Attempting to share his love for the outside with associates went horribly fallacious.
It’s no secret that the outlaw legend, Hank Williams Jr., is an avid outdoorsman outdoors of his music profession. From a younger age, Hank Jr. has been within the woods, and his love for the outside —looking, fishing, and respect for the land — has not pale one bit as he’s aged.
Again in 1992, Bocephus sat down and talked about his love for the outside. He shared some tales in regards to the wildlife he’d interacted with over time.
“My life and the outside, be it looking and fishing, was handed all the way down to me from my nice grandfather, grandfather, and father. They have been all hunters and fishermen; Daddy beloved looking and fishing.”
He talks about how regardless that Sr. handed when he was three, his grandfather, who lived in South Alabama, would spend time with him within the woods—this time together with his grandfather actually solidified his love for the outside. As Hank Jr. acquired older, he beloved to share his ardour for the outside together with his associates, bringing them alongside on hunts and permitting cameras to seize him in a tree stand.
Certainly one of his associates, Joe Nichols, just lately sat down with Dillon Weldon on the Drifting Cowboy podcast and shared that he had the honour of looking one time with Hank Williams Jr., however his white lie of how skilled a hunter he was got here again to chunk him within the butt large time.
“I went to Hank Jr.’s home. First time I’ve frolicked with Hank Jr. He wished to go looking, he wished to take me turkey looking. And I’m like, ‘Yeah, completely, let’s go looking.’ He’s like, ‘Ever been looking earlier than?’ I’m like, ‘Oh, yeah!’
Lie.
I’d been looking earlier than, however I’d by no means took it critical. I by no means had a rifle, so I by no means actually acquired to hunt that a lot. I used to be extra into fishing. He was like, ‘Yeah, carry your 12-gauge and we’ll go do that and this.’ I’m like, ‘Alright, I’ll go do this.’ I needed to go get a 12-gauge…”
Joe Nichols was solely below the impression that he was going to hitch Hank Jr. for some gentle looking and perhaps goal follow, however that the 2 males would spend extra time writing music, consuming whiskey, and taking pictures the s*** with one another.
“I’m considering I’m going to go down to hang around with Hank Jr. for a few days, and we’re gonna get hammered, and we’re going to play ‘The Blues Man’ and ‘Household Custom,’ and we’re simply going to take a seat round a campfire and play music. That’s what I believed was going to occur.”
Effectively, that impression of the weekend was removed from what actually unfolded:
Effectively, Hank Jr. actually meant looking. CMT got here and introduced a digital camera crew down there; they have been going to do that present with Hank Jr. referred to as ‘Hank’s Wildlife Adventures,’ or one thing like that. This was going to be one of many first episodes of this present; he was going to take me trying to find turkeys. He thought I’d been looking, and it was a trainwreck. It was a catastrophe!
I confirmed up and I acquired this gun I’ve by no means fired earlier than and I’ve acquired a half gallon of whiskey and I’ve acquired a guitar, and I’m like ‘Alright, it’s going to be time.’ He handed me this turkey name — and it’s a drum. It’s slightly drum factor and striker, which I didn’t know what the hell it was. He goes, ‘Right here, work on that, we’ll get your gobble no matter proper.’
Though Nichols was very stunned to see the digital camera crew and needed to come to the conclusion that he wanted to buckle up, to not make himself seem like a idiot, all these efforts have been proper out the window when Hank Jr. handed him a pot name, which is a two-handed friction-based turkey name that may create all kinds of turkey sounds.
Though this type of name is often thought-about straightforward to make use of, the percentages weren’t in Nichols’ favor, shortly revealing that he was not the seasoned hunter Hank Jr. thought he had invited to his cabin.
“He turns that method, the digital camera is on me, and I’m like (makes an inaudible noise). At this age proper now, I can look again and go, my god, that needed to be the dumbest factor anyone has ever carried out on digital camera.
He turns round and sees me and goes, ‘What the hell is fallacious with you? What are you doing?’ I’m like, ‘Uh, I don’t understand how this works. I don’t know what I’m doing.’ I feel at that second he’s like, ‘Oh no. Oh god. Okay. He’s by no means been looking earlier than.’”
Nichols says that the occasion was only one factor after one other, and he was nonetheless consuming on the time, which led to whole catastrophe. In fact, all of this was captured on digital camera for CMT, and all of it got here to a head after they acquired into the stand the subsequent morning. Hank Jr stored having to get up Nichols to take pictures, and so they lastly acquired one, however Nichols nonetheless stands by the entire thing being a catastrophe.
A number of months in the past, Nichols ran into Hank Jr. and realized that the nation music legend had created slightly joke out of the disastrous occasion.
“A few months in the past, I did a present with him in South Carolina, and we caught up. He began speaking in regards to the Joe Nichols blind, and I’m like, ‘The what?’ He stated, ‘I by no means informed you I named that blind after you.’ I’m like, ‘You probably did what?’
He goes, ‘That was such a traumatic, humorous, superior story.’ As a result of he had far more story about it. He goes, ‘I had named that blind after you. After the catastrophe that was…’”
Nichols laughed it off, saying that having Hank Williams Jr. title a blind after him was an honor but so embarrassing. Hey, you win some, lose most…
What a narrative. Try the entire interview whilst you’re right here.
