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Track Listing
1. Last Pork Chop
2. Go Girl Go
3. F-Word, The - (with Kid Rock)
4. If the Good Lord's Willing (And the Creeks Don't Rise)
5. X-Treme Country
6. Last Pork Chop - (acoustic version)
7. Big Top Women
8. Cheatin' Hotel, The
9. Outdoor Lovin' Man - (with Nickel Creek)
10. Almeria Jam
11. Tee Tot Song
12. Cross on the Highway
13. America Will Survive - (studio version)
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Hank Williams Jr. (vocals, dobro, banjo); Kid Rock (guitar, background vocals); Rick Vito (acoustic & electric guitars, dobro); James Burton, Wayne "Animal" Turner, Kenny Olson (guitar); "Cowboy" Eddie Long (steel guitar); Donny Herron (lap steel guitar, fiddle); Tramp Camp (mandolin, fiddle); Larry Franklin (fiddle); Jimmy Hall, Heidi Newfield (harmonica); Ira Dean (horn, bass, background vocals); Reese Wynans (piano, Hammond B-3 organ); Jimmy Nichols (keyboard); James "Hutch" Hutchinson (bass); Re'chard Fataar (drums).
Nickel Creek: Sean Watkins (acoustic guitar); Chris Thile (mandolin); Sara Watkins (fiddle).
Recorded at The Almeira Club, Almeira, Alabama, The Greater Pentecostal Temple, Kansas City, Kansas and Louisiana Hayride, Shreveport, Louisiana.
Includes liner notes by Hank Williams, Jr and Kay Knight.
The Almeria Club was a hard-edged, Alabama honky-tonk that was the site of a hot-tempered 1947 incident that became part of the lore of Hank Williams. More than 50 years later, Hank Jr. recorded an album in that very same notorious joint as a tribute to his father's rebel reputation. In keeping with the down-home theme, the production is agreeably raw and rootsy, bouncing from rockabilly ("Go Girl Go") to jump blues ("If the Good Lord's Willin'") and the ZZ Top-like blues-rock (the salacious double entendre "Last Pork Chop") that is a staple of Hank Jr.'s work. In keeping with his image as a flag-waving Charlie Daniels-like figure, Williams caps off the album with "America Will Survive," a post-9/11 anthem of transcendence that is ironically one of the least country-flavored tunes on the album.
Industry Reviews
...A surprisingly meaty set of blues, boogie, and deep-dish country....carrying on family tradition with renewed fervor and form. - Ratings: B+
Entertainment Weekly (01/11/2002)
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