This will probably not be my most popular blog, but there’s some things I want to get on the record as saying. I am also going to talk a little bit about myself, which is something I vowed to do very very little of when I started this thing. But I want to talk a […]
On Memorial Day, I thought I’d pay tribute to a song by a fallen oldtimer. One of the things I like about Shelton Hank III, and one of the things I’m sure you like is his open rebellion against pop country music. When you hear songs like ‘Trashville,’ Dick in Dixie,’ and ‘Not Everybody Likes […]
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 […]
I wanted to write some stuff about the AMCA’s that happened on Sunday, but to be honest, I can’t find the passion to. We all know that Kenny Chesney has no dick, and that the fact that he’s won ‘Entertainer of the Year’ the last three years is a joke. And there’s a reason that […]
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 […]
The title of this blog is the name of the sixth track of Damn Right, Rebel Proud , still waiting to be released by Curb Records. Truth is I’m a little pissed right now, and I’m sorry this shit is so long, but that’s the way it is. Just like everyone else I’m eager for […]
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 […]
So since I am a ‘friend’ of Curb Records, I get a the occasional friend request from some pop country fucktard who seems to gloss over the fact that what I’m doing here boils down to a ‘fuck pop country campaign.’ For example, look at this fairy tale fucker who just sent me a friend […]
It is said that in this world of ours 1% of people are actually pushing the cart, and the rest are just riding in the back. Well Darren of Montana Section 08 Productions is one of that 1%. This guy is a promoter up in Montana, but in truth he’s done so much more for […]
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 […]
If you think that Hank Williams Sr. is the only person to get crossways with the Opry, check out this sordid history: DeFord Bailey: DeFord Bailey was the most influential harmonica player of the early 20th Century, and is known as the ‘Lost Legend of the Grand Ole Opry.’ The Opry owes this dude a […]
All right all of you Hellbillies and Hellbetties, consider yourselves ORGANIZED! To help keep this thing moving forward, I’ve just launched freehank3.org. I did this for a few reasons:1. Any knucklehead can start a MySpace page, but it takes a little more effort (and $$$) to start a website. This will hopefully give more legitimacy […]
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 […]
There’s a great new article featuring Shelton Hank III at Cashville411.com about the Reinstate Hank Sr. movement, with lots of info about how and why he started it, and what his plans are with it. That cashville411.com site is a cool site too, esp. if you’re a Nashville resident. I’ve found myself reading stuff there […]
While poking around the Waylon Jennings MySpace page last night, I found this bad-ass picture, with a comment under it reading simply, ‘Let’s go save country music.’ So what I say to all of you is, let’s go save country music. I’ve gotten a few messages wondering why we are not targeting Curb’s other MySpace […]
I’ve gotten a lot of questions about this, and so I just wanted to clarify this for people: Hank III cannot participate in any ‘Fuck Curb’ campaigns or say anything negative publicly about Curb because of an agreement he signed to get Straight to Hell released. For those of you that don’t know, Straight to […]
For those of you that haven’t seen this yet, there is a new documentary coming out in the Fall of 2008 on the great HASIL ADKINS with commentary from Hank III and Joe Buck. To see the movie’s MySpace page click here, and thanks to CuzN Wildweed for working his ass off trying to spread […]
The great Shelton Hank Williams III was not the first Curb Records recording artist to start a ‘Fuck Curb’ campaign. It was none other than the horse-faced Leann Rimes. If you think I’m higher than a Georgia pine, read on. Now before I get started, if you think I have ANY love for Leann Rimes, […]
You seriously gotta love Curb Records. Not only because they are blowing thousands of dollars on a protracted lawsuit so they don’t have to release the great Shelton Hank III’s new album, when the could be SELLING it and MAKING money, but they’re also such a big bloated business bureaucracy they have no friggin’ clue […]
I want everyone to know that I did not start this shit as a lark, or to try to get pub for myself, or for any other reason. I started it to FREE HANK III and I am serious about this. Some other reasons I decided to do this was to: 1. Let Hank know […]
So this isn’t about what the great Shelton Hank Williams III likes to smoke his dubage in, it’s more about his voice. As the great GALEA pointed out in a previous blog, III’s been having some serious voice issues the past few years. I don’t think this is the reason they are pushing back the […]
If Hank Williams had a daughter, her name would be Rachel Brooke. Like so many of us, Rachel Brooke was born in the wrong time. Her classic style, and her simple and poetic songs fit much more snugly in an oval picture frame of tarnished metal and smoky glass than on CMT or Clear Channel […]
When I was doing the research for my Nashville vs. Austin vs. Bakersfield blog, I came across this description: “If some mad scientist and his assistants had conspired to take the components and stitch together an archetypal country singer, they would have come up with Hank Williams: the twig-thin, bone-and-gristle fame dressed in a faux-cowboy […]