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"Lord, honey, you're a ghost," Minnie Pearl allegedly told Hank Williams III after their first meeting. It's a natural reaction to the skinny singer with the sunken cheekbones and, especially, the pinched nasal vocal--so reminiscent of his famous grandfather's catch-and-moan delivery. Hank III's debut, Risin' Outlaw, made t
"Lord, honey, you're a ghost," Minnie Pearl allegedly told Hank Williams III after their first meeting. It's a natural reaction to the skinny singer with the sunken cheekbones and, especially, the pinched nasal vocal--so reminiscent of his famous grandfather's catch-and-moan delivery. Hank III's debut, Risin' Outlaw, made that clear, but now his follow-up carves it on the wall, vocally, melodically, and lyrically. While the third-generation rebel strives mightily to find his own sound by wedding the spooky, old-style country blues and dark themes of his grandfather (Hank Sr.) to the Southern rock and boogie of his dad (Hank Jr.), at times he's guilty of trying too hard to buck Nashville ("Trashville") and re-create the misery of the Williams family tradition. Song after song packs danger and despair between the lines, in drinking to kill the pain, in wallowing in depression, in walking the "low road" of life. That said, III knows how to conjure a gutbucket rhythm ("7 Months and 39 Days") as well as a mournful tearjerker ("5 Shots of Whiskey"), and his touring band keeps things spare, raw, and honkin'. Not everything comes together, but there's no doubting this is a fascinating snapshot of a magical performer struggling to make his own legend. --Alanna Nash
"Infinitely better than his debut, which failed to properly capture his sound. It's still a little too polished perhaps, but every song sounds great anyway & there's a lot of honest emotion poured into each one.
Favorite song: "Trashville"
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the giraffe added this to a list 2 years, 4 months ago
"2002
By this point I'd seen Hank III a few times, but he'd only played his country music. Well, this time when he rolled into town he had a new trick up his sleeve. He started out playing his style of country, which lasted about 45 minutes. Then he told the audience things were going to get crazy, so if anyone wanted to leave now was the time to do so. He & his band took a short break, then returned to the stage looking more like a punk band than a country group. They blasted through their cowp"
Vergil x Dante added this to a list 3 years, 8 months ago
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