Producers: Barry Beckett, Hank Williams, Jr., Jim Ed Norman.
Recorded at Emerald Sound Studios, Nashville, Tennessee.
This is Volume 15 of Curb's Bocephus series.
Personnel: Richie Young, Wayne Turner, Reggie Young , Richard Bennett , Billy Joe Walker (guitar); Eddie Long (steel guitar); Terry McMillan (harmonica); Jerry McKinney (clarinet); Jim Horn, Wayne Jackson , Ben Cauley, Charles Rose, Harvey Thompson (horns); Barry Beckett, John Jarvis (keyboards); Mike Lawler (synthesizer); James Stroud, Matt Betton (drums); Carl Marsh (programming); John Cowan, Bonnie Bramlett (background vocals).
Unknown Contributor Roles: Carlos Grier; Barry Beckett.
One of Hank Williams, Jr.'s best '80s albums, due largely to shrewd song selection and improved production, courtesy of Muscle Shoals veteran Barry Beckett. There's also great guitar playing by Steve Earle cohort Richard Bennett.
Highlights include the ode to the new South "Young Country," in which Williams comes out in favor of both Waylon Jennings and Van Halen, and two rock covers--the Stones' "Honky Tonk Women," and the Georgia Satellites' "Keep Your Hands to Yourself," that could have been written with Williams in mind. "Shadow Face" is a clearly autobiographical song about his ambivalent relationship with both his famous father, and the Nashville establishment.
