If you don’t know who Kinky Friedman is, then holy shit. Aside from being a writer, columnist, humorist, governor of Texas candidate, this dude was one of the ORIGINAL country artists down in Austin, TX with Ray Wylie Hubbard, Michael Murphy, Jerry Jeff Walker, and the others, when Austin music and The Outlaws took country […]
Just down from hank3.com: The muddin’ version of ‘Long Hauls and Close Calls’ ALSO: Yep that’s none other than Shelton Hank III and Hank Jr. hanging out with none other than Jesco White. Here’s the scoop: “Recently, a meeting of the outlaws took place in Paris TN for the filming of “The Wild and Wonderful […]
First: On Friday I got my much belated, but much anticipated Metal Farm Magazine in the mail! Now I knew there was going to be pictures of Hank III done by Keith Neltner and Reinstate Hank Williams content, BUT NOBODY TOLD ME ABOUT THE HOT CHICKS!!! Dude, there are hot women in their skivies in […]
Reviews keep coming in for Damn Right, Rebel Proud . Here’s a new one from The Boot: “Hank Williams III, as his name suggests, is third-generation country-music royalty. But the grandson of Hank Williams, and son of Hank Williams Jr., unabashedly blends the family tradition of “good ol’ country,” with some startlingly darker fare, and […]
Saturday morning I woke up after sleeping one off, and listened to Tim Pop’s 100th podcast, and then listened to It Burns When I Pee’s latest offering. Both shows were great, and after listening, I got this weird sense, like there was something big going on. Something very big. I guess I’ve always known that […]
Wasn’t planning to post a blog today but there’s a bunch of random shit to talk about, so here we go. First off sorry to everyone who tried to leave comments or kudos on my blog yesterday and got an error message. Stupid MySpace. Another Hank III Impostor If you go here you can see […]
First off, thanks to EVERYONE who spent the time to report the fake Hank III site here on MySpace, and thanks to Declared Ungovernable for sniffing it out. I got something else to say here, just so it’s set in stone, and it is not aimed at any particular person or situation, but it’s something […]
First of all, if you did not catch all of the news about it all over the bulletin board, Hank Williams legendary steel guitar player Don Helms died yesterday. I’d done a blog on him about a month ago after he suffered a minor heart attack, and you can read it by clicking here. Most […]
They finally released a track list for the new Hank III Collector’s Tin available for pre-order now, and coming out on August 19th. The first tracks are as you would expect, in order how they were released on CD. But check out the last tracks: 40. Down In Houston41. I Could Never Be Ashamed Of […]
First, I get to toot my own horn, ’cause sometime a few days ago this blog passed the 10,000 mark for page hits! At posting I had 10,340 total hits on the blog. That’s not too bad for only being around for 3 1/2 months. Thanks to EVERYONE for reading, subscribing, and all that stuff, […]
So this is another installment of news that is important, but no specific topic is big enough to support a whole blog, so here we go: Bob Wayne’s Working Man: (Bob Wayne with Hank III’s famous Guild) If you’ve browsed my comments section lately, you might’ve seen that I got confirmation that Bob Wayne is […]
Judd Films and Neltner Creative make up what you could call Hank III’s Creative Department. If you don’t know about them, you should check them out. Judd Films: This is Blake Judd and Keith Neltner hanging out on the stage of the Opry mother church. Judd films from Kentucky is a huge supporter of Hank […]
Since I was traveling and moving a lot of this week I kind of fell behind the news cycle, so here’s some stuff to get you caught up. New Tim Pop Country Podcast TIM POP LIVE has a new all country podcast out you should check out. Music from Hank III, Bob Wayne, and old […]
curb – (n.) a barrier, designed to keep good stuff from the masses. That’s how a new article about Hank III and the Free Hank III movement starts out in this month’s edition of the Hill Country Happenings . Gordon Ames, one of the DJ’s on Revolution Radio is the author. Revolution Radio is a […]
Holy shit. I just got done watching one of the best underground music documentaries I’ve ever seen. It Features: –Hank III, including live performances, commentary, and a TOUR OF THE HAUNTED RANCH !!! –Joe Buck commentary and live performances. — Joe Buck Giving a tour of downtown Nashville, including Music Row, The Country Music Hall […]
ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL ?!?! Well your ass will have to wait till September. This is not going to be a roasting of Hank Williams Jr. I know that lately it seems like he’s whoring himself at every turn on CMT, and that he hangs out with Kid Rock and all that. But […]
So my plan for today was to to roast the limp dicks and lushes who won awards at Sunday’s American Country Music Awards, but then I heard from this dude: He is a DJ at Revolution FM and the host of the ‘Big G’s Texas Roadshow.’ Revolution FM has radio stations all over Central and […]
If you have found your way to this dark corner of the internet, then you probably hate how homogenized radio has become. And if you were asked what you would like to hear on the radio, you would probably say you wanted to hear the great old stuff from Hank Sr. and Johnny Cash, as […]
Tim Pop Live Podcast Mentions the Free Hank III Movement ! All of you should go to timpoplive.com and listen to his last two podcasts: 87 & 88. BOTH mention the Free Hank III Movement, including our assault on Curb’s MySpace site. His next podcast is also going to be an ALL COUNTRY PODCAST, and […]
So let’s face it, modern radio is made to appeal to the widest possible audience and the least common denominator, which is not you or me, but the pimpled high school girl looking for something to lip sinc to in front of her bathroom mirror, or for the rich college frat boy to have on […]
+ = This week Curb Records cash cow recording artist Tim McGraw released a new single with famed glam/hair rock androgynous, spandexed-out, lipsticked-up superband Def Leppard. McGraw, trying to save the last gasps of a dying career, sings on the song and is also given co-writer credits. If you haven’t heard it, save your .99 […]