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Article: Hank Williams Jr. irrelevant? Kid Rock begs to differ
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- AP Worldstream
- Article date:
- January 25, 2002
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Dateline: NASHVILLE, Tennessee
How's this for being out of fashion? When Lost Highway Records put
together a tribute album to his father last year, Hank Williams Jr.
wasn't asked to contribute.
"Yeah, I heard about that and I thought, `Gosh, they never called,
'" the 52-year-old country music singer said. "Maybe I didn't get
the message."
But the record label did ask his son, Hank Williams III, who did a
song on the Grammy-nominated "Timeless _ Hank Williams Tribute" CD.
He brushes off the slight. But it shows the odd turn his career has
taken. Although deeply grounded in the blues and other American roots
music, his bombastic image ...