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Released
  
September 1965

Artist
  
Hank Williams Jr.

Producer
  
Jim Vienneau

Genre
  
Country music

Ballads of the Hills and Plains (1965)
  
Blues My Name (1966)

Release date
  
September 1965

Label
  
MGM Records

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Recorded
  
July 1965; Columbia Recording Studios, Nashville

Father & Son (1965)
  
Ballads of the Hills and Plains (1965)

Similar
  
Hank Williams Jr albums, Country music albums

Ballads of the Hills and Plains is an album by American country music singer and songwriter Hank Williams Jr. The album was issued by MGM Records as number E/SE 4316.

Contents

Side one

  1. "The River" (Cliff Friend, Jack Sanders, Mack Vickery) – 2:53
  2. "Doc Holiday" (John Paulovic) – 2:09
  3. "Cowpoke" (Tillman Franks, David Houston) – 2:06
  4. "Blood's Thicker Than Water" (Danny Dill, Wayne P. Walker) – 2:32
  5. "The Blizzard" (Harlan Howard) – 3:24
  6. "Stampede" (Jim Dale, Frances Paulin) – 2:40

Side two

  1. "The Rainmaker" (Cliff Friend, Jack Sanders, Mack Vickery) – 2:34
  2. "Streets of Laredo" (Traditional) – 4:04
  3. "Black Lightning" (Ricky Hester) – 2:56
  4. "Big Twenty" (Dillis) – 2:00
  5. "The Eyes of Death" (Danny Dill) – 2:42
  6. "I'm Afraid" (Allen Nelson, Carolyn Stringer) – 2:17

Personnel

  • Hank Williams Jr. – guitar, vocals

    • Hank Williams Jr. & the Cheatin' Hearts

  • Grady Martin, Jerry Kennedy, Harold Bradley, Ray Edenton – guitar
  • Bob Moore – bass
  • Hargus "Pig" Robbins – piano
  • The Jordanaires – vocal accompaniment

    • Songs

    1The River2:55
    2Doc Holiday2:08
    3Cowpoke2:06

    References

    Ballads of the Hills and Plains Wikipedia
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