WILLIAMS, HANK, JR.
(*1949)
WILLIAMS, HANK, JR. (b. Randall H. W., Shreveport, La., May 26, 1949) Son of the legendary country musician, HANK WILLIAMS, Hank has toiled in the shadow of his famous father for many years, often suffering in more ways than one from the comparison. Following a brush with death in the mid-1970s after an accident while mountain climbing, Williams was reborn as a hell-raising country OUTLAW, an image that by the early 1990s was proving to be somewhat confining. Williams's career was shaped by his…