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    • Nov 5, 1968
    Hank Williams Jr. records "Custody" in Nashville using the alias Luke The Drifter Jr.
    Dec 4, 1968
    Hank Williams Jr. records "Cajun Baby" in Nashville. The song represents a collaboration between Bocephus and his father, Hank Williams, who had never finished writing it. Junior completed the composition before recording it
    May 4, 1969
    Johnny Cash and Hank Williams Jr. gross $93,000, drawing 23,000 ticket-buyers for two shows at Detroit's Cobo Arena. It is recognized as the highest gross in history for a country show in one day at the time
    Jun 11, 1969
    Hank Williams Jr. gains his first RIAA-certified gold album, for the soundtrack to the Hank Williams biopic "Your Cheatin' Heart"
    Jul 5, 1969
    Hank Williams Jr. tops the Billboard country albums chart for the first time with "Songs My Father Left Me"
    Jul 31, 1969
    "There's a saucy delight in every bite": Hank Williams Jr.'s Barbecue Pit opens at 990 Murfreesboro Pike in Nashville. Bocephus greets patrons the first day. A barbecue sandwich is 50 cents, a soda costs 15 cents
    Sep 25, 1969
    A ribbon-cutting ceremony is held at Hank Williams Jr.'s Barbecue Pit at 115 Opry Place in downtown Nashville. It's Bocephus' second Pit, following on the heels of a restaurant at 990 Murfreesboro Road
    Sep 30, 1969
    Hank Williams Jr. makes his first attempt at recording "I Walked Out On Heaven" in Nashville
    Dec 31, 1969
    Happy new year from the cornfield! "Hee Haw" welcomes musical guests Dottie West and Hank Williams Jr. alongside the CBS show's cast regulars Buck Owens, Stringbean, Junior Samples, Grandpa Jones and Roy Clark, who sings "Yesterday, When I Was Young"
    Jan 13, 1970
    Four months after he first attempted it, Hank Williams Jr. records the hit version of "I Walked Out On Heaven" in Nashville
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