Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound, released in November 1979, rates among his greatest works. He was, as he brags in the live version of “My Name Is Bocephus,” the “platinum boy that does the rock ’n’ roll-country-blues.” ![]() & Friends LP in 1975, when he embraced the outlaw ethos, through his last truly great album, Lone Wolf in 1990, he released a string of solid-to-stellar studio albums along with a truly stupendous live set, 1987’s Hank Live, and not one, not two, but three best-of collections. At worst, they don’t think of him at all. At best, in their eyes, he’s the cartoonish buffoon who sings the Monday Night Football theme. ![]() as a reactionary clown due to the conservative canards he long ago embraced, and a wide swath of America has done just that. ![]() (As noted in my first Essentials entry, this is an occasional series in which I spotlight albums that, in my estimation, everyone should experience at least once.)
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