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  Hank Williams III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hank III and label executive Mike Curb would be in and out of court for the next year, and the judge ruled in favor of Hank III in the spring of 2005 and demanded that Curb release the album.
Hank III has recorded the tracks "87 Southbound" and "Thunderstorms and Neon Signs", which were penned by Wayne Hancock, a musician who is often compared to him.
Hank III enjoys an extremely loyal grassroots fan base and much of his success can be attributed to his taper-friendly stance regarding the audio/videotaping of his frenetic live shows, which have been his main promotional vehicle with the lack of attention paid to his promotion by the Curb label.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hank_Williams_III   (875 words)

  
 Hank Williams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hiriam "Hank" Williams (his name was misspelled “Hiriam” on his birth certificate) (September 17, 1923 – January 1, 1953) was an American singer, guitarist and songwriter, who has become an icon of country music and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century.
Hank Williams was born in Georgiana, Alabama (this is sometimes listed as nearby Mount Olive, Butler County, Alabama) in 1923 to Elonzo Williams and Jessie Lillybelle.
Hank Williams' remains are interred at the Oakwood Annex in Montgomery, Alabama.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hank_Williams   (1933 words)

  
 HANK WILLIAMS III
Hank III raves about the now-discontinued Korg product that he uses to write and record: “When I was on the road [playing bass] with Superjoint Ritual, it would be like wake up, go into whatever room we've got, plug it in and start ripping out,” he says.
Hank III sang into the SM7, used the 57 on his acoustic guitar and kept a KSM32 going at all times to capture room vocal and guitar tracks that were later blended in.
That was solved, in part, with Hank III twisting a knob on the D1600, checking the sound as it played on his home stereo system, which includes a Paradigm subwoofer, and then returning to finish the track.
mixonline.com /mag/audio_hank_williams_iii/index.html   (1255 words)

  
 Hank Williams III
Hank III’s lanky frame and the unmistakable thin lines and angularity of his face remind many fans of his famous grandfather.
Hank III at a young age was very bit as rebellious as his father and his father’s father before him.
Hank III draws on his own true working class and rural simpatico from his upbringing amongst his mother ‘s farming family, the Yeargains of Jane, Missouri, population 500.
www.pattersonandassociates.com /bios/Hank_Williams_III   (646 words)

  
 SeanClaes.com — Hank Williams III   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
At 31 years old, Shelton Hank Williams III has played the Grand Ole Opry, released two country albums on Curb Records, is a member of metal band Superjoint Ritual and punk band Assjack, and has appeared in a movie.
Williams is currently on a two month break from the Superjoint Ritual tour, which is how he is able to tour as Hank Williams III.
Williams is now used to being compared to his grandfather and being part three in a musical legacy.
www.seanclaes.com /HankIII.html   (2005 words)

  
 Metroactive Music | Hank Williams III
Hank Williams III --born Shelton Hank Williams--is the grandson of country legend Hank Williams and son of country rocker and hellraiser Hank Williams Jr.
But Hank III, who makes his North Bay debut on April 24 at the Mystic Theatre, is also a diehard Black Sabbath fan who used to play drums in a punk-thrash band called Buzzkill and whose musical heroes run closer to Kurt Cobain than Roy Acuff.
Hank Williams III performs on Wednesday, April 24, at 8pm, at the Mystic Theatre, 23 Petaluma Blvd. N., Petaluma.
www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/04.18.02/hankwilliams-0216.html   (684 words)

  
 Hank Williams III Covers Hank Williams I   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Hank Williams III has recorded his first ever cover of one of his grandfathers songs.
Williams 1 became a country music superstar at the age of 25 in the late 40’s but was dead at age 29.
Williams III is a third generation country star, following in the steps of his father Hank Williams Jr and his grandfather before him.
www.undercover.com.au /news/2006/jan06/20060124_hankwilliams.html   (199 words)

  
 Hank Williams III biography >> liveDaily
As the grandson of Hank Williams and the son of Hank Jr., he was country music royalty before he ever sang a note.
It was about as far from what Hank III wanted as he could get and signaled the beginning of his stormy relationship with Curb.
While Outlaw had featured material from outside writers, the new LP was all Hank III but for a previously released cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Atlantic City." He also produced, recorded, and mixed it by his lonesome in just two weeks.
www.livedaily.com /artists/bio/997.html   (708 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Straight to Hell: Music: Hank Williams III   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
A new album from Hank Williams III is always a revelation: first, because it came out at all (his relationship with his label is as stormy as the marriage of his legendary grandparents); and second, because of its content and execution.
Hank III calls the new offering--recorded mostly on a $500 machine, for a DIY sound--a "thrill ride into a life of sin." This may explain the fact that Straight to Hell, which opens with some old-fashioned gospel and abruptly ends with the sound of a belly-laughing Satan, comes with a parental advisory sticker.
I've doubted "Hank III's" credibility ever since I read that his real name is Shelton, and he never paid any attention to country music until he was in financial hardship and needed to take advantage of his heritage to make some dough.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000AGTQGS?v=glance   (1587 words)

  
 Hank Williams III - Risin' Outlaw   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Not only is Hank III the spitting image of his late grandaddy, he sings just like him too--and on tracks like "You're the Reason" and "On My Own," the resemblance is downright eerie.
Shelton Hank Williams, grandson of the country music icon, shows everything he's got on "I Don't Know," his debut's opening track: breakneck fiddle; fancy picking, equal parts Nashville and Macon; flexible rhythm section; wounded, piercing vocals; and unforgiving songs of rage, recklessness, and rejection.
Hank III has given notice that he is ready to make his own contributions to the Williams legacy.
www.rockabilly.net /hank3/cd2.shtml   (741 words)

  
 Hank Williams III   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Shelton Hank Williams III was born December 12, 1972, in Nashville, TN.
But III could just as easily shift gears into screeching, Black Flag-style punk rock with his hard-rocking combo Assjack.
Curb issued Hank III's proper debut in September 1999.
www.djangomusic.com /artist_bio.asp?id=R+++428442   (582 words)

  
 Hank Williams III Bio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
As in Shelton Hank Williams - HANK WILLIAMS III, a hard-rockin' country singer with attitude and a voice that reminds many fans of his famous grandfather.
Like his famous forbears, HANK WILLIAMS III is a rebel to the country establishment, though you wouldn't know it from his debut album "Rising Outlaw" which takes the music two generations back to the raw, urgent roots of its melancholy, sad-eyed troubadour, who died at age 29 in the back seat of a car.
Indeed, Hank Williams III's current fans range from tattooed, pierced teens and twenty-somethings more prone to body-surfing than line-dancing to blue-haired ladies and 60-something gents eager to hear the lad with the eerie resemblance to Hank Williams sing his grandfather's songs, like "Your Cheatin' Heart" and "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry."
www.brsk.net /nessfest/00hank.htm   (352 words)

  
 Hank Williams III & Hank Williams Return to 21st Century Radio
Both of Hank III's CDs, Risin' Outlaw and Lovesick, Broke and Driftin, deliver the traditional country sound in clear and strong rebellion against the pop-superstar country music pushed on corporate radio today.
Hiram King "Hank" Williams is the giant of Country music, the father of contemporary Country and the Country artist with the greatest influence on rock 'n' roll--and he did it all in just four short years.
Williams was so popular that when he appeared on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry in 1949 he received an unprecedented six encores.
www.21stcenturyradio.com /articles/04/0609299.html   (764 words)

  
 Ants on the Melon»Blog Archive » Hank Williams III, Wayward Drifters
Hank III and his band came on stage and the place went wild.
After about an hour, Hank took off his cowboy hat, dowsed himself with a bottle of water, and said to the crowd “Well, that was the first part of our show”, picked up the white Gibson SG and began playing death metal.
But a Hank III show is like a real good roll in the sack–ya can’t stop just when it’s getting hot and heavy–gotta climax or you go home unfulfilled.
ants.wynand.com /2005/07/29/79   (926 words)

  
 Music | Hank Williams III   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Just like a real-life bender, Hank III’s second album has moments of shimmering brilliance and some dumb antics; in the end, it’s kind of a pleasant blur.
The bass and drums are not studio-pumped, veteran steel-guitar man Kayton Roberts and the other pickers wail, and Hank’s voice is piercing and emotive just like his granddad’s.
But regardless of whether Williams keeps fighting himself or the industry, his star will almost inevitably rise because of his name, because of the undeniable talent displayed on "Cecil Brown" and "7 Months, 39 Days," and because something is bound to hit when a Williams keeps writing drinking and outlaw songs.
www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/music/otr/documents/02164875.htm   (187 words)

  
 CD Review: Hank Williams III - Straight To Hell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Hank Williams III wants you to know he doesn't give a damn what you think.
When you are the country-singing grandson of the greatest country singer of all time, and the son of a man who himself has had dozens of top-ten country hits and remained until this year the face of NFL football, I imagine it's important to stake out your own territory as a man.
To try to live up to this would be a hard burden to carry for even the steadiest person, and Hank Williams III is definitely not steady.
www.ramradio.net /blog/_archives/2006/2/22/1778092.html   (296 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Risin' Outlaw: Music: Hank Williams III   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Hank III has done nothing but prove what a whiner he is by trashing other artists.
III steps into the shadow and lights it up like a state fair on the 4th of July.
His father may have left a few things to be desired but Hank III picks up right where his grandfather left off and brings a modern edge to this music.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000K3G0?v=glance   (1573 words)

  
 eBay - hank williams iii jr, Music Memorabilia, CDs items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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 Hank Williams III: MusicWorld® Hitmakers Story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
As the grandson of seminal country legend Hank Williams and the son of veteran hell-raiser Hank Williams Jr., Hank Williams III comes by his rebellious nature honestly.
Although Curb has marketed him as a country artist, Hank III's live shows offer an unpredictable mix of honky-tonk and raw, propulsive rock, delivered in varying proportions depending on the venue.
He's played the country circuit as well as sharing stages with such left-of-center rock acts as Beck, the Melvins and the Reverend Horton Heat, and has recorded a rock album that he hopes to release later this year.
www.bmi.com /musicworld/onthescene/200203/hwilliams_iii.asp   (361 words)

  
 Hank Williams III
Obviously, Hank carries the moniker of two of the legends of country music, his grandfather and his father.
Hank III's first CD, Risin' Outlaw, wasn't just a name decided upon by the musical promoters that liked Hank's tattoo with these same words.
Hank III didn't make the jump into the country music lifestyle immediately.
www.cybercountry.com /hankwilliamsIII.html   (465 words)

  
 Hank Williams III lives up to famous name   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Hank Williams III has inherited all the right musical genes.
The voice, a tightly wound drawl that alternated between whine and yodel, was a dead ringer for Hank Senior's.
Much like his granddad's work, there was a dark edge to Hank III's tales of the high life, underscored by eerie comments made between songs about an ill-fated trip to rehab and justifications for his substance intake.
www.enquirer.com /editions/1999/12/06/loc_hank_williams_iii.html   (486 words)

  
 Hank Williams III - Stormfront White Nationalist Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
I saw Superjoint Ritual mentioned on the Pantera thread--Hank III plays bass for them in addition to having his own country and metal band.
Hank Williams jr.'s song was standard, oh now you done got America mad and watch out.
His boy Hank 3 stays true to his hillbilly roots which is much more than can be said about anyone who gets airtime on the radio or CMT.
www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=52582   (979 words)

  
 Metro Pulse/Music/Hank Williams III
Hank Williams III released his first album, Risin’ Outlaw, in 1999.
In 1996, he recorded Three Hanks, a strange album—now, thankfully, just a footnote—that spliced his voice alongside his father’s and grandfather’s on digitally edited versions of “I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive” and “Move It On Over.” Then came Risin’ Outlaw, a straight-up traditional country record that Hank III almost immediately disowned.
Hank III sees himself as part of a new generation of country music outsiders, like the Outlaws of the 1970s, fighting against Nashville’s commercial pop hegemony and—almost predictably—railing against current Nashville stud Toby Keith.
www.metropulse.com /dir_zine/dir_2004/1408/t_music.html   (724 words)

  
 Hank Williams III doesn’t pull any punches
Williams, or Hank III as he’s known to his followers, doesn’t pull punches as he talks by phone from “some (expletive)-hole bar” in Oklahoma City.
In the meantime, Williams is readying a pile of rock and country tunes for release when the floodgates open.
Williams credits the common themes that run between old-school country and the darker side of rock with drawing all types of fans.
www.rgj.com /news/stories/html/2004/02/26/64896.php   (715 words)

  
 Rhapsody Music: Download, Listen, Play & Burn Hank Williams III
The grandson of a Honky-Tonk legend and son of one of Southern Rock's biggest outlaws, III's found his own sound in Cowpunk.
Hank III also has a side project named Assjack, which Williams describes as "hellbilly danger with and old-school punk feel."
Click here to start listening to Hank Williams III and thousands of other artists FREE for 14 days with Rhapsody Unlimited.
www.real.com /dmm/rhapsody/artist/?artistid=44568   (115 words)

  
 Hank Williams III
Hank Williams III puts on the best concert show you can go see.
Hank III has come to save our souls from bad radio.
www.itcamefromtrafalgar.com would like to thank Hank III for doing what he does.
www.itcamefromtrafalgar.com /HANK3.html   (179 words)

  
 The Austin Chronicle: Hank Williams III   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The approach that seems to work for the kid is equal parts honky-tonk twang and metallic rock grit, plus the ability to shift gears on the fly.
Opening is Austin's own delta devil Scott Biram, who has penned a song for Hank on his forthcoming album.
Close your eyes and get swept back to 1951 when the original Lonesome Drifter was onstage, then get blasted in to the present when the guitars rev up.
www.austinchronicle.com /gyrobase/Guides/Bands?oid=53677   (131 words)

  
 Hank Williams III ::::: the official website   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He is as important to this generation of music lovers as his roots would predict.
Hank III is a dose of Hard Core reality you won't find in today's candy assed country music."
"III is one of the most talented, down to earth people that anyone could ever know.
www.hank3.com   (217 words)

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