Wheeler Walker, Jr.

Wheeler Walker, Jr. is usually a country vocalist and songwriter who would like to recreate the basic honky tonk audio and the glory times of outlaw nation music, and he’s motivated to take action by writing tracks that would have got got him yanked from the Grand Ol’ Opry broadcast in just a matter of secs. Hailing from Lexington, Kentucky, Walker spent years in the outskirts from the music business through the ’80s and ’90s, playing little clubs and getting an insider’s popularity being a talented songwriter. But simply because Nashville started embracing a far more refined sound, Walker discovered it increasingly challenging to be noticed in Music Town. He arrived record offers at three different main labels, but based on the musician, his music sounded as well solid and his lyrics had been too vibrant for nation radio, and his habit of shedding moderate expletives into this music resulted in him being decreased from all three brands without the finished albums ever viewing the light of day time. By the middle-2010s, Walker experienced lost his persistence with playing by Nashville’s guidelines, and after conference maker Dave Cobb, who spent some time working with famous brands Jason Isbell and Sturgill Simpson, they proceeded to go into the studio room and slice the recording Walker always wished to make. The recording involved was entitled Redneck Shit, and its own first solitary quickly became a cult item that racked up amazing airplay on satellite television radio and a lot of on-line spins. Nevertheless, the song, entitled “Fuck You, Bitch,” was just like lyrically unpleasant as the name indicate, which designed mainstream nation radio overlooked it no matter what. In Feb 2016, Redneck Shit premiered by Pepper Hill Information (written by Thirty Tigers), and with tunes like “Ale, Weed, Cooches,” “Take a seat on My Encounter,” and “Can’t Fuck You Off My Brain,” the recording experienced something to offend almost anyone, and Walker appeared poised to finally turn into a celebrity in Nashville, despite his boundless contempt for the united states music establishment and a terminal case of toilet mouth area. If Wheeler Walker, Jr.’s tale sounds as well strange to become true, that’s since it is usually; Walker’s long profession and vibrant back-story, aswell as his music, was all imagined up by comedian and humor article writer Ben Hoffman, who creates and sings Walker’s tunes and is the owner of the brand to his alter ego. Hoffman briefly hosted his personal show on Humor Central, The Ben Display with Ben Hoffman, and offers written for it displays Archer, The Past due Late Display with Wayne Corden, and InfoMania. While Wheeler Walker, Jr. could be a fake, the Redneck Shit recording as well as the “Fuck You, Bitch” singles have become much actual, and Hoffman offers given several interviews to music magazines in character mainly because Walker, posting his evidently sincere opinions on the subject of the sorry condition of mainstream nation music, aswell mainly because Walker’s epic recent. Taking advantage of Redneck Shit’s shock chart achievement, Hoffman once again donned his Stetson and required another stab at documenting as Walker, coming back in June 2017 along with his equally unpleasant follow-up record, Ol’ Wheeler, which highlighted singles like “Pussy Ruler” and “Finger Up My Butt.”