Hank Williams Jr. Announces 2023 Tour Dates
It’s no longer Hank Williams Jr. to you, good sir. It’s Country Music Hall of Famer Hank Williams Jr., who will be taking his show out on tour in 2023 for select dates, and bringing Old Crow Medicine Show along with him.
Hank Jr. is not one for touring very much these days. He’d rather spend his time in a deer blind or out on a dock as opposed to doing just about anything else. But he’s always good for a couple of weeks of tour dates each year to keep the money rolling in, and to keep the fans happy. We already knew he was headlining Under The Big Sky Fest in his old haunt of Montana this mid July. But on Tuesday (1-10), he dropped a slew of new tour dates for the upcoming year.
You know we’ll get a rockin’ show from Rockin’ Randall Hank, but a question a few Hank Jr. fans will have is if he will showcase any of the blues material that he recorded with Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys on the 2022 album Rich White Honky Blues. Aside from a couple of secret shows he played at the American Legion Post 82 in Nashville, Hank Jr. did not tour behind the record at all.
We’ll have to see if a blues set makes its way into the mix, and the pairing with Old Crow Medicine Show makes for interesting conversation too.
Tickets go on sale Friday, January 13th via TicketBastard.
HANK WILLIAMS JR. 2023 TOUR DATES:
Fri May 12 – Tuscaloosa, AL – Tuscaloosa Amphitheater
Sat May 13 – Orange Beach, AL – The Amphitheater At The Wharf
Fri May 19 – Tampa, FL – Midflorida Credit Union Amphitheatre
Sat May 20 – Alpharetta, GA – Ameris Bank Amphitheatre
Fri Jun 9 – Cincinnati, OH – Riverbend Music Center
Sat Jun 10 – Burgettstown, PA (Pittsburgh)– The Pavilion at Star Lake
Fri Jun 16 – Maryland Heights, MO (St. Louis) – Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
Sat Jun 17 – Noblesville, IN (Indianapolis) – Ruoff Music Center
Fri Jul 7 – Ridgefield, WA (Portland) – RV Inn Style Resorts Amphitheater
Sat Jul 8 – Auburn, WA (Seattle) – White River Amphitheatre
Fri Jul 14 – Nampa, ID (Boise) – Ford Idaho Center Amphitheater
Fri Jul 21 – Irvine, CA – Fivepoint Amphitheatre
Sat Jul 22 – Murphys, CA – Ironstone Amphitheatre (Old Crow not appearing)
Fri Aug 25 – Bangor, ME – Maine Savings Amphitheatre
Sat Aug 26 – Gilford, NH – Bank Of New Hampshire Pavilion
Luckyoldsun
January 10, 2023 @ 7:43 pm
Hank Jr. evidently has an extremely diverse fan base–as in Irvine, Calif. to Bangor Maine!
Dave F
January 10, 2023 @ 11:38 pm
Yet there are no shows in the NYC area. That’s what stinks about being a country music fan living in central NJ.
Daniele
January 11, 2023 @ 1:42 am
Hey Dave, try being a country music fan in Italy.
Roger
January 11, 2023 @ 11:40 am
Or Sweden….
Patty
January 11, 2023 @ 5:09 pm
Lifelong Bocephus fan!! Favorite man ever!
De Jay Kirby 1-12 2023
January 12, 2023 @ 8:18 pm
I raised a lot of hell in the bars with Hank Jr in the background love and deep respect for the man
Millie Campbell
January 13, 2023 @ 5:53 am
Probably cause it’s a LIBERAL state! 🙄
Robert. Yarberry
January 12, 2023 @ 4:19 am
Why is Hank not comeing too little rock ark. I been too everyone of his shows that he has came too the rock I know we will all be highly disappointed if dose not make it please if I have miss understood please let me know
Strait86
January 11, 2023 @ 4:48 am
*Deer Creek lol
Barstool Hero
January 11, 2023 @ 5:02 am
Interesting choice for an opening act, too. I may have to get tickets for this one. I saw him years ago. He was wasted and entertaining in every way but musically. 🙂
Di Harris
January 11, 2023 @ 8:59 am
What’s wrong with Deer Creek?
Buffett gave a great concert there, on a gorgeous full moon, June evening.
We decided to introduce our 10 year old son to the “concert scene” that night.
Perfect night to be up on the lawn on a blanket. Kicked back, laughing and having a good time with neighboring concert goers.
Great venue.
And if Hank, Jr. decides to come to his job, totally trashed and being an ass, concert goers aren’t going to be hemmed in by 4 walls.
They can pick up their lawn party and hit the road.
Strait86
January 11, 2023 @ 12:25 pm
I love that venue. It will always be Deer Creek. Even though all the shows I saw there was when it was Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
Di Harris
January 11, 2023 @ 2:50 pm
“I love that venue.”
: D me too.
Strait86
January 11, 2023 @ 12:27 pm
If anyone hasn’t ever heard the infamous ‘trashed’ Hank Jr soundboard audio from the Kansas City show in the early 90’s, look it up. It’s on Youtube.
Noneya
January 11, 2023 @ 9:22 am
I’ve never had an opportunity to see Hank Jr live. So I always hope for a date in my area in Canada. He only comes here to hunt, I guess.
Noneya
January 11, 2023 @ 9:24 am
I’ve never had the opportunity to see Hank Jr live. He only comes to Canada to hunt, I guess.
Massatuckey
January 11, 2023 @ 10:11 am
Sweet, they should call it the crossing the aisle tour. Congress could take a few hints from this collaboration.
Arthur Crowton
January 11, 2023 @ 12:02 pm
Hank Jr what about Ft Lauderdale FL We Love here
My Po' 'Ol Feet's Needs a Rest
January 11, 2023 @ 12:56 pm
What, is Thunderbird Fistfucker too busy to open the shows? Nothing like a rich boomer blues singer to get the crowd pumped up!
Mars3
January 11, 2023 @ 1:31 pm
I hope I’m wrong, but at this stage of the game I’m guessing these performances will be sloppy, self indulgent and self aggrandizing. And if he hauls out the Thunderhead Hawkins schtick, lewd and rude as well. Nice poster, though.
Bibs
January 11, 2023 @ 5:24 pm
Saw him twice in the 90’s. Once he was great; the other time he was wasted, took off his shirt, and seemed to forget the words to a few songs. I no suppose you never know!
Woogeroo
January 13, 2023 @ 12:19 pm
well, I got my tickets from ticket bastard and I must say that entire experience sucked like a mouthful of dry sand on a hot day.
That is not on my list of things I ever want to do again, fees per ticket, then a processing charge on top of that… then… taxes too… no actual physical tickets, it has to be on my phone?
I use a pc and a browser almost every day of my life, that experience was not intuitive, kept telling me I was picking the wrong seats… but according to the chart and the colors, it was available…
So annoying… damn, I miss going to the record store and having them print out the tickets, I swear it would have taking me less time.
They really need to break that bastard into pieces. But yay, Hank Jr. tickets…
I. M. Brute
January 14, 2023 @ 6:41 am
Thirty years ago my kid sister’s date took her to a Hank Jr. concert. She told me that if it wasn’t for the fact that her date had paid for the tickets, she would have marched straight to the ticket window and demanded a refund! She said that apparently Hank Jr. was blitzed on something, rendering him incapable of doing anything other than sitting on a stool, head hung down, mumbling and giggling at his failed attempts to get very far into the songs he started. Is this any way to treat fans who’ve paid hard-earned money to come see you?
1991cool
January 15, 2023 @ 5:09 pm
I laugh at some of these comments. I have seen Hank Jr about 8 times and never seen him drunk or incapable of performing. Now I do know that he has had some bad shows and has put on some bad ones that are legendary, but most of his shows have been great. The people that say talent skips a generation are laughable. Hank Jr has wasted more talent than the other generations have. He can certainly be cocky and arrogant but at this point what should we expect. Just because he isn’t considered cool to some of the Americana crowd, who cares. Hank Jr is one of the best to ever do it. Period.
Stu
January 22, 2023 @ 1:55 pm
Third row tix center stage in NH. I’m sure we’ll be more wasted than Hank.