Available for pre-order now and coming out on August 19th is a special collector’s tin box with the 3 PREVIOUSLY RELEASED Hank III CD’s included (Risin’ Outlaw, Lovesick Broke & Driftin’, & Straight to Hell).I had seen some stuff about this new release the last few days, but was waiting to see exactly what it was, hoping that maybe it would be ‘Damn Right’ or some sort of solution to the whole Curb thing. Hank III didn’t even know about this release until today.Curb Records has done similar things with Hank Jr. And Tim McGraw, etc.
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As the grandson of and the son of, was country music royalty before he ever sang a note. But he didn't immediately follow his forebears musically, choosing instead to bang around the Southeast, playing drums in punk and hardcore combos and smoking prodigious amounts of weed before he began pursuing a career in country music. It was the outlaw spirit of his lineage, alive and unwell and floating in the bong water, and he earned a reputation as one of Nashville's biggest rebels, more than living up to his lineage.was born December 12, 1972, in Nashville, Tennessee.
Lived the life of a nomadic punk rocker early on, but that changed when a court settlement decreed that owed a large backlog of child support, and the judge instructed to find more reliable employment. Circumstances forced onto the straight and narrow, and in 1996 he signed a contract with Music City giant Curb. The label issued Three Hanks: Men with Broken Hearts, which brought the voices of all three generations of men together via the miracles of modern technology.
As for ‘Damn Right, Rebel Proud’ the official word is: ” The upcoming CD, Damn Right Rebel Proud is still under litigation with resolution hopefully coming soon.” Something I’m curious about is if this collector’s tin will count as a ‘release’ on Hank III’s contract with Curb Records.
It was about as far from what wanted as he could get and signaled the beginning of his stormy relationship with Curb.was in a tight spot. While his name, face, and uncanny vocal resemblance to his grandfather almost guaranteed him a thriving country audience, he had no patience for Nashville's squareness and rigid control.
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And his could wow a crowd with a spot-on set of gorgeous country balladry and spirited honky tonk. But could just as easily shift gears into screeching -style punk rock with his hard-rocking combo Assjack. He was the kind of anomaly most record companies couldn't stand - eminently marketable, yet defiantly unpredictable.
Curb issued 's proper debut in September 1999. Entitled, it presented 13 rough-hewn country numbers colored by 's honky tonking vocals.
And while he played his share of 'country' gigs to support it, also appeared at the 2001 Vans Warped Tour alongside punks like. The irascible also dismissed as a label-controlled fiasco almost immediately after its release. After a few years of touring and trying like mad to be released from his Curb contract, returned to wax in early 2002 with. While had featured material from outside writers, the new LP was all but for a previously released cover of 's 'Atlantic City.' He also produced, recorded, and mixed it by his lonesome in just two weeks.At this point, 's relationship with Curb became even more strained. The label refused to release his appropriately named This Ain't Country LP, which featured songs like 'Life of Sin' and 'Hellbilly.'
At the same time, Curb refused to grant the rights to issue it on his own. He and the record company reached an impasse, which only exacerbated with the 'F. Curb' T-shirts he sold through his thriving website. Thrown Out of the Bar, his third honky tonk album, was scheduled for release in 2003, as was the long-awaited This Ain't Country. Additionally, issued extremely limited-edition releases through his website (often in quantities of 100 or less) and continued to play bass in, the brutal side project of frontman. The double-disc was released in March 2006 on Bruc Records (Curb's attempt to disguise their participation in the album).
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The first CD contained songs with elements of traditional country warped to fit 's rebel attitude, while the second disc boasted only one song that featured just, his guitar, ambient noises, and a slight story that those coming down from drugs might enjoy. Ever in the outlaw mode, released in 2008. His fourth and supposedly final album for Curb, followed in the spring of 2010. And in a move that hardly pleased, Curb next repackaged This Ain't Country, the oft-bootlegged project that started the acrimony between and the label in the first place, with additional unreleased material thrown in, as in 2011. In the fall of 2011, announced he was forming his own label, Hank3 Records, and launched the imprint with three albums released at the same time:, a two-disc set of raw country tunes; a doom metal set called; and, credited to, which married recordings of cattle auctioneers with speed metal tracks. Was still touring in support of his new albums when Curb managed to get an eighth album out of a lapsed six-album contract by releasing another set of previously unreleased material, (mostly outtakes from 1999's and 2002's ) in the spring of 2012.
In October 2013, released another pair of albums through his own label, the two-disc country album, alongside the hardcore cowpunk release. Curb Records, meanwhile, continued to keep ill will flowing between themselves and their former artist;, a 27-minute album of country-oriented tracks primarily recorded for various tribute albums, was released in the spring of 2014, and a year later Curb (using the Bruc alias) dropped a punk and metal-leaning set, which was similarly pieced together from tribute albums and studio outtakes. As he had done with Curb's previous post-contract albums, encouraged his fans not to buy the albums in messages on his website and social media accounts, suggesting they burn copies borrowed from friends instead. Continuing to mine ' back catalog, Curb issued a collection in September 2017.
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