Still So Lonesome I Could Cry Trivia Quiz

Answer: Family Tradition

The song was released in 1978 on the "Family Tradition" album. It made it to number four on the Billboard charts.
"Hank why do you drink?
Why do you roll smoke?
Why must you live out the songs that you wrote?"

Answer: The Kentucky Headhunters

The Kentucky Headhunters might possibly be more well known for their covers of songs like "Oh Lonesome Me" which charted at number eight, "Skip a Rope", "Walk Softly on This Heart of Mine", and Hank Williams' "Take These Chains From My Heart". The Academy of Country Music made them the Top New Group in 1989 and they won a Grammy for Best Country Performance by a Group in 1990 for "Pickin' on Nashville".

"I checked my rearview mirror, looked into his eyes.
I saw the light.
It was the ghost of Hank Williams, pickin' and a-grinnin'.
He gave me some good advice.

He told me every mother's daughter
needs a stone back man
to make the records jump off the wall."

Answer: Midnight in Montgomery

Hank Williams Sr. was born in Mount Olive, Alabama but he grew up in Montgomery. The song talks about meeting his ghost on New Year's. Hank died on New Years Day. It also makes reference to the first line of Williams' "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry". The song made it to number three on the Billboard charts.

"Cause when the wind is right
you'll hear his songs
smell whiskey in the air.
Midnight in Montgomery,
he's always singing there."

Answer: Time Marches On

"Sister cries out, from her baby bed.
Brother runs in with feathers on his head.
Mama's in her room learnin how to sew.
Daddy's drinkin beer listening to the radio.
Hank Williams sings Kaw-Liga and Dear John.
Time marches on, time marches on."

In verse two, "Bob Dylan sings like a rolling stone" and in the last verse "daddy's in the ground beneath the maple tree while the angels sing an old Hank Williams song."

Lawrence might be the most underrated star out there. To date he has had eight number one hits including "Sticks and Stones", "Can't Break it to My Heart", "Alibis", "My Second Home" and "Find Out Who Your Friends Are".

Answer: Johnny Cash

"The Highwaymen" were Cash, Jennings, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristopherson. All four preferred to operate outside the mainstream of Country music. Country music recording executives seemed to prefer they do that as well as the stars had specific ideas on how they wanted their music produced. They produced three albums together: "Highwayman", "Highwayman 2", and "The Road Goes on Forever". "Highwayman" peaked at number one on the Billboard Country album charts. "Highwayman 2" made it to number four while "The Road Goes On Forever" only made it to forty-two.

"While Hank signed his autograph on Beaulah Rice`s fan
Mavis got acquainted with the Driftin` Cowboys Band.
The effect on all our lives was quite profound
on the night Hank Williams came to town."

Answer: This Old Guitar

Neil owns a Martin D-28 acoustic guitar that used to belong to Hank Williams Sr. As reported on the Song Facts Forums website (http://forum.songfacts.com), Young feels this way about old guitars, especially Williams' old Martin: "It's always great when someone understands what this is that they're holding, who understands the effect Hank Williams had on all of us.

They are sort of awestruck by being in the presence of anything that he touched---to the point that to actually play his instrument elevates them to another level.

It's a wonderful thing to have a guitar for that reason. A lot of people who should have played it, have played it. I'm careful about it, but I use it all the time. It's not on a wall in a museum."

Answer: Waylon Jennings

The song is "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way?" Jennings wrote it lamenting the watered-down and commercialized state of Country music in the mid-1970s. It reached number one for a very short period of time in 1975.
My favorite line from the song:
"I've seen the world with a five piece band,
looking at the backside of me."

Answer: Hank Williams You Wrote My Life

Bandy sang a lot of songs about drinking, cheating, honky tonks and rodeos. "Hank Williams You Wrote My Life" went to number two on the Billboard charts. He also reached number two with "It's a Cheating Situation", a song he sang with Janie Fricke. His sole number one hit was 1979's "I Cheated Me Right Out of You".

"You wrote Your Cheatin' Heart about
A gal like my first wife.
You Moan The Blues for me and for you
Hank Williams, You Wrote My Life.

The Cold, Cold Heart and a doubtful mind
I have known a few myself.
And the gal that loved me Half As Much
As she loved somebody else.

I've heard that blue old whipporwill, too
and the Lonesome Whistle whine.
I know that feel; so cold, so real
When The Blues Come Around at midnight.

We've never met, I know and yet
I know you well, My Friend.
And if ever I, get to heaven on high
I hope you'll shake my hand."

Answer: Hank Williams Jr.

Hank Williams Jr. is, of course, the son of Hank Williams Sr. His mother was Audrey Williams. Jett Williams is the daughter of Hank Williams Sr. through Bobbie Jett and is a singer. Shooter Jennings is the son of Waylon Jennings. He also is a Country singer. I don't believe Buck Owens is related to anyone else in this question.

"Well back then they called him crazy
now a days they call him a saint.
Most folks don't know that they
fired him from the Opry,
and that caused his greatest pain."

Answer: Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes

Among those mentioned in the lyrics are:
"the outlaw that walks through Jesse's dream" (Waylon Jennings)
"red-headed stranger" (Willie Nelson)
"man in black and Folsom Prison Blues" (Johnny Cash)
"the Okie from Muskogee" (Merle Haggard)
"or Hello, Darlin'" (Conway Twitty)
"you know the heart of Dixie still beats, in old Luke the Drifter" (Hank Williams)
"old Marty, Hank and Lefty" (Marty Robbins, Hank Snow, Lefty Frizzell)