Following It’s About Time, Williams has released several compilations, including All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over: Great Tailgating Songs, A Country Boy Can Survive (Box Set), Hank Jr. 2016’s It’s About Time (Nash Icon Records) included the history-making “Are You Ready for the Country,” as well as tunes “Dress Like an Icon,” “Just Call Me Hank,” “It’s About Time” and “The Party’s On” in addition to re-recorded versions of classics “Mental Revenge” and “Born to Boogie” with Brantley Gilbert, Justin Moore and Brad Paisley on guitar. ![]() Williams’ extremely impressive resume has spawned 70 million albums sold worldwide, six PLATINUM albums, 20 GOLD albums, 13 No. Over the course of just three days, Rich White Honky Blues was done, with Williams punctually declaring “I hope you got all of that. Before too long, the man whose alter-ego is Thunderhead Hawkins emerged, curious and hungry. Undaunted, the producer had the band start playing grindhouse blues, sweltering hill country shuffles, juke joint altar calls. ![]() “First thing he said to me when he walked in was, ‘I don’t really feel like fucking with this shit!’,” Auerbach recalls. stationery, each with the title of a song he wanted to sing. But then Auerbach started receiving text messages the week leading up to the dates: pictures of Hank Williams, Jr. It started with a phone call, discussing what these sessions could be. So, I tried to assemble the right parts to just sit in that piece of who he is.” records, and those things came through so clearly watching him. on TV, I was a kid raised on Robert Johnson and Hank Williams, Sr. “If you wanted to play this kind of music, you couldn’t have better players,” Auerbach explains. Burnside, bassist Eric Deaton, who first toured with Fat Possum’s Juke Joint Caravan, backing up T-Model Ford and Paul “Wine” Jones, plus drummer Kinney Kimbrough, son of North Mississippi blues legend Junior Kimbrough, they tapped into the lifeblood of the blues at its most randy. Assembling a wicked core band of electric slide guitarist Kenny Brown, claimed as “my adopted son” by R.L. Hank Williams Jr.īlame it on the owner of Easy Eye Sound. But I finally made an album that’s just that, and I like it. I’ve always flirted with this stripped back blues – all the way back to the ‘80s. It’s the start of everything musical in my family everything starts with Tee-Tot and flows from there. Burnside, Muddy Waters, Big Joe Turner and a few from Bocephus himself. ![]() GRAMMY-winning Producer of the Year Dan Auerbach recorded the set live, with a dozen songs reprising classics from Robert Johnson, Lightnin’ Hopkins, R.L. ![]() With Rich White Honky Blues – set for release on June 17 – the second-generation Country Music Hall of Famer makes good on his legacy with a turpentine and rough wood take on the hill country blues that informed his father’s raw-boned style of putting his pain out there. Pure, unqualified and unadulterated, the only son of Hank Williams has the same down low lonesome in his veins as the man Rufus “Tee-Tot” Payne taught to play guitar as a small child growing up in Greenville, Alabama. But more than the swaggering singles, roughneck fantasy videos or relentless sense of blue-collar boogie, at his core, the 72-year-old legend is a bluesman. Larger than life, capable of summoning “all his rowdy friends” with a couple crashing downbeats and a blaring guitar riff, Hank Williams, Jr. has been one of country music’s truest outlaws for over half a century.
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