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Classic Album Review: Hank Williams Jr. | Stormy

Bocesphus makes it clear he spends more time writing titles than actual songs.

This came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):

 


Lord knows there’s no good reason to like Hank Williams Jr.

Not after listening to his umpteenth country-shlock outing Stormy, anyway. Not after hearing him proclaim that the tune I’d Like To Knock The Hell Out Of You is “The perfect country and western song.” And especially not after he follows it up with idiot-boy numbers like Naked Women And Beer and Hank Hill Is The King, two songs that make it painfully clear Bocephus spends more time thinking up titles than he does writing melodies for them. But no matter how banal he gets, li’l Hank is so unabashadly redneck, so doggoned happy to be life of the trailer-park party, it’s hard not to shake your head and smile at the big harmless lug. Especially when he whoop-whoop-whoops like Curley Stooge.