Hank Williams Jr.'s Greatest Hits

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Hank Williams Jr.'s Greatest Hits
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Released1982 (1982)
Genre
Length33:10
Label Elektra/Curb
Hank Williams Jr. chronology
High Notes
(1982)
Hank Williams Jr.'s Greatest Hits
(1982)
Strong Stuff
(1983)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Hank Williams Jr.'s Greatest Hits is a compilation album by American musician Hank Williams Jr. The album features ten tracks, nine of which are singles originally released from the studio albums Family Tradition , Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound , Habits Old and New , Rowdy and The Pressure Is On . The only original single from the album was "The American Dream", which peaked at number 5 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.

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The album was released by Elektra/Curb Records in 1982 and reached number 4 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart in January 1983. [2] [3] The album has been Williams' most commercially successful album to date, having been certified 5× Multi-Platinum by the RIAA by 2003. [4] It has sold 3,410,700 copies in the US as of April 2017 in the SoundScan era when sales figure started to be tracked in 1991. [5]

Track listing

All tracks composed by Hank Williams Jr. except where indicated.

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Family Tradition" 4:02
2."Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound" 3:08
3."Women I've Never Had" 2:51
4."Old Habits" 3:02
5."Kaw-Liga" Fred Rose, Hank Williams 4:23
6."Dixie on My Mind" 2:39
7."Texas Women" 2:26
8."The American Dream" 2:15
9."A Country Boy Can Survive" 4:15
10."All My Rowdy Friends (Have Settled Down)" 3:54

Chart performance

Chart (1982)Peak
position
US Billboard 200 [6] 107
US Top Country Albums (Billboard) [7] 4

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