''Ol' Wheeler'' is the second
album
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by American
country
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artist
Wheeler Walker, Jr. Released on June 2, 2017, the album debuted at number 10 on the ''Billboard'' Top Country Albums chart, with 7,800 copies sold in its first week.
Prior to the album's release, crowd funding music site
PledgeMusic
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removed the album's pre-sales and refunded fans due to obscenity complaints. Upset, Wheeler Walker, Jr. claimed
censorship
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and angry fans responded by
trolling
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a page promoting the band
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* 311 (number), a natural number
* AD 311, a year of the Julian calendar, in the fourth century AD
* 311 BC, a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar
* 311 (band), an American band
** ''311'' (album), band 311's self-titled album
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Track listing
Charts
References
2017 albums
Ben Hoffman albums
Albums produced by Dave Cobb
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