Wild Streak

Performer: Hank Williams, Jr.
Artist: Gary Rossington; John Jarvis; Billy Joe Walker, Jr.
Engineer: Scott Hendricks; Chris Hammond
Distributor: (Independently by Label)

Notes: Personnel includes: Hank Williams Jr. (vocals, guitar); Billy Joe Walker Jr. (acoustic & electric guitars); Dino Bradley (acoustic guitar); Wayne Turner, Reggie Young, Gary Rossington (guitar); Eddie Long (steel guitar); Mark O'Connor (fiddle); John Jarvis, Barry Becket, Billy Earheart (keyboards, synthesizers); Michael Rhodes, Ray Barrickman (bass); Matt Betton, Bill Marshall (drums). Producers: Hank Williams Jr., Jim Ed Norman, Barry Beckett. Recorded at Emerald Sound Studios, Nashville, Tennessee. This is Volume 16 of Curb's Bocephus series. WILD STREAK seems to be Hank Williams Jr.'s conscious attempt at crossing over to a wider audience. This is straight-ahead Southern redneck rock with nary a hint of Nashville, though Williams' good ole' boy anthem "If the South Woulda Won" makes the somewhat puzzling suggestion that the day Patsy Cline died should be a national holiday. Highlights include an ode to phone sex ("Social Call") and a bombastic cover of Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Tuesday's Gone" featuring Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington as guest soloist. NRBQ guitarist Al Anderson's "You're Gonna Be a Sorry Man" is harmonically sophisticated, while Tony Joe White's "Love M.D." is characteristically swampy.

Hank Williams Jr. spent years trying to duplicate his famous father's sound. But his greatest success came when he shook off that weighty mantle. Williams's new sound integrated country and southern rock, a formula that made him one of country's biggest stars of the 1980s. Down the line, he proved to be influential to a new generation of rebels like Kid Rock and Uncle Kracker.

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