Artist: Hank Williams III
Record Review from web archive November 21, 2008
Hank III
Given Hank Williams III’s raw, irreverent traditionalism and maverick reputation (doing hard-country and heavy metal sets back-to-back onstage), it’s no surprise that this album, like 2006′s Straight To Hell, is out in both uncut and PG versions, with a Parental Advisory imprint. That’s largely due to the opener, “The Grand Ole Opry (Ain’t So Grand)”, [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #63 May-June 2006
Hank III – Straight To Hell
He’s blessed and damned with more than just his grandaddy’s voice. A hundred-something taut-sprung pounds of lean, mean, muscle and steel, Hank III is a hurtling train, a outlaw rebel, a glorious mess of wired and wiry assjack punk. Two previous albums of plain-spun, heart-wrung honky-tonk really only skimmed the surface. This two-disc set cuts [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #50 March-April 2004
Hank Williams III / Scott Biram – Great American Music Hall (San Francisco, CA)
Twenty minutes after his show had ended, Hank Williams III lingered at center stage and leaned down to talk to his fans, taking their gushing praise with a smile and signing whatever was thrust in front of him. If Hank III shares anything with his much-celebrated grandfather, it is the ability to bend the ear [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #38 March-April 2002
Hank Williams III – The third man
“Lord, honey, you’re a ghost,” Minnie Pearl said when she first met Hank Williams III. I have the same reaction; he looks so much like his grandfather that it is unnerving. Tall and lanky, with sunken cheeks and keenly intelligent eyes, he is Hank Sr.’s twin. But when we settle down into his basement lair, [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #28 July-Aug 2000
Hank Williams III – Patton Avenue Pub (Asheville, NC)
“We’re gonna do some songs about drinkin’ and smokin’ and bein’ up all night and livin’ free,” proclaimed 27-year-old Shelton Hank Williams III as he took the stage, three shots of appeared to be Jaegermaister perched atop a speaker in a perfect line behind his left shoulder. “And if we get drunk enough, we’re gonna [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #24 Nov-Dec 1999
Hank Williams III – Risin’ Outlaw
Just as critics reduce Hank Jr. to the party animal cartoon he became, so they’ll doubtless be falling all over themselves to tout his kid as the second coming of Hank Sr. Granted, there are some striking similarities between first and third generation Hanks: III is pale and gaunt like his granddad; he sings with [...]
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