Wheeler Walker Jr. | |
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Born | December 13, 1974 |
Origin | Lexington, Kentucky |
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Wheeler Walker Jr. (born December 13, 1974) is the alter-ego of comedian Ben Hoffman. As a country music singer-songwriter, his debut album Redneck Shit, produced by Dave Cobb was released on February 12, 2016.
The album Redneck Shit was released on February 12, 2016 via Thirty Tigers and Pepper Hill Records. The album originally premiered via stream on the pornographic website PornHub. It debuted at number nine on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart, number one on the Billboard Top Comedy Albums chart, and number 127 on the US Billboard 200. It was the first album to debut in both the top 10 of the comedy and country charts for a decade.
Rolling Stone called it "Unfathomably obscene and undeniably offensive, the debut album from Nashville never-was Wheeler Walker Jr. is also goddamn funny. But Redneck Shit is far from just an X-rated novelty record."
The album Ol' Wheeler was released on June 2, 2017 via Thirty Tigers and Pepper Hill Records. It debuted at number 10 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart, with 7,800 copies sold in its first week.