WAYLON DIED IN 2002. 5 YEARS LATER, HIS SON SHOOTER PICKED UP THE MICROPHONE AND ASKED THE SAME QUESTIONS HIS FATHER ONCE ASKED HANK JR. October 2007. Gibson Amphitheatre, Los Angeles. CMT Giants was honoring Hank Williams Jr. Kid Rock, Toby Keith, Steven Tyler, Alan Jackson — all of them showed up. But the moment no one expected came from two kids. Shooter Jennings and Holly Williams walked on stage together. Waylon’s son and Hank’s daughter. They sang “The Conversation” — the same duet their fathers recorded in 1979. Shooter took Waylon’s part. Holly took her daddy’s lines. The song was always about Hank Sr. — the legacy, the heartbreak, the people who called him crazy then turned around and called him a saint. But Waylon had been gone for 5 years by then. And here was his boy, standing where his father once stood, asking those same questions about a man he never really knew. Hank Jr. sat on a sofa right in front of the stage. Watching his own story sung back to him by the next generation.
When Shooter Jennings Sang the Questions Waylon Once Asked In October 2007, the Gibson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles was packed…