Not only was Hank Williams Sr. one of the best songwriters in music history, but he could write a tune that could break your heart.

Hear that lonesome whippoorwill
He sounds too blue to fly
The midnight train is whining low
I'm so lonesome, I could cry

I've never seen a night so long
And time goes crawling by
The moon just went behind the clouds
To hide its face and cry

Hiram King "Hank" Williams' story is as sad as his songs. The Lovesick Blues Boy from Butler County, Alabama, had a dozen #1 country hits and 55 singles that made it to the top 10.

Not too shabby for a skinny troubadour who would only live a few months after his 29th birthday. His legacy, however, lasts even through today, a day he would have turned 101 years old.

In death he was award Grammys, Country Music Awards and even a Pulitzer Prize.

But maybe the most tangible reflections of his influence are who still covers his songs and what his progeny have done with his strong genes.

Son, Hank Williams Jr.

After originally being dismissed as just a Hank Sr. impersonator through the early 1970s, in the '80s Bocephus (as his daddy called him) came into his own in a huge way.

From 1979-1992, Jr. released 18 gold studio albums which resulted in eight #1 country hits and 30 top 10 singles.

Monday Night Football had him sing variations of "All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight" as their theme song from 1989-2011, keeping him in front of some of the biggest TV audiences weekly.

But it was his digitally altered "duet" with his dad on the Grammy-winning "Tear in My Beer" which would bring him full circle with his famous father.

Daughter, Jett Williams

In between his two marriages, Hank Sr. fathered a daughter, Jett Williams. She was born just a few days after his untimely death.

She was adopted as a child and was unaware of either of her parents until the 1980s. In the mid-'80s the Alabama courts ruled she was indeed Hank's daughter and eligible to split his estate with Hank Jr. Bocephus didn't like that too much and took it all the way to the Supreme Court, but the ruling stuck.

Jett released several albums, but her style never raised any eyebrows.

Grandson, Hank III

Unlike his father who seemingly tried to hide the family resemblance with facial hair , Hank III looks like the spitting image of his clean shaven grandpa.

And he brings a firebrand punk rock mentality to his style, tone, and songwriting.

Hank III is so into the outlaw country / rebel mentality, his bass player has the Black Flag logo on his instrument minus one of the stripes.

Hank III is all the things we loved about his grandpappy and then some.

Granddaughter, Holly Audrey Williams

Holly is the daughter of Hank Jr., and she too received the musical genes of her father and granddad.

She's released three critically-acclaimed albums; opened for Jewel, Billy Bob Thornton, Train, Keith Urban and others; and has performed on all of the late-night talks shows. Mel Gibson had her cover her grandfather's spiritual gem, "How Can You Refuse Him Now" for Passion of the Christ (2004).

Great grandson, Hank IV

The government knows him as Coleman Emmett Williams but you can call him Four. If you get his autograph it might contain the Roman numeral: IV.

His daddy's Hank III, his granddaddy's Hank Jr., and Hank Sr. is the great grandpa.

No pressure.

His band is called IV and the Strange Band, something he formed in his 30s after being a junior high school teacher throughout his 20s.

After his debut, Son of Sin, Waylon Jennings' son, Shooter, produced their second album and both are dynamite.

“Coleman and I have a lot of mutual friends, and until now we’d never met before,” Shooter said in '22. “When one of those friends connected us and I had a chance to hear the music, I flipped out and became one of his biggest fans. I immediately saw the importance in his story and point of view, told in conjunction with a fresh take on where country music could go from here.”

IV is going on tour in November, mostly in the south, but a few shows in Pennsylvania. Get your tickets on his website.

Meanwhile his grandfather, Hank Jr., has two gigs in November. One at the Hondo Rodeo Festival in Arizona, and the other at the Pinnacle Bank Arena in Lincoln, Nebraska. Nab your tickets on his site.