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...workers watching "Candlepins for Cash" on the television, or Charlie's Kitchen, where the huge run of students doesn't seem to intimidate the generally townie crowd which still dominates a bar, over which hangs a faded autographed photo of John F. Kennedy '40. Fathers Six allows the jukebox to play hellishly loud, and while the favorite place for freshmen and other youngsters, is sufficiently worried to check i.d.'s at the door. Fathers is worth trying; under another management and another name, it came perilously close to achieving teen-age leather bar status, but that's changed, thank...
OCHS WENT THROUGH some feeble attempts to find his audience again. He adopted the notion that the way to America was through the jukebox and this reasoning led him onstage at Carnegie Hall in a gold lame suit. It was all carried off with an extreme self-consciousness--on the back of the album that followed the concert, he wrote '50 Phil Ochs fans can't be wrong...
...what really pulled me there on Friday and Saturday nights when my friends had dates was the music. In every joint there is a Wurlitzer filled with country music, and maybe a little K.C. & the Sunshine Band thrown incongruously in for dancing and revisionism. The best songs in the jukebox were progressive country: Jerry Jeff Walker, Waylon Jennings (and the Waylors), Willie Nelson, Jessi Colter, Emmy Lou Harris, along with Jimmy Buffet in a more folk-pop direction and Merle Haggard in a more mainstream country tradition. With his Friends album, Hank Williams, Jr. joins this group...
...overall tone of the album is near despair, and its saddest song is "Stoned at the Jukebox." When Williams sings of "loving that hurtin' music, 'cause I been hurting too," it seems to come from the heart-wrenching realization that Hank Williams, Jr. can never be entirely accepted for his own music, no matter how good that music...
...cliche about country music is that if you listen to it long enough, your story will come up on the jukebox. This album, by telling Hank Williams, Jr.'s story in very real and poignant terms, marks the emergence of a man who could become a major force in country music. Hank Williams, Jr. has spent most of his life searching for a father, to find only legend. There is no need for him to search any longer; at 26, Hank Williams, Jr. has come...