Wheeler Walker Jr. | |
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Background information | |
Born | December 13, 1974 |
Origin | Lexington, Kentucky |
Genres | Country, Comedy-Country |
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 February 12, 2016.
The album Redneck Shit was released February 12, 2016 via Thirty Tigers/Pepper Hill Records. The album originally premiered via stream on the pornographic website PornHub. It debuted at number 9 on the Billboard Country Charts, number-one on the Billboard Comedy Charts and #127 on The Billboard 200. It was the first album to debut in both the top ten 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 June 2, 2017 via Thirty Tigers/Pepper Hill Records. It debuted at No. 10 on the Top Country Albums chart, with 7,800 copies sold in its first week.