YMMV / Hank Williams Jr.

• Covered Up: 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 Mark Chesnutt released it in 1992.
• Fan Nickname: "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.
• Growing the Beard: 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.
• Spiritual Successor: 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.
• Unintentional Period Piece:
  • 1981: "All My Rowdy Friends (Have Settled Down)" is full of Shout Outs to what many of his contemporaries were doing at the time: George Jones is "getting straight", Waylon Jennings "is staying home and loving Jessi [Colter] more these days", Johnny Cash "don't act like he did back in '68", and Kris Kristofferson "is a movie star and he's moved off to LA". It also counts as Harsher in Hindsight 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 makes several references to then popular Prime Time Soaps as Dallas and Dynasty (1981) and their characters.
  • The Y2K version of "A Country Boy Can Survive".

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