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Hank Williams Senior     In a recording career of less than six years, Hank Senior became the best loved, most influential country singer ever. With love-lorn hits like "Your Cheatin' Heart," he revolutioized country music, attracting fans of pop, blues, and rock.  With a hillbilly twang, he sang racy honkly-tonk songs next to tender gospel ballads, and his wide-brimmed hat was his symbol.  From his dirt-poor childhood with a domineering mother, he was driven to drugs by a crippling spinal disease and into despair by two failed marriages. Hank Senior couldn't read or write music, but he had created some 125 compositios, many of which have subsequently become classics of popular music. Hank Senior recorded 35 singles (five singles release posthumously) that reached the Top Ten of  the Billboard Country and Western Best Seller chart, including 11 that ranked number one (three posthumously). Hank Senior died on New Year's Day1953 at the age 29, his heart failing in the back seat of his car near Lake Hills, West Virginia, en route to a concert Canton, Ohio.

Hank Williams III     An American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He was the drummer of hardcore punk band Arson Anthem, and bassist of Phil Anselmo's band Superjoint Ritual. Predominantly styled in country music, punk rock and heavy metal,  Hank III has released eleven studio albums, five of which under the label Curb Records. one live album, four compilation albums, and 49 singles. His discography is noted for a large number of projects released without his permission. 
Hank III, is the grandson of Hank Senior and the son of Hank Junior, capitalizing on his family name and resemblance to his grandfather, he signed a contract with Nashville music industry giant Curb Records. Three Hanks: Men with Broken Hearts was issued shortly thereafter, which spliced together recordings to make it seem that three generations of Williams men were singing alongside one another. In the late 1980s, upon first meeting Hank III, Minnie Pearl, a friend of Hank  Senior, reportedly said "Lord, honey, you're a ghost", as she was astonished by his striking resemblance to his grandfather.
The success of the "Three Hanks" album garnered Hank Junior. and Hank III a Vocal Duo of the Year nomination by the Academy of Country Music in 1997.  Hank III, first solo album, Risin' Outlaw, was released in September 1999 to respectable sales and strong reviews.  In 2003, Hank III recorded This Ain't Country for Curb, who chose not to release it. On May 17, 2011, Curb released the album under the title Hillbilly Joker, without the consent or input from Hank III after his contract with the label had been terminated.
In 2006, after resolving a contractual dispute with Curb Records, Hank III, released Straight to Hell on Curb's rock imprint, Bruc. Battles with Walmart delayed the appearance of this album, which was released on February 28, 2006, as a two-disc set in two formats: a censored version (for Wal-Mart), and an uncensored version that was the first major-label country album ever to bear a parental advisory warning. Straight to Hell was also the first release through Curb's Bruc Records imprint. However, the uncensored version was released through Bruc, and the clean version was released through Curb. One of the songs, "Pills I Took", was written by a little-known Wisconsin group called Those Poor Bastards, who originally released the song on their 2004 CD Country Bullshit. His album, Rebel Within, was released in May 2010, and was his last album with Curb Records.  It charted at number 20 in Billboard magazine.  Hank III did not have any officially charted hits on mainstream country music charts.
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Hank Williams Junior (Bocephas)     Hank Junior. or Bocephus, is an American singer-songwriter and musician. His musical style has been described as a blend of rock, blues, and country. He is the son of country musician Hank Senior and the father of musician Hank III.
Hank Junior began his career following in his famed father's footsteps, covering his father's songs and imitating his father's style. Hank Junior first television appearance was in a December 1963 episode of The Ed Sullivan Show, in which at the age of fourteen he sang several songs associated with his father. 
As Hank Junior struggled to define his own voice and place within the country music genre, his style began slowly to evolve. His career was interrupted by a near-fatal fall while he was climbing Ajax Peak in Montana on August 8, 1975.  After an extended recovery, he rebuilt his career in both the country rock and outlaw country scenes.  As a multi-instrumentalist, Hank  Junior's repertoire of musical instrument skills includes guitar, bass guitar, upright bass, steel guitar, banjo, dobro, piano, keyboards, saxophone, harmonica, fiddle, and drums. In 1976, Rolling Stone wrote that Hank Junior's "mainstream country material has always been among Nashville's best".
Hank Junior was prolific throughout the 1980s, sometimes recording and releasing two albums a year, resulting in a long string of hits.  Between 1979 and 1992, Hank Junior released 21 albums—18 studio albums and three compilations—that were all certified at least gold by the RIAA. Between 1979 and 1990, he enjoyed a string of 30 Top Ten singles on the Billboard Country charts, including eight No. 1 singles, for a total of 44 Top Ten singles, including a total of 10 No. 1 singles, during his career.  In 2020, Hank Junior was inducted into the Country Music Hall of  Fame.