Hank Williams Jr Music:

American Legends: The Best of the Early Years Track Listing:
1. Cajun Baby
2. Rainin' in My Heart
3. Standing in the Shadows
4. It's All over But the Crying
5. I'd Rather Be Gone
6. Living Proof
7. Ain't That a Shame
8. Hank
9. Last Love Song [*]
10. Rainy Night in Georgia [*]
11. I've Got a Right to Cry [*]

American Legends: The Best of the Early Years Reviews:
If you like Hank you need to listen to this!
2003-02-16 - I just got this CD and it's great! Hank Jr.'s older stuff is even better than his new stuff though I love it all. This album reminds me a lot "Hank Williams Jr and Friends" from 1975. In fact Living Proof is on both. I think this stuff is a little bit older maybe late 60's early 70's. The best tracks are "Cajun Baby" "Standing In the Shadows" "Hank" and "I'd Rather Be Gone" and don't forget "Living Proof" I you like tradional country, like the kind from the good ol days I'd reccomend this CD. Lot's of steel and Hank's voice is so strong! Check out Hank Jr. and Friends too, before the record companies decide to take these great albums off the shelves and they become out of print!

Its A great album one of my favorites by Hank Jr
2003-01-06 - ...Hank Williams Jr is a legend and the song ...called Standing in the Shadows [is] a good song. ... Hank Williams Sr would be proud of his son. You will get your money's worth when you buy this cd its when Jr was young before the beard and before he fell off a 500ft cliff. again this is a great cd. ...

Platitudinous hogwash shamelessly trading on father's name
2002-07-15 - Now, I am no great expert of Country & Western music, but I know what I like - and equally, I know horse manure when I hear it.

This, make no mistake, is horse manure. Everything corny, hayseed-esque, bumpkinious and brainless - everything which gives this venerable strain in the tradition of honest working class folk music its un-deserved place as the butt of the town sophisticate's jokes - is bundled up right here in this thoroughly horrible collection.

Lest you should make the same mistake I did, BE WARNED: the creator of this record is NOT the late, inestimably great, Hank Williams Senior. He sure wishes he was (he doesn't so much admit it as labour the point) but he's not. This is the dumb-arsed SON of an American Legend. An American Legend himself, he most surely ain't. NO SIR-EEEE.

The cheek of Polygram to market this title under the title "American Legend" is astounding; only matched by the gall, horror, and humiliation I experienced when I discovered I'd been conned into buying it so easily.

How bad is it? This bad:

For musical accompaniment, imagine the hyper-cliched cowboy ridin' along after a hard day's lassoin', lookin' forward to his grits by the campfire, clippety clop sort of beat (like a poor imitation of Hank Williams Sr, really), while a rich, cowpoke barritone intones these words:

"As I travel around from town to town
I have a lot of Dad's fans and friends come around
They say, 'I know Hank would be proud of you, if he was here today,
That you're carrying on his music this way
Yes, they say Hank was the all time great
And we know that you'll just be as good as your Dad',
But i just smile and say,
'There'll never be another Hank Williams, friends,'
And that's the part that makes them sad."

Pass me a bucket.