HANK III
Damn Right Rebel Proud
Fuckin’ first time I heard of HANK III was via the liner notes of a SUPERJOINT RITUAL record a long while back. He was the bass player. He is also the son of Hank Williams Jr. and of course the grandson of HANK WILLIAMS. Bout a year er so back I found myself completely aligned with this fuckers music…the songs on the album Straight to Hell spoke to me like a smash to the skull. Lowdown, Pills I Took, Country Heroes, god damn man…this is country music…fuckin’ country music! REAL AMERICAN REBEL FUCK OFF DIRGES…. not the shit on the BAD COUNTRY radio…his songs of truth speak of real life trials with honest, raw, fuck-it-all attitude. And the songs are masterfully played…a few tweaks and this is death metal…in other words…masterful hymns…his DAMN BAND fucking rules.
The latest from HANK III is 50 minutes of twisted country music…real country rebel music…if JIM MORRISON was still around (HE IS) this would be playing in his living room right fucking now. DAMN RIGHT REBEL PROUD starts off with an ode to his grandfather and the fuckin’ grand ole opry (the real story of this fucked up country music hall of rame…YEAH FUCKIN RIGHT!) and winds down a path of livin’ hard, gettin’ fucked up HIGH, and bein’ free in this fucked up country in tracks 2, 3, and 4…(Wild and Free, Me and my Friends, Six Pack of Beer).
Dropping farther into HELL track 5 (I Wish I Knew) explores the confusion of relationships with women…and comes up with NOTHING. Fuckin’ bitches.
If You Can’t Help Your Own (track 6) is a warning of turning your back on those around you (U.S. GOVERNMENT)…what comes around goes around motherfuckers.
Number seven Candidate for Suicide is a fucked up inner self beatin’ up FUCKER…and I feel this shit…these lyrics are blastin’ round in my brain and this song let’s ‘em loose…
By now the album swallows the traditional HELLBILLY country music sounds and warps into a twisted vision of HELL via ‘H8 LINE’ and the best fucking REBEL FUCK IT ALL song i’ve ever heard ‘LONG HAULS AND CLOSE CALLS’…the instruments in this tune are played by SATAN HIMSELF…the vocals of HANK III have never been more TELLING than right FUCKING here…killer damn song bitch.
Track 10 winds down with a suicidal dirge entitled ‘STONED AND ALONE’…the lyric “i’m sleepin’ with misery and she cuts me real deep…and i’m all alone’ echoes the fuckn’ depression of this 5 minute track of bein’ ‘TOO FAR GONE’…if yer on the verge of ending it all don’t listen to this song…
Tune eleven ‘PUNCH FIGHT FUCK’ is “written and dedicated to G.G. Allin”… a nine minute tribute to a crazy fucker who lived a Don’t Give a Fuck life most don’t understand…again, a goddamned thrash/death metal anti-social dirge complete with spoken word samples of G.G. himself. The last half is in the trad CUNTRY style with shouted backing vocals… u ain’t ever heard nothing like this.
’3 SHADES OF BLACK’ is the pinnacle of this album for me… an ode to METAL and MISFITS with a beautiful chord progression and a PERFECT vocal performance…this song gives me fucking goosebumps. BRILLIANT.
The album closes with a Bob Wayne number entitled Workin’ Man…a blue collar tribute to someone feeling the clamp of oppression while trying to feed his family.
This is the REAL SHIT here…fuck yer t.v…turn off the radio…get this album. HORNS UP.
