Strong Stuff

Reception

While he praised the closing cut ("In this stately ballad about a lover's struggle with drugs, Hank's baritone coos, breaks, and flutters like a wounded butterfly as spare accompaniment by piano, harmonica and guitar pushes but never intrudes"), Lee Ballinger of Record gave the album an overall negative review. He was especially critical of "A Whole Lot of Hank", describing it as "a recitation of unconnected cliches ... carried bumpily along by a plodding instrumental track". He found some of the other songs overly similar to "A Whole Lot of Hank", and referred to "Leave Them Boys Alone" as "the obligatory song about other Southern musicians".

Track listing

1. "Gonna Go Huntin' Tonight" (Hank Williams Jr.) – 2:36
2. "La Grange" (Frank Beard, Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill) – 5:21
3. "A Whole Lot of Hank" (Bill Emerson, Jody Emerson, Williams) – 2:55
4. "Made in the Shade" (Ronnie Van Zant) – 4:35
5. "Leave Them Boys Alone" (Dean Dillon, Gary Stewart, Tanya Tucker, Williams) – 3:36
6. with Waylon Jennings and Ernest Tubb
7. "The Girl on the Front Row at Fort Worth" (Williams) – 2:38
8. "The Homecoming Queen" (Williams) – 4:22
9. "Blue Jean Blues" (Beard, Gibbons, Hill) – 4:07
10. "Twodot Montana" (Williams) – 2:39
11. "In the Arms of Cocaine" (William Lee Golden, Buzz Rabin, Williams) – 4:08

Personnel