Hank Williams Jr Music:

The Pressure Is On Track Listing:
1. Country Boy Can Survive
2. Coalition to Ban Coalitions
3. Tennessee Stud
4. Ramblin' in My Shoes
5. Pressure Is On
6. All My Rowdy Friends (Have Settled Down)
7. I Don't Care (If Tomorrow Never Comes)
8. Weatherman
9. Everytime I Hear That Song
10. Ballad of Hank Williams

The Pressure Is On Reviews:
Too Many Highs,Too Many Lows..
2009-12-03 - The pressure is on when you have a 120 ton freight train on your tail,cool album cover with Hank singing all the way down the railroad line, if you don't like this album you don't like Hank Williams Jr. - "A Country Boy Can Survive" is the prime intro,"Tennessee Stud" is a rock version of a Doc Watson standard,"I Don't Care If Tommorrow Never Comes" is the only recording of Hank and George Jones on a duet,"The Pressure Is On","Mr Weatherman",Jr. is pouring out the blues,"Ramblin' In My Shoes" is Boxcar Willie and Hank with Boxcar's train whistle impression,nobody could sound off a train whistle like Boxcar Willie, "All My Rowdy Friends(Have Settled Down)" tells the story of some old friends and highwaymen. "Ballad Of Hank" features Hank Sr.'s late steel player Don Helms,Hank Jr. recently wrote "The Last Driftin' Cowboy" as a tribute to Helms featured on Hank's new 2009 album "127 Rose Avenue",his best recording in over twenty years. The Pressure Is On,1981, Hank Williams Jr. is on top of his game,Bocephus country.

Memories...
2008-11-11 - I find it incredibly ironic that many other reviewers state how their father turned them onto this album (Hank Jr.'s best in my opinion), as my first memory of hearing it is with my own father. It was a rainy day in Georgia that I'll never forget-the music seemed to quietly reflect the weather (and was enhanced by it). My favorite is no doubt the hard-to-find version of "Tennessee Stud". I love the mournful song that shares it's title with the album, "The Pressure Is On" and "Mr. Weatherman" has a permanent place in my heart. I'm about to order this, as I've lost my copy and need to hear some *good* country music. Great album for any Hank Jr. fan.

country fan
2006-03-26 - after listening to this selection of hank jr.s , there were a few slections that i had been looking for, but forget the titlesi would recommend this selection to any of hank jr.s fans that are looking for a excellent quallity cd!

Starts to go downhill at this point
2005-04-27 - In my opinion, Hank Williams Jr. - when he did it right - was about as good as it gets in country music. You listen to his records like "Old Habits" and "Whiskey Bent & Hell Bound" and it is hard to get much better than that. But with this album Hank Jr started showing glimpses of what would become his future...and it's not good. He has a terrible version of "The Tennessee Stud" and everything just seems so overdone. He's best on songs like "I Don't Care If Tomorrow Never Comes", "Ramblin My Shoes" and "All My Rowdy Friends Have Settled Down" - everything else is just filler. And with future albums the filler would get worse until he eventually got to the point he would write things like "This Ain't Dallas" and "Fax Me a Beer". Too bad, terrible waste of talent.

Brilliant album featuring George Jones and Boxcar Willie
2004-02-11 - The standard of this album is set by the opening track, the classic A country boy can survive. The coalition to ban coalitions is one those political songs that Hank is so good, but this is one that a lot of people can empathize with to some extent, whatever their own political beliefs. Of course, everybody feels like joining one of those coalitions at some time or other, when things or values they treasure are threatened. Tennessee stud is a cover of the classic horse song by Jimmy Driftwood. Rambling in my shoes is a duet with Boxcar Willie, a singer who achieved fame in the UK but, as I understand, remained virtually unknown in his homeland. Boxcar also contributed the train whistle effects. The title track is a smoldering bluesy song.

All my rowdy friends have settled down, lamenting how his friends no longer spend as much time enjoying themselves drinking, was one of the biggest hits of Hank's hugely successful career. I don't care if tomorrow never comes, a great duet with George Jones, is about having a good time - so perhaps Hank found one rowdy friend he could still drink with. Weatherman is another great bluesy song, in which Hank begs for a change in the weather. Every time I hear that song is another lament, this time remembering someone he misses. The controversial Ballad of Hank Williams, in which Hank makes his views on his father clear to the tune of Battle of New Orleans, completes an outstanding album.

This is, by Hank's standards, quite a mellow album, proving that he can be brilliant even when he's not being rowdy. Although I normally prefer him when he's rowdy, I enjoy both aspects of his music and the strength of the material here ensures that this is one of my favorite albums of his.