the "movie heroes."
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If shit goes down, like it seems like this world is headed, you're gonna wish you knew some country Boys! I'm thankful my friend is married to one, and I'm heading straight to her if shit does down! 😂❤
For me, the best part of this is how much she us diggin' on Hank....
42 years old raised on a family owned 1,000 acre plant nursery in Southern Louisiana. My dad gave me my first shotgun when I was 8 years old. Crack barrel .410. Was hunting by myself with an old Remington 12 gauge automatic before I hit my teenage years. Was literally a way of life back then. What a great era and place to grow up in.
This song makes me proud I learned to do so many survival skills.
As an older person my parents grew up during the depression and I learned to be thankful in what you have and to try and be mostly self sufficient. We were not allowed to leave the table without finishing our plate and you never wasted food. I hope it doesn't come to a depression but it means no jobs poor and homeless everywhere its not a good thing.
Welcome to the world where there are no auto-tuners, where men can play instruments and carry a tune. You might like late 60's, early 70's rock for the same reasons.
It's the best country song ever made by the best country singer ever
When shit hits the fan it’s a good idea to make friends with us country boys! Great song and great reaction!
Someone mentioned Jamey Johnson’s In Color and I second that suggestion. You seem to have an appreciation for songs with meaning so I think you will really enjoy it. Great reaction to Hank Jr btw. He’s one of my favorites. 😊
In color is one of the best ever and should have won that year
Hank Williams junior is a great man
That's why someone once described Country Music as......three chords and the truth.
Luchenbach Texas or mommas dont let your babies grow up to be cowboys by Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings, and when your mind is twisted and warped, its time for David Alan Coe, Amos Moses by Jerry Reed is a great tune as well
I was the same way. I'm a metal head at heart... pre 90'. Then I picked up a bass guitar. Music is just music. It's just good. I "like" ALOT more than i did. Happy new year from Texas.
I was born in 82. Graduated 2000. I've lived this my whole life. I love this song. Even though I am more into heavier music. I now own my family small beef farm. My wife and kids all live it. It's honest. And no one messes with us. Not only because of respect for one another. But if anyone did? They won't leave the way they came in. Family and property comes first. If anyone is dumb enough to try and take that? I have ditches to fill. So do my neighbors. God bless America.
Someone sent me a message that they wanted to talk to me. Now I can't find it.
Hank Williams was the GOAT for old time country
Hank Jr was rock country they play his songs at football games
Hank Williams the third is a Metal God
Good gene in that family
Kind of weird to hear this described as new country. the song is over 40 years old. But that is how good it is. It still stands rings true today.
Have you ever listened to Aron Lewis country boy ( Aron Lewis from Stained ) check it out he also sings country music
Country music comes from the heart. You can take the boy out of the country but you can't take the country out of the boy.
One of the best songs ever
I am a rocky mountain country boy. This song has a lot of truth. I can catch and forage a meal faster than a round trip to the grocery store. I can't remember the first time I pulled a trigger. At 10 years old, It was normal to go a friend's house and be handed a box of ammo and some guns with the instructions of "be home before dark and if you kill it, you eat it"
I live in rural Arkansas so this one hits home for me.
Aaron Lewis “Country Boy “ is another good one to check out!!!
This is how our family grew up..
Growing up in a small town surrounded by woods, mountains and farms in Southwestern PA, this song (like many others have said) pretty much nails it. Pickups, rifle racks, root cellars, well water, hunting, fishing, gardening and canning/preserving vegetables ALL very commonplace. Like he also sings, religion also a big part of life. "We say grace. We say Amen. If ya ain't into that we don't give a damn"! ❤🇺🇸👍
Hank is “outlaw country”! He has many, many songs that are awesome. Try “Bluesman” and “Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound” Great reaction! And yes, we country folks can survive! 😁
I was born and grew up in the mountains of northeastern Alabama...and, as others have commented, there were quite a few shotguns and rifles in student's vehicles at school in my day (class of '93). I ,myself, received my first rifle (a Marlin .22 bolt-action) for Christmas when I was 12. My parents had been teaching me about firearm safety and target shooting for a couple of years prior. At 13, a close buddy and I would go on week long camping trips by ourselves. We would take plenty of provisions, sleeping bags, a boom box (for tunes lol), a shotgun, a rifle along with plenty of ammo, and we would build ourselves a tee-pee type shelter. And we had always had an absolute blast (no pun intended).
Lily, Here are some Country essentials you need to check out.
"Coal Miners Daughter"-Loretta Lynn
"Stand By Your Man"-Tammy Lynette
"Mama Tried"-Merle Haggard
"Family Tradition"-Hank Jr.
"Honk Tonk Heroes"-Waylon Jennings
"You Never Even Called Me By My Name"-David Allan Coe
"He Stopped Loving Her Today"-George Jones
"If We Make It Through December"-Merle Haggard
"Tiger By The Tail-Buck Owens
"Coat of Many Colors"-Dolly Parton
Murder on Music Row - Alan Jackson and George Strait
Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes - George Jones
Okie From Muskogee - Merle Haggard
The Fighting Side of Me - Merle Haggard
Anything by Chris LeDoux
I'm from small town Nebraska. I was a junior in HS when Columbine happened. Up before that day, every pick-up in the school parking lot had a rifle, a shotgun, or both in a gun rack in the back window. We could leave our windows down during school hours and nobody would steal our guns. Or anything else from our vehicles for that matter.
It really was a different world back then.
You're growing musically, Lilly. That's a positive. I'm retired Old Skool Goth (80s/90s) and I listen to everything from Country to DooWop to NewWave to Grunge to EDM to Classical. You're headed the right way. ;-)
Also- check out Miranda Lambert "Gunpowder & Lead" and then Charlie Daniels "Simple Man" and Jamey Johnson "In Color" and George Strait "Carrying Your Love" or "I can still make Cheyenne"
Don't forget about Midnight in Montgomery by Allen Jackson.
I also grew up (and still live in) rural Ohio. Its such a testament to just how great this song was that it is as relevant today as when I first heard it 42 years ago now. True classic!
I remember exactly where I was the first time I heard this song. It struck a chord then and still does today. Times have changed , but not for the better in the intervening years. Hank's kinda' like extended family, one of my cousins played bass for him in his first band. Hank has had an "interesting life" he's had the highest highs (literally and figuratively) and the lowest of lows (he was basically dead when he fell off the mountain). He's country royalty, born into it and yet some in country music despise him. Love him or hate him, he's a hellof a songwriter and entertainer!!!
Another huge difference is most country folk have integrity!
This was essentially my childhood life growing up. We grew, hunted, fished, or raised almost all our own food. There were more deer than people in the area.
Hank Jr. is a legend. This is a song that encompasses time. The a capella group Home Free does a very good rendition of this song as well. For country songs, Alabama - Angels Among Us and Kenny Rogers - Lady are top notch. If you are looking at different genres, then David Lanz - Return To The Heart is a great piano piece or Scorpions - Still Loving You is a great classic rock number. It may remind you off Pink Floyd.
Home Free is a solid recommendation!
I agree with your other suggestions as well.
Johnny Rodriguez - Riding My Thumb to Mexico. One of the best voices in country back in the 70s when I was in high school. Another is Doug Sahm (with the Texas Tornados) - She Never Spoke Spanish To Me. I grew up in South Texas, speak English and Spanish, and the culture here is different. The Texas Tornados was a group of guys from different types of bands / styles of music. Flaco Jiménez, Augie Meyers, Doug Sahm, and Freddy Fender. Their music is a fusion of conjunto (German and Norteño Mexican fusion music of Texas) with rock, country, and various Mexican styles.
I was raised in Tucson, arizona..hunting, fishing ...neighbors looked out for each other. I cant recall when I didn't have a gun on my hip, after age 14..its the way we grew up...in the Arizona mountains.
Girl, I live in the suburbs and love it, but I grew up doing all of that. Once your heart embraces mother nature nothin compares. I picked up rocks out of fields to build fences. Dug outhouse holes. The city is like living in a different reality. It is living in a bubble. Pick a clear moonless night and look up at the sky into darkness. Then get in a car and drive out where there are no lights. Look up, listen, breath. That is home.
AMEN to that !
Your reaction earned my subscription. If you want to hear country genius listen to Johnny Cash's "God's gonna cut you down." Or Hank Williams Sr's "Your cheating heart". As an older southern man I can assure you we look out for our neighbors in the rural areas and yes if you see 40 country people men and women together figure on at least 80 guns present. City folks do city things but we live a peaceful and peacefilled life because everyone has that faithful companion Sam Colt spoke of.
I am from South East Georgia when I was in high school in the late 80s early 90s we had guns in our trucks. we carried pocket knives and everyone knew it. guns are a way of life. got my first 22 at 5 years old
I got to meet Hank Williams Jr. at a concert in South Florida. He is a big man.
I felt dwarfed by him and I’m 5’ 9”.
He was drunk back stage even before the show started.
I love him and his music, but this is the only concert that I got up and walked out of in the middle of the show.
He was so drink that he forgot the lyrics to a lot of his dints.
He is an interesting man and has had a very interesting life.
There was a TV documentary of his life called “Living Proof: The Hank Williams Jr. Story” and he was played by Richard Thomas (John Boy on The Waltons).
It’s a very interesting documentary.
If you like his music I suggest watching this and you’ll learn a whole lot more about him and struggles he had growing up in his legendary father’s (Hank Williams Sr.) shadow.
My high school had a rifle range which any student could use during free periods or after school when the rifle teams weren't training (during the 1970's). They even provided rifles, 50 rounds of free ammo (22 LR) per day, targets and coaching on gun safety (of course) and basic marksmanship. You could also use your own rifle. I didn't have time to take advantage of the resource often but once in a while it was a nice break from the school routine.
Your next Hank Williams Jr reaction video you do. Has to be "Family Tradition" live from 1982!
I'm 60 and this is the music of a lost era. Hank has been around for a long time. Here in Kentucky shotguns, trucks and hunting.
It because of the way we are raised... We are taught to be self sufficient and not rely on stores all the time. We invented recycling and repurposing. No one really got rich from farming. Had to have large Families so the kids could help out. Learned alot working together to get by and through the hard times. Taught to conserve what ever we get and to greatful for what we do have. Folks will ban together when needed and will help you out because they can count on you coming to help them out.
Patty Loveless "You'll never leave Harlan alive." great story song and good music too. There is a version of her and Chis Stapleton doing it but I like her by herself she gives me chills when she sings it.
One of the best reactions to this song.... if you really want to get into traditional country check out George Strait. 61 #1 hits. Songs like the chair, Amarillo by morning, carried away, i cross my hear, good at goodbye, unwound, baby blue, easy come easy go. The list goes on and on
Don't forget , A fire I can't put out
I lived in tge swamps of Louisiana for a long time. Way out in the bayou. I personally knew people that hadn't gone "into town" their whole life. Totally self sufficient existence....for miles in all direction. One guy, was over 80 yrs old, as best he could remember, with no documentation of his birth. Sharp as a knife with real world intelligence. And a survivor of three direct impacts from hurricanes. No electricity, no phone, no refrigerator. Just a large smokehouse and salt barrels for preserving meats that he harvested locally. He had chickens, ducks, rabbits & pigeons he raised. And would hunt "the dry lands" in his area. He'd trade other's for things he wanted. Everyone knew him & respected him.
It gets better the louder it gets
And the drunker I get
Hank Jr isn't exactly my cup o tea but I can admit that song is pretty much perfect. I think you'd also really like Highwayman by the Highwaymen (Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson). One of my favorite songs.
Another "anthem" if you will - Copperhead Road by Steve Earle 🤠
The difference between bad things happening in the city versus in the country is that in the country bad things have a way of just disappearing!
Amen
I remember hearing this in the mid 80’s as a 10 year old kid in the middle of winter, grandpas garage with the wood stove burning hot, working on some nets he used to fish in the river. It was very catchy and I always remembered “I got a shotgun, a rifle and a 4-wheel drive”. Because my grandpa had those and I figured this song is about him. He hunted, fished and was a coal miner.
2 country songs you really should listen to, "Wait in the Truck" by Hardy and "Alyssa Lies" by Jason Michael Carroll
Drove tractor, plowed the field, harvested corn, tobacco, baled hay, milked the cows, nursed the calves, fed the chickens and collected the eggs weeded a 1 acre garden, learned to shoot, hunted rabbits squirrels and deer….. all by the age of 12. Now I own 3 semi trucks employing 4 people, jamming gears every day. You better believe Country Boy can survive
Georgia southern here and this is on my Playlist. My saying is you're either on my side or in my dam way. I promise you country folk can survive!
I am from Guatemala and I grew up in my country but 15 years ago I came to work in Georgia and I live here permanently but this song should be an anthem. I love this song. I LOVE COUNTRY SONGS