Hank Williams, Jr. often writes his songs when he’s out fishing or hunting because he says that’s usually where he spends his time anyway, so he writes wherever inspiration hits him.  “I’ve written ‘em in the deer stand, I’ve written them in the boat,” says Hank.  “Daddy wrote ‘Long Gone Lonesome Blues’ on Kentucky Lake in a boat.  I mean, that’s what we do.  ‘Country Boy Can Survive’ is a real song.  That’s where I live.  I don’t live in New York City.  I don’t live in Los Angeles and I never will.  I live out in the woods, you see (laughs).

Hank co-wrote his latest single, “The Party’s On,” with Tony Stampley and Joe Kent, although we don’t know if any of it was written in a deer stand or a boat.

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Hank Williams, Jr. – hunting and writing  :39

“Well, that’s where I write, cause that’s what I’m gonna be doing anyway.  And Minnie Pearl said my father, he’s in the dressing room and they said, ‘Oh, you’ve gotta get on, there’s ten thousand people’ and he’s telling me about his squirrel dogs and you’re in here and you’re telling me about your Civil War musket.  Good God, y’all are exactly alike.’  So yeah, that’s where I’m gonna do it.  I’m gonna write it wherever it comes.  I’ve written ‘em in the deer stand, I’ve written them in the boat.  Daddy wrote ‘Long Gone Lonesome Blues’ on Kentucky Lake in a boat.  I mean, that’s what we do.  ‘Country Boy Can Survive’ is a real song.  That’s where I live.  I don’t live in New York City.  I don’t live in Los Angeles and I never will.  I live out in the woods, you see (laughs).