It's About Time (Hank Williams Jr. album) explained
It's About Time is the fifty-third studio album by Hank Williams Jr. released by Nash Icon Records on January 15, 2016.[3] The album includes re-recordings of previously released material and new songs.[4]
Reception
Critical response
Billboard felt that the album's lyrics sent a mixed message, writing, "On the title track of his new album, It's About Time, billed as his 37th, he complains he has 'had enough of this weird pop-country sound.' But that doesn't stop him from recruiting contemporary country talents and tricks for help."[1] Rolling Stone panned the album, writing "Country vet rocks out, waves guns around, incites snoozes". Allmusic gave the album 4 out of 5, writing "there's not a sense of a bro-country sop because this has swagger and, as the man himself says at the song's end, 'the band played like they were pissed.' All through It's About Time, Hank Jr. and his colleagues play it big and burly, laying into barroom boogies and rocking country as if they never went out of style. Williams knows this isn't true, of course. He notes that 'Those Days Are Gone' -- itself an ode to the days when you could hear Haggard, Coe, and Jones on the radio -- but he sings this ode to olden days without a tear in his eye, possibly because he's having too much fun once again raising a ruckus."
Commercial performance
The album debuted at No. 2 on Top Country Albums, the highest he's reached on the chart since the release of Lone Wolf in 1990. The album also debuted at No. 15 on the Billboard 200, selling 24,000 copies in its first week.[5] It sold a further 9,000 copies in its second week.[6] The album has sold 60,800 copies in the US as of March 2016.[7]
Personnel
Charts
Year-end charts
Notes and References
- Web site: Billboard . 2018-04-30 . 2018-05-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180520172120/https://www.billboard.com/articles/review/6843922/hank-williams-jr-its-about-time-album-review . live .
- Web site: Hank Williams Jr. "It’s About Time" Tracklist & Cover Art. Roughstock. RoughStock. 2015-12-25. 2015-12-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20151209125902/http://roughstock.com/news/2015/10/39183-hank-williams-jr-its-about-time-tracklist-cover-art. live.
- Web site: Hank Williams Jr. Joined by Justin Moore, Brantley Gilbert on New LP. Rolling Stone. 2017-09-01. 2017-10-27. https://web.archive.org/web/20171027190835/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/hank-williams-jr-enlists-justin-moore-brantley-gilbert-for-new-album-20151027. live.
- Web site: Hank Williams, Jr. Talks Musical Career & Nash Icon Record Deal - Billboard. Billboard. 2015-12-25. 2015-12-12. https://web.archive.org/web/20151212123349/http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/country/6746213/hank-williams-jr-its-about-time-eric-church-brad-paisley. live.
- Web site: Thomas Rhett Rules Again; Hank Jr. Scores Highest Debut on Country Albums Chart . January 26, 2016 . Jim . Asker . Billboard . February 4, 2016 . January 28, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160128044406/http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6858169/thomas-rhett-hank-williams-jr-country-charts . live .
- News: Country Albums Chart Report: February 2, 2016 . Matt . Bjorke . February 2, 2016 . Roughstock . February 4, 2016 . February 5, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160205010213/http://roughstock.com/news/2016/02/39733-country-albums-chart-report-february-2-2016 . live .
- News: Country Albums Chart: March 20, 2016 . Matt . Bjorke . March 24, 2016 . Roughstock . April 15, 2016 . October 22, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161022141659/http://roughstock.com/news/2016/03/40035-country-albums-chart-march-20-2016 . live .
- Web site: Top Country Albums – Year-End 2016. Billboard. July 26, 2020. December 12, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161212040011/https://www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2016/top-country-albums. live.
