Junior can't sing for shiite, true, but he does OK with what he's got. (On Star Search or American Idol, he'd get dumped, fer shore!) Did you know that he actually recorded post-mortem duets with his father as a teenager sometime in the 1960s, on MGM Records, long before Natalie Cole did her necrophilia number with Nat King?
Didn't know that...but interesting.
Before the Monday Night Football thing, I had a very negative impression of him (not being a country fan, the sunglasses, whatever).
Then he started the MNF songs before the game, and I found myself looking forward to seeing him.
Later, I learned that he had some sort of disfiguring accident, and that is why he wears the sunglasses.
Now, seeing the picture without the shades, I think he doesn't look that bad and think he should drop the shades and some of the attitude and just be a guitar playing country dude. I'd have a little more respect for him.
I think this because of one of my co-workers who got Bell's Palsy six months ago. One side of his face has no feeling or movement. He missed one day of work for a doctor's appointment, tnen came in as normal ever since, handling the diversity like a champ. I have a lot of respect for the way he's handled his affliction. I wish Hank Jr. would have done the same.
Most of our outstanding, near legendary, artists would get dumped from those trite and superficial little contests like American Idol. Even making the comparison seems silly to me.