Hank Williams Jr. & Waylon Jennings Score New Gold Certification With Classic Duet “The Conversation”

Adding some hardware to the pile. Some artists may cower in the face of trying to follow in their successful parents footsteps, and while Hank Williams Jr. may have done it more successfully than any other in history, it doesn't mean it was easy. He opened up about the pressure of being the great Hank's son in a 1982 interview with David Letterman, speaking about initially trying to keep his father's sound alive before making the decision to go his own way: " Hank Williams Jr., that name gets you started real good in some ways, and it also closes some doors in other ways. I played my first show when I was eight years old, recording for MGM at fourteen. And it was fun for the little boy to do Hank Williams, but it was hell for the man... You know, they wanted any part of him that they could get back. I didn’t have music on my mind very much. I’d go out and do these shows. I wasn’t too serious about it at eight. Fourteen, sixteen we did MGM ‘Your Cheatin’ Heart,’ that was a gold album. Then after some marriages and divorces and things like that, then I got serious. I started writing some of my own things." As we all know now, that worked out just fine for Bocephus and he became arguably the biggest country star of the 1980's. While not as active now at 75 years old, Hank Jr. is still quite popular, as shown by his most recent RIAA certifications from this past week. On October 10th, Hank Jr. was awarded with two new Gold awards for songs released in 1979 and 1981. "Dixie On My Mind" was Hank Jr.'s fourth career number one. Released as the second single from his 1981 album titled Rowdy , it features a common theme in Bocephus' catalogue, a growing fatigue from city life that has him begging to get back down south. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0AIgV2nyO0 The other song that just reached the 500,000 units sold mark was a collaboration with another country music icon, Mr. Waylon Jennings . "The Conversation" was originally released in 1979 on Williams Jr.'s Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound album but was later reissued on Waylon's 1983 album Waylon and Company. Written by Jr. and Jennings with some help from Richie Albright, the song goes through the complex relationship of Hank Jr.'s parents, Hank and Audrey. Hank let's talk about your daddy tell me how your mama loved that man
Well just break out a bottle hoss I'll tell you bout the driftin' cowboy band
We won't talk about the habits just the music and the man ... Well back then they called him crazy now days they call him a saint
Now the ones that called him crazy are still ridin' on his name
Well if he was here right now Bocephus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v87acwCXy4c Any time songs are still earning new sales records 40+ years after their release you know it's something special. Here's to the great Hank Williams Jr. and Waylon Jennings.