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Straight to Hell
by: Hank Williams III

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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0715187886926
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Label: Bruc Records
Manufacturer: Bruc Records
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: Bruc Records
Release Date: February 28, 2006
Sales Rank: 1934
Studio: Bruc Records

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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. So it's something of a miracle to see a 2-CD set of some of III's most hardcore Hellbilly (as opposed to the relentless screaming of his Assjack), especially as a number of the songs had been scheduled to appear on his unreleased 2003 album Thrown Out of the Bar. 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. He earns it, all right, especially on 'Dick in Dixie,' which is not a song about a man named Richard. As usual, III spends a lot of time pointing out what's wrong with Nashville; worshiping pills, weed, and wine; and self-mythologizing. But when he gets down to business, putting his graddaddy's bray on such songs of misery as 'Angel of Sin,' well, all is forgiven. III also gets big points for the second disc's 42-minute hidden track, a self-indulgent but brilliant pastiche of sound comprised of a Hank Sr. song ('I Could Never Be Ashamed of You'), snippets of a Wayne 'The Train' Hancock tune, a fragment of a song III wrote with ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons, a little Cheech and Chong, as well as assorted sounds of a speeding train, runaway horses, pig snorts, a gunshot, and some hellfire-and-brimstone preaching. A drug-laced dream? The soundtrack to that journey to Hades of the album title? Damned interesting, either way. --Alanna Nash

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- Hank III does it again!
Outlaw country at its best. i've had this album for 2 years now and still cant get enough. Hank 3 can't be touched, he is one of a kind. His F*** you attitude makes it even better. just wish he'd release a new album soon.

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- Modern Day Outlaw
I can't imagine a more poignant middle finger to the Nashville music establishment than this album. It's both good and bad at the same time: good in that it is a spirited, irreverent tribute to Hank III's country heroes and the music and style they represented and bad in that in order to show yourself as an outsider, with talent, you have to be the direct opposite of the sappy pop-country that Nashville thinks we should be getting.

This album grows on you with the songs like Country Heroes, Low Down, Pills I Took, and Angel of Sin. Why can't you hear this coming out Nashville? This is great road trip music.

Should you be worried about losing your religion listening to this album? Well, I think it's like when they issue a tornado watch--the possibility is there, but most of the time things are unchanged as before.

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- The Real Deal
I don't care what the so-called critics say, Hank III is the "real deal" to me. He's got his Grandfather's looks and voice and his own way of delivering the goods. It must have been those pills he took. Carry on, Hank.

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- Best cd I have heard in a looooooong time
Best cd I have heard in a long time in ANY genre.

If the record companies put out more albums like this, maybe they wouldn't be whining about losing money. I just wish that the radio stations could play it. The rock stations could maybe get away with it. If country stations tried, the FCC would send EVERYBODY to satellite radio.

That said, this should be required listening for any rock band starting out today. This one cd has more attitude than the entire catalogs of any ten bands on the radio. They are too busy selling out for the bucks. Hank III may get famous (Infamous?), but he'll never get rich. Somehow, I don't think he cares.

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