Hank Williams Jr., son of the legendary country singer Hank Williams, has announced a new album titled Rich White Honky Blues. His 57th studio LP is produced by Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys and is due out June 17 via Easy Eye Sound. The lead single is “.44 Special Blues.”
Rich White Honky Blues spans 12 tracks in total. Williams, Jr. is joined on the album by electric slide guitarist Kenny Brown, bassist Eric Deaton, and drummer Kinney Kimbrough. It’s his first studio full-length since 2016’s It’s About Time.
“First thing he said to me when he walked in was, ‘I don’t really feel like fucking with this shit!’ and he walked into another room,” said Auerbach in a statement. “If you wanted to play this kind of music, you couldn’t have better players. The first time I ever saw Hank Jr. on TV, I was a kid raised on Robert Johnson and Hank Williams, Sr. records, and those things came through so clearly watching him. So, I tried to assemble the right parts to just sit in that piece of who he is.”
In 2011, while appearing on the Fox News show Fox & Friends, Hank Williams Jr. infamously compared Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler after the then-president played golf with former House Speaker John Boehner. ESPN pulled his Emmy-winning song “All My Rowdy Friends” from Monday Night Football as a result of the remark, marking the first broadcast without the song in 20 years. “My analogy was extreme, but it was to make a point. I was simply trying to explain how stupid it seemed to me—how ludicrous that pairing was,” Williams later said.
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