Hank Williams Jr. will return to Lincoln to play Pinnacle Bank Arena on Friday, one of two November stops on his tour that’s celebrating the 45th anniversary of “Family Traditions,” one of the biggest albums of his 60-year career.

And he’ll be back on the heels of his first hit in nearly a quarter-century, and the highest charting song of that career, “Finer Things,” his collaboration with Post Malone, the hip-hop/pop star who’s moved into country.

In August, “Finer Things” debuted at No. 42 on the Billboard Hot 100, eclipsing his previous top charter, his cover of his father’s “Long Gone Lonesome Blues,” which peaked at No. 67 back in 1964.

Born in 1949, Randall Hank Williams got the nickname Bocephus from his father Hank Williams, who died when young Hank was just 4 years old.

Hank Jr. made his first stage appearances at age 8 and began his recording career and provided the singing voice of his father in the 1964 film “Your Cheatin’ Heart.”

After a decade spent essentially impersonating his dad, Williams split from his mother, who had pushed him in that direction. In the mid-1970s, following a fall off a mountain that left his face disfigured, prompting him to grow a beard, don sunglasses and a cowboy hat — now his signature look — Williams made his popular breakthrough.

Adding elements of Southern rock to his country repertoire and lyrically embracing a rowdy, hell-raising persona, Williams became the biggest act in country, dominating the genre in the 1980s.

Between 1979 and 1992, Williams released 21 albums that were all certified at least gold and had a string of 30 country top 10 singles between 1979 and 1990, eight of them No. 1.

He won three straight Academy of Country Music entertainer of the year awards in the late 1980s and the Country Music Association’s entertainer of the year in 1988, the same year his platinum-selling “Born To Boogie” took the CMA album of the year prize.

Williams has sold more than 70 million copies of his 56 studio and 25 compilation albums, most recently releasing “Rich White Honky Blues,” a well-received collection of blues covers produced by The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach that topped the country, blues and Americana charts in 2022.

A hard-touring artist, Williams last performed in Lincoln in May 2018 at Pinewood Bowl. But he’s more than familiar with the Capital City.

“This isn’t my first rodeo in these parts,” he told the Pinewood audience. “I bought my first two jets in Lincoln, Nebraska, ladies and gentlemen.”

Paul Cauthen and Elvie Shane will open Friday’s 7 p.m. show. Tickets start at $45 and are available at ticketmaster.com, on the Ticketmaster app and at the arena ticket office before the show.