Hank Williams Jr. once declared that all his rowdy friends had settled down, but Bocephus rallied the troops for select winter and spring dates on his Rowdy Friends Tour 2010. Hank Jr. handpicked some of the liveliest traditional-tinged country music acts in the industry for sporadic dates on an anything-goes nationwide tour, and Hank’s ‘rowdy friends’ made a splash in country music’s hometown of Nashville in late April at the Bridgestone Arena (formerly the Sommet Center).

Collecting all the best music acts in the biz, Hank Jr. plucked brilliant bluegrass act the Grascals, newcomer Eric Church and prolific songwriter Jamey Johnson to accompany him on the current Rowdy Friends Tour. Hank Williams Jr. and Co. rocked and rolled at downtown Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena cialis cheap on April 23, where they brought down the house in Music City.

Country music fans with Hank Williams Jr. tickets to the Nashville gig were entertained from the very start of the show as opening act the Grascals took the stage on April 23 at Bridgestone Arena. The bluegrass superstars fiddled their way through renditions of Merle Haggard’s “Today I Started Loving You Again” and other Southern-fried party-starting anthems before leading into Eric Church’s 40-minute set, and the “Guys Like Me” vocalist got the Music City crowd on their feet with raucous numbers like “‘Lotta Boot Left to Fill.”

Getting into the meat and potatoes of the evening, traditional country newcomer Jamey Johnson next illuminated the stage at Bridgestone Arena with his unwavering vocals and memorable tunes, pounding out hits like “High Cost of Living” and “In Color” and also covering George Strait’s “Give It Away” and Waylon Jennings’ “Mental Revenge.” After an already star-studded rotating cast led the way, Hank Williams Jr. finally provided the headlining act for the evening, commanding the crowd’s attention from the get-go with his smash single “Rockin’ Randall.”

Bocephus didn’t let his dedicated fans down as he roared through traditional country hits like “Family Tradition,” “If Heaven Ain’t a Lot Like Dixie,” “All My Rowdy Friends Have Settled Down” and “There’s a Tear in My Beer.” He didn’t skip a note as he satiated country music fans’ appetites for some of that classic outlaw country music that’s been missing in Nashville ever since the newest crop of contemporary country talent (ahem, Taylor Swift) stepped into the spotlight.

Though he only performs a handful of shows each year and is as picky as they come when selecting opening acts for concerts, the name Hank Williams Jr. alone is enough to sell out arenas across the South in a heartbeat. Hank Jr. summed up his impressive fan base at his recent concert in Nashville when (according to The Boot) he said, “You know, I’ve got some of the best fans in the world. I only do about 20 dates a year, and I can take a year off and when I come back, they’re right there with me. I think you’re the most loyal fans in the world.”

And of course, the most loyal of Hank’s fans reside in Nashville, the heart of country music and the place where the country music icon spent a significant amount of time in his youth. Growing up the son of traditional country legend Hank Williams, Hank Jr. grew up in the spotlight from the very beginning. Junior joined in the “family tradition” of Music City’s booming industry as an adolescent, gravitating toward honky tonks in the late ’60s.

Hank Williams Jr. performed alongside a crop of country music outlaws that included from the very beginning heavyweights like Charlie Daniels, Waylon Jennings, David Allan Coe and Willie Nelson, punching out some of the most brilliant traditional country music tunes of the day when the rebel-rousing artists weren’t being shunned from Nashville’s music scene for their drug and alcohol-induced extracurricular activities.

Not coasting off his father’s fame for long (see: “Family Tradition,”) Hank Williams Jr. quickly carved his own niche in the country music industry in the late ’60s, notching his very first No. 1 charting single in 1970 with “All for the Love of Sunshine.” After this, the hits seemed to flow out of Hank Jr.’s guitar as fast and as effortlessly as his finger picking skills, and the country music megastar hit the jackpot in the ’80s as he churned out chart-toppers like “Dixie on My Mind,” “Texas Women,” “Honky Tonkin’,” “Ain’t Misbehavin'” and many, many more.

Still a sell-out act on the touring circuit, Hank Williams Jr. has accrued perhaps the most dedicated fan base of any artist currently in the country music industry. Bocephus continues to tour the nation – if only sporadically – year after year, and his current Rowdy Friends Tour is one hot ticket on the concert scene, selling scores of tickets online.

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