Word: hanke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Marquette coach Hank Raymonds was slapped with a technical for his protest of the call, and Miami hit on three of the four free throws assessed on the play...
...South is the curious product of three men--in the background is Hank Williams, of course, and he casts a long shadow, as when Hank Jr. sings, in "Feelin' Better," the first and best...
...person who makes those curious, almost nonsensical lyrics work with his eerie back-up vocals is Waylon Jennings, almost as if Hank Sr. himself was back there howling into the 24-track tape machine. Jennings also produced this album, and to him must be given credit for the lean, Austin-like sound--this is the first Hank Jr. album in which he has gotten away from Nashville's slick guitar tracks and banks of strings that work for the Ronny Milsaps of the world. Waylon's bit in all this is interesting--he has an ego you could stretch from...
...Been eatin' that cornbread, lovin' on a featherbed, smokin' that homegrown, do it on my own--this here music from now on gone be nothin' but homegrown." That's the refrain that runs through The New South: Hank Jr. has assumed his place as the best vocalist in country music, better even than Waylon himself. If you like Hank Williams, check out Hank Jr., or "Bocephus" as he calls himself. He's got the same lonesome blood in his veins...
Waylon and Willie complement each other perfectly, trading lines and singing around each other. The back-up musicians are adequate, but those two voices are what makes the album. Waylon, Willie and Hank Jr. are like having three Cadillacs in a Muscle Shoals garage...