
The following year, Williams released his next album Old School, New Rules on his independent label called Bocephus Records after his childhood nickname. Williams added some new lyrics, including "So Fox & Friends/Wanna put me down/Ask for my opinion/Then twist it all around." In the wake of this incident, he revised his song "Keep the Change" to address the issue. Williams appeared on FOX News' Fox & Friends and compared Obama to Adolf Hitler in his comments on the show. In 2011, Monday Night Football and Williams cut ties with each other after some remarks he made about President Barack Obama. That's all there ever was, the only option, from the beginning." "Other kids could play cowboys and Indians and imagine they'd grow up to be cowboys," he wrote on his website. His mother Audrey soon led him into becoming a country performer like his father. The son and namesake of country music pioneer Hank Williams, Williams was just three when his father died. Williams was born Randall Hank Williams on May 26, 1949, in Shreveport, Louisiana. In 2012, he released Old School New Rules.

He had several multi-platinum albums during his career. By the 1980s, Williams had become one of country music's top performers.

Williams was severely injured in a mountain-climbing accident in 1975. He spent two years recovering from his injuries.

In the 1970s, he created his own musical identity, combining country with Southern rock and blues. was performing his father, Hank Sr.'s, songs on stage at age 8. The son and namesake of country music pioneer Hank Williams, Hank Williams Jr.'s style combined country with Southern rock and blues.
