* CoveredUp: This has gone both ways:
** "Mind Your Own Business" was originally a #5 hit for his dad in 1949.
** "I'll Think of Something" became more famous when Music/MarkChesnutt released it in 1992.
* FanNickname: "Bocephus," a nickname his father gave him. Hank Jr. also recorded some songs as "Luke the Drifter Jr." as an homage to his father's alter ego of Luke the Drifter.
* GrowingTheBeard: This occurred both figuratively and literally in the mid-1970s, as his sound really came into focus around the time that he grew his distinctive beard.
* SpiritualSuccessor: He started out his career as one for his father. He even did three whole albums of spoken-word pieces credited to Luke the Drifter, Jr.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
** 1981: "All My Rowdy Friends (Have Settled Down)" is full of {{Shout Out}}s to what many of his contemporaries were doing at the time: Music/GeorgeJones is "getting straight", Music/WaylonJennings "is staying home and loving Jessi [Colter] more these days", Music/JohnnyCash "don't act like he did back in '68", and Creator/KrisKristofferson "is a movie star and he's moved off to LA". It also counts as HarsherInHindsight given that the only people name-dropped in the song who are still alive as of 2013 are Kris Kristofferson and Jessi Colter (Jennings died in 2002, Cash in 2003, and Jones in 2013).
** 1984's "Video Blues" describes the novelty of buying a VCR and being able to own home copies of movies.
** 1985's "This Ain't Dallas," which [[ShoutOut makes several references]] to then popular {{Prime Time Soap}}s as ''{{Series/Dallas}}'' and ''Series/Dynasty1981'' and their characters.
** The [=Y2K=] version of "A Country Boy Can Survive".
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