Robert Christgau: Dean of American Rock Critics

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Hank Williams Jr.: Greatest Hits [Elektra, 1982]
He may be Rosa Luxemburg compared to the Nashville squares he's forever railing against, but he's also a self-indulgent, self-pitying, self-mythologizing MCP, and though this format maximizes the MCP's entertainment and truth value he doesn't get away with "Kaw-Liga" or "Texas Women." Rosa inspires "The American Dream," which has truths to tell about a Hollywood square with the initials RR. The booster who made his debut on "The New South" tells two lies about New York. B