Word: songs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...since his late teens, but only with the Friends album has he been able to break out of the pattern of bland and banal country tunes that marked his previous albums. Still, he is haunted by comparisons with a ghost he must feel hovers at his shoulder. The best song on Friends is "Living Proof," a testament to what it means to be the son of Hank Williams...
...same eeriness pervades "Montana Song," in which Williams longs to make love to a lady on the Great Divide. He fights down an urge to call her, and ends the song hoping that he can find another woman to "help me sing my Montana song...
...five Williams songs on side two are the strongest part of the album. Sandwiched between "Montana Song" and "Living Proof" are "Clovis, New Mexico," an adventure song about two drifters, and "Brothers of the Road," an up-tempo song about staying out on two-month tours...
...overall tone of the album is near despair, and its saddest song is "Stoned at the Jukebox." When Williams sings of "loving that hurtin' music, 'cause I been hurting too," it seems to come from the heart-wrenching realization that Hank Williams, Jr. can never be entirely accepted for his own music, no matter how good that music...
WILLIAMS IS ON less solid ground when he does other people's songs on side one. "Losing You," with Pete Carr's pulsating electric guitar and Charlie Caniel's soaring fiddle, is very fine musically, but the mood of this basically sad song is spoiled by the uptempo beat they provide. "On Susan's Floor" is a pleasant ballad, which seems out of place on this album. The best song on the side is again one of Williams's own, "(Baby I Loved You) I Really Did," which details a break-up as bitter as it is timely...