Kentucky comedian Ben Hoffman isn’t just making fun of country music when he takes on the Wheeler Walker persona — he’s also making actual country music. For one thing, Hoffman is a genuine country music fan. For another, Walker’s debut record — “Redneck Sh--,” released in February on Thirty Tiger records — was produced by the Grammy-nom’d Dave Cobb, who’s worked with for-real country acts like Shooter Jennings and Sturgill Simpson.
“I got my ass handed to me my whole life and this is the record that came out,” he told Rolling Stone Country in just a straight-up hilarious Q&A.
Which is not to say “Redneck Sh--” hasn’t earned its branding as the “filthiest country record of all time.”
The music is kinda bro-country-ish, with hard strumming and rousing choruses, but the lyrics are over the top. The funniest stuff can’t really be quoted here — not without more dashes and grawlixes than a Morse code Andy Capp comic — but suffice it to say Walker is a brazen pansexual deviant of the highest order.
Here, watch this excessively NSFW video.
Wheeler Walker Jr.
With Birdcloud
Saturday, June 25
9 p.m. | $15
The Foundry @ Fillmore Philly
29 E. Allen St.