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Hank Williams Jr. and Friends

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Released
  
December 1975

Length
  
32:10

Release date
  
December 1975

Label
  
MGM Records

Recorded
  
February–July 1975

Artist
  
Hank Williams Jr.

Producer
  
Dick Glasser

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Genres
  
Country music, Outlaw country, Country rock

Similar
  
Hank Williams Jr albums, Country music albums

Hank Williams Jr. & Friends is a 1975 album by Hank Williams Jr. It is Williams' breakthrough album, featuring a transition toward country rock and William's own unique style as opposed to imitating his father's. The album was issued by MGM Records as number M3G5009 and was later reissued by Polydor Records as number 831 575-4 Y-1. The album was also reissued on CD in 2000 by Mercury Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc. Allmusic editor Thom Jurek cites Hank Williams Jr. & Friends as "one of the best country-rock albums ever made and stands with the best of the outlaw recordings of the era."

Contents

Production

According to Hank's autobiography, Living Proof, the album was recorded in Muscle Shoals, Alabama at Music Mill Studios between February and July 1975. The album insert says that this was recorded at Capricorn Studios in Macon, Georgia.

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's 2000 Mercury Records reissue liner notes.

  • Hank Williams Jr – lead vocals
  • Jerry Wallace – acoustic guitar
  • Gary Boggs – steel guitar
  • Pete Carr – lead guitar
  • Lenny LeBlanc – bass
  • Roger Clark – drums
  • Ronnie Oldham – piano, keyboards
  • Ken Bell – acoustic guitar
  • Dick Overby – steel guitar
  • Charlie Daniels – fiddle on "Losin' You"
  • Toy Caldwell – steel guitar on "Montana Song" and "Can't You See"
  • Chuck Leavell – organ on "On Susan's Floor"
  • Harmony vocalists – Sue Richards, Dick Glasser, Ava Aldridge, Jim Glaser, Eddie Struzick, George Soule, Lenny LeBlanc
  • Songs

    1Losin' You3:42
    2On Susan's Floor3:22
    3I Really Did2:42

    References

    Hank Williams Jr. and Friends Wikipedia