Country star Hank Williams Jr. will play the Minnesota State Fair Grandstand for the third time on Aug. 27.
Tickets are priced from $56 to $125.75 and go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday through Etix or by calling 800-514-3849. Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives are also on the bill.
The son of country legend Hank Williams, he began performing at an early age. He made his first television appearance in 1963 at the age of 14, singing several of his dad’s songs on “The Ed Sullivan Show.” Williams was highly influenced by his father’s friends, including Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, Fats Domino, Earl Scruggs, Lightnin’ Hopkins and Jerry Lee Lewis.
Williams released his debut album, “Hank Williams Jr. Sings the Songs of Hank Williams,” in 1964, when he was 15. He continued to sing covers until the mid-’70s when he began carving out his own sound in Southern rock and outlaw country.
His landmark 1975 release “Hank Williams Jr. and Friends” saw him drawing influence from Waylon Jennings, Toy Caldwell and Charlie Daniels.
Among the more than 100 singles he’s issued over the decades, “Family Tradition,” “Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound,” “All My Rowdy Friends (Have Settled Down),” “All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight,” and “Born to Boogie” stand among his biggest hits.
Williams first played the Grandstand in 1968 on a bill with Marty Robbins, Sonny James and Connie Smith. He returned as a headliner in 1983 with Aaron Tippin.
The Minnesota State Fair runs from Aug. 21 through Sept. 1. Williams joins the previously announced headliners Old Dominion on Aug. 21, Meghan Trainor on Aug. 22, Atmosphere on Aug. 23, the joint bill of Melissa Etheridge and Indigo Girls on Aug. 24, the Happy Together Tour on Aug. 25, Def Leppard on Aug. 26, the Steve Miller Band on Aug. 28 and the Avett Brothers on Aug. 29.
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