Hank Williams, Jr. - Rich White Honky Blues (Explicit) (2022)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) 286 MB | Cover | 45:52 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 106 MB
Blues | Label: Easy Eye Sound
WEB FLAC (Tracks) 286 MB | Cover | 45:52 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 106 MB
Blues | Label: Easy Eye Sound
Produced by The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach and recorded over three days, Hank Williams Jr.'s 57th studio album is a set of mostly covers of songs by blues greats, backed up by a killer North Mississippi band: bassist Eric Deaton (who played with T-Model Ford on Fat Possum's Juke Joint Caravan), electric slide guitarist Kenny Brown (who R.L. Burnside called "my adopted son") and drummer Kinney Kimbrough (son of Junior Kimbrough), plus Auerbach. Williams has long flirted with what he calls "stripped-back blues," usually under the stage name Thunderhead Hawkins. Here, he sounds, at times, jubilantly playful—riffing and strutting like a Bantam rooster on Lightnin' Hopkins' "My Starter Won't Start" and getting deep into the rollicking, bottom-heavy grease of Burnside's "Georgia Women.