Lone Wolf (CD - 1990)

Personnel includes: Hank Williams, Jr. (vocals, guitar); Steve Gibson (guitar, banjo); Sammy Hagar, Billy Joe Walker, Jr., Wayne "Animal" Turner (guitar); "Cowboy" Eddie Long (steel guitar); Mark O'Connor (fiddle); Jo-El Sonnier (accordion); Jim Horn, George Tidwell (horn); Matt Rollings, John Jarvis (keyboards); Mike Lawler (synthesizer); David Hungate (bass); Eddie Bayers (drums).

Producers: Barry Beckett, Jim Ed Norman, Hank Williams, Jr.

Principally recorded at Emerald Sound Studios, Nashville, Tennessee.

This is Volume 17 of Curb's Bocephus series.

Personnel: Billy Joe Walker (guitar, acoustic guitar); Steve Gibson (guitar, banjo); Wayne Turner, Reggie Young , Sammy Hagar (guitar); Eddie Long (steel guitar); Mark O'Connor (fiddle); Jo-El Sonnier (accordion); Jerry McKinney (saxophone); Dennis Good, Jim Horn, Jack Hale, Mike Haynes , George Tidwell, Quitman Dennis (horns); Matt Rollings, Barry Beckett, John Jarvis (keyboards); Mike Lawler (synthesizer); Roy M. "Junior" Husky, Edgar Meyer (acoustic bass); Eddie Bayers (drums); Carl Marsh (programming); Cindy Richardson, Donna McElroy, Ava Aldridge (background vocals).

Recording information: Emerald Sound Studio; Masterfonics, Nashville, TN.

Photographer: Peter Nash.

Unknown Contributor Role: Jimmy C. Newman.

WILD STREAK, Hank Williams Jr.'s previous album, was straight-ahead Southern rock. LONE WOLF marks a return to a hard country sound. There are no Lynyrd Skynyrd covers here.

Highlights include a remake of David Houston's 1966 honky-tonk hit "Almost Persuaded," and "Big Mamou," with zydeco great Jo-El Sonnier on accordion. "U.S.A. Today" is yet another of Williams, Jr.'s patented patriotic anthems. He notes sagely that "we have the right to vote our leaders in, and the right to vote 'em out." "Stoned at the Jukebox" quotes from Williams Sr.'s "I Can't Help it If I'm Still in Love With You," while "Man to Man" finds Junior fantasizing about phoning his father in heaven. minimize