Wild Streak

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Wild Streak
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Studio album by
ReleasedJune 21, 1988 (1988-06-21)
Genre Southern rock [1]
Length38:16
Label Warner Bros.
Producer Barry Beckett
Jim Ed Norman
Hank Williams, Jr.
Hank Williams Jr. chronology
Born to Boogie
(1987)
Wild Streak
(1988)
Hank Williams, Jr.'s Greatest Hits, Vol. 3
(1989)
Singles from Wild Streak
  1. "If the South Woulda Won"
    Released: July 1988
  2. "Early in the Morning and Late at Night"
    Released: November 5, 1988
Professional ratings
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Wild Streak is the forty-first studio album by American country music artist Hank Williams Jr. It was released by Warner Bros. Records on June 21, 1988. "If the South Woulda Won" and "Early in the Morning and Late at Night" were released as singles. The album reached No. 1 on the Top Country Albums chart [2] and has been certified Gold by the RIAA. [3]

Contents

"Tuesday's Gone" is a Lynyrd Skynyrd cover which later appeared on the 1994 compilation Skynyrd Frynds .

Track listing

  1. "Wild Streak" (Hank Williams, Jr., Terri Sharp) - 3:01
  2. "If the South Woulda Won" (Williams) - 3:19
  3. "What You Don't Know (Won't Hurt You)" (Williams) - 4:31
  4. "You're Gonna Be a Sorry Man" (Al Anderson) - 3:53
  5. "Love M.D." (Tony Joe White, Leann White) - 4:14
  6. "Early in the Morning and Late at Night" (Troy Seals, Frank J. Myers) - 2:29
  7. "I'm Just a Man" (Williams) - 3:17
  8. "Social Call" (Williams) - 4:35
  9. "You Brought Me Down to Earth" (Williams) - 3:33
  10. "Tuesday's Gone" (Allen Collins, Ronnie Van Zant) - 5:47

Production

Personnel

Charts

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References

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  3. RIAA - Gold & Platinum
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