Which country legend wrote the song “Family Tradition”?

Hank Williams Jr. wrote the country song “Family Tradition.”

Released in 1978, “Family Tradition” became one of Williams’s signature songs. It appeared on his album Family Tradition and was issued as a single by Elektra/Curb. The song reached No. 4 on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles chart, establishing it as a major hit during the period when Williams was developing his own musical identity.

The lyrics address Williams’s famous family background and the public’s interest in his drinking, songwriting, and rebellious image. His father, Hank Williams, was one of country music’s most influential singers and songwriters, but the younger Williams built a distinct style that blended traditional country with Southern rock and outlaw-country attitudes.

The title can cause confusion because Hank Williams Jr. is not the writer of his father’s songs, and “Family Tradition” is not a Hank Williams recording. It is specifically a self-written Hank Williams Jr. hit from the late 1970s.