Hank Williams, Jr. - Best Of - All My Rowdy Friends (2012)

Tracklist

01. Family Tradition
02. Whiskey Bent And Hell Bound
03. Women I've Never Had
04. Outlaw Women
05. Kaw-Liga
06. Old Habits
07. Dinosaur
08. The Blues Man
09. Texas Women
10. Dixie On My Mind
11. All My Rowdy Friends (Have Settled Down)
12. A Country Boy Can Survive
13. If Heaven Ain't A Lot Like Dixie
14. The Conversation
15. All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight
16. Country State Of Mind
17. Born To Boogie
18. If The South Woulda Won
19. There's A Tear In My Beer
20. Red, White & Pink Slip Blues
21. Bartender Song (Sittin' At A Bar)
22. All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over For Monday Night Football

Whether you’re an ardent fan or just looking for a good place to become acquainted with the outlaw twang-rock of Hank Williams Jr., this 2012 compilation is a must-have. It appropriately opens with “Family Tradition,” where Jr. stakes his claim in country while divorcing himself from his father's strict honky tonk traditions. Of course this could only be followed up with “Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound,” a slower tune that muses on hard drinking and fast living over twangy pedal steel notes, a rootsy fiddle solo, and some sharp Telecaster picking. You can hear some of that slick early-'80s production seeping in by “Old Habits,” where Jr.’s now-unvarnished voice provides a gritty contrast as he sings mournfully of the vices he had to give up in order to stay alive and healthy. In a haunting rendition of “There's a Tear in My Beer,” he duets with his late father via 1989 studio magic.

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