 Grammy award-winning country
singer/songwriter Hank Williams Jr. will
headline the fifth annual Music City New
Year’s Eve ‘Bash on Broadway’
event in downtown Nashville. A city that knows
how to throw a good party, Music City will once
again offer one of the biggest New Year’s
Eve celebrations in the country with multiple
days of free live music and Nashville’s own
midnight “Music Note Drop.”
“Football, football and Hank! All our rowdy
friends are staying over this year,” said
Butch Spyridon, president and CEO of the NCVC.
“This may be the best end-of-year
“mash-up” we have ever had with the
Titans, the SEC and Hank ringing in the New Year.
Are you ready?”
“This year is going to be very special on
New Year’s Eve,” says Hank Williams Jr.
“December 31st will mark the 60th
anniversary of daddy’s death. For years, I
have not performed on New Year’s Eve in
honor of my father, but this year is a monumental
year in the history of Hank Williams. If daddy
would have lived, he would have been 90 years old
this year. I hope Music City is ready to boogie
woogie, because Bocephus is going bring the party
to Nashville.”For the latest details about
talent and events, visit www.visitmusiccity.com/newyearseve.
Hank Williams Jr.
Though he began his career in the shadow of his
legendary father, Hank Williams Jr. emerged as a
formidable Country singer-songwriter in his own
right with 1960s hits such as “It’s All
Over But The Crying” and “Cajun
Baby.” But things changed with the 1979
release of “Family Tradition,” where he
broke the Nashville mainstream by adopting a
rebel image and writing/recording in a style
incorporating his Blues and Southern Rock
influences. The results were staggering as 42
Top-10 hits followed, two CMA Entertainer of the
Year honors, three ACM Entertainer of the Year
honors, multiple Grammy nominations and a Grammy
award for “There’s a Tear in My
Beer”, a duet with his father using
electronic merging technology.
As groundbreaking as Hank Williams Jr. became, it
wasn’t just his performance that people took
note about, but rather his songwriting that
became so notable. The driven musician penned
hits songs year after year scoring 20 BMI Awards.
One of the arguably most-heard Country song of
modern times, the four-time Emmy award-winning
“Are You Ready For Some Football?,”
which was heard nationally as the theme song of
ABC and ESPN’s Monday Night Football
telecasts, was aired for 21 years.
As the accolades kept coming, Williams sold over
55 million albums, achieving gold, platinum, and
multi-platinum status along with 13 of those
albums hitting the no. 1 spot on the Billboard
chart. In 2008, Williams was honored with the BMI
Icon award at the 56th annual BMI Country Awards,
joining an elite group of past honorees including
Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard and Dolly Parton.
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