Hank Williams, Jr.’s ‘Georgia Women’ video highlights the legend’s charmed Nashville life

Fifty-seven albums into his 58-year profession and through his June 17-released album “Wealthy White Honky Blues,” Hank Williams, Jr. is lastly able to open up the guide on the roots of his legendary profession. By way of a canopy of blues legend, R.L. Burnside’s 25-year-old traditional “Georgia Girls,” Bocephus achieves tapping into the spirit of his father’s iconic instructor Rufus “Tee Tot” Payne, and a century of different blues legends.

With the just-released video for the only, Williams, Jr. solely tells the Tennessean that he is paying a good deeper homage to his roots.

“I have never at all times walked out in entrance of 25,000 individuals. I’ve performed quite a lot of honkytonks in my lifetime.” He provides that Nashville’s Springwater Supper Membership and Lounge — Tennessee’s oldest constantly open and operational bar, the place the video was filmed — makes him bear in mind one other legendary venue.

“The bar that Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi performed at in The Blues Brothers? You recognize, the one with the rooster wire across the stage so when the [patrons] threw bottles on the stage the band members would not get hit? Yeah. That is taken from a spot that I and lots of others used to play referred to as Rac’s Hut in Jackson Mills, New Jersey.”

Notable as properly is Simple Eye Sound producer — and “Wealthy White Honky Blues” session band member  — Dan Auerbach making an on-screen look. It is the primary time he is finished so for any artist he is produced. Given Hank Jr.’s influences when entering into the studio to file, Auerbach’s involvement makes extra sense.

“After I was 13, I listened to each, each, each track by Jimmy Reed, B.B. King, Lightnin’ Hopkins, R.L. Burnside and John Lee Hooker. Now, I am 72 and have not simply spent my life listening to them, I’ve performed with all these cats,” states Williams, grinning broadly.