Hank Willliams III "Pop Country really sucks"

[Deberg_1990]

Ive never heard any of his music. Now im intrigued. Anyone listened and liked his stuff?


NEW YORK – A mixture of yodeling and ear-piercing screams can be heard in the distance as Shelton Hank Williams, more commonly known as Hank Williams III or Hank3, gears up for a four-hour set at the Gramercy Theatre in New York City.

The grandson of the legendary Hank Williams and an artist in his own right with a strong cult following, Williams could easily fill much larger venues, but the singer refuses to charge his fans more than $30 a ticket, opting for more intimate settings.

“I just always played to play,” he told FOX411 before taking the stage. “For someone like me, if I ever had huge success or whatever that is, I would just play smaller venues two to three nights in a row just to keep the intimacy level there and that’s my take on it, but it just depends what you’re going for.”

Donning a cowboy hat, the 41-year-old bears an eerie resemblance to his “Your Cheating Heart”-singing granddaddy. But covered in tattoos and metal chains, Hank3 is not his grandfather and he has worked hard to develop his own sound often referred to as “hellbilly.”

“Each Hank Williams has always had an independent streak,” the country rebel said. “I’ve always known the kind of songs I wanted to sing and play.”

A punk rocker-turned country singer, Williams refused to play the “Nashville game” and after many years fighting his record label in court for stifling his creativity, Hank3 was finally free to pursue his vision: a combination of traditional country music and heavy metal albums.

“It’s really tough – if you’re on a major label and they want you to have a number one song, you need to do what they say,” he said. “I still believe in hope and that a good song will push itself.”

While the “Country Heroes” singer is known for blending punk and metal sounds with country, he says 70 percent of his music “is true to the sound of country music,” he has some harsh words for pop country.

He describes his disdain for today’s popular country music is clear in his song “Dick in Dixie.”

'”The kind of country I hear nowadays is a bunch of f---ing sh-t to me,” he sings. “They say that I'm ill-mannered, that I'm gonna self-destruct, but if you know what I'm thinkin' you'll know that pop country really sucks.”

Williams isn’t opposed to new sounds in country – he just wants the Nashville scene to start accepting different kinds of artists into the fold.

“It seems that pop country has stuck around a long time,” he noted. “We’ve got to be progressing – new sounds have to happen – but it’s not just this [pop] sound and nothing else. It just doesn’t seem [the industry] is giving the underdogs much of a chance.”

Hank3 complained in his song, “we’re losing all the outlaws” that are being replaced by “kids from a manufactured town” that have “no idea about sorrow and woe because they’re all just too busy kissing ass on Music Row.”

What is country music to the man who was a country music royalty before he learned to sing a note?

“To me, country music is emotions, certain harmonies,” he said when asked to describe what country music is to him. “But it’s all in the emotions – a lot of good times, a lot of hard times.”

He said there are very few artists singing “true” country music today, but Hank3 is uncertain what’s in store for the genre that is his family’s legacy.

“It’s really going to be interesting to see what’s going to happen with the future of country music.”

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[Tombstone RJ]

HW3 plays metal:

[MOhillbilly]

You don't have to go far these days to find country music that isn't top 40.

Or the same shit for the 9000000000th time

I don't really dig hank iii

[RickObie]

He comes to San Diego at least once a year - he's great live and his music is even better.

[Iowanian]

i probably have 50 of his songs on itunes but I have to be in the right mood.

H3 is considered red dirt genre' by most I know, and red dirt is what Country music really should be.

[excessive]

Originally Posted by KcMizzou

I was drunk
The day my mom
Got out of prison

And I went to pick her up in the rain

[PornChief]

also my dog died, my car won't start and the wife left me look out here's the sheriff

[redshirt32]

Never heard any H3
But his Grandpa Hank SR
Sure could write and sing like no other

The Angel Of Death
written and recorded by Hank Williams
[3/4 time]

C F C
In the great book of John you're warned of the day
G7
When you'll be laid beneath the cold clay
C F C
The angel of death will come from the sky
G7 C
And claim your poor soul when the time comes to die

F C
When The angel of death comes down after you
G7
Can you smile and say that you have been true
C F C
Can you truthfully say with your dying breath
G7 C
That you're ready to meet the angel of death

F C
When the lights all grow dim and the dark shadows creep
G7
And then your loved ones are gathered to weep
C F C
Can you face them and say with your dying breath
G7 C
That you're ready to meet the angel of death

Repeat #2

[Easy 6]

If I want to hear real country music, I'll check out Bluegrass Junction on XM... most everything else is too much pop or too much rock.

[Graystoke]

Hank III is more like his Grandad then his Dad. He is very original and raw.
I agree with him. I like him, but you have to be in the mood.

[InChiefsHeaven]

Originally Posted by PornChief

also my dog died, my truck won't start and the wife left me look out here's the sheriff

FYP.

Country music largely sucks. Not all of it, but almost all of it. My wife loves it of course, so I have to put up with it sometimes. But sometimes a song comes on, the lyrics are so freakin' stupid I just have to turn it off.

[Prison Bitch]

Today's country music is superior to the old version, no doubt about that, and is far better than pop music (Lady Gaga, "Timber!", "You're gonna hear me ROAR!", etc etc)

[Pablo]

Originally Posted by Prison Bitch

Today's country music is superior to the old version, no doubt about that, and is far better than pop music (Lady Gaga, "Timber!", "You're gonna hear me ROAR!", etc etc)

You cranking up the Blake Shelton and Luke Bryan in your car PB?

"Truck, YEAH! Party, YEAH! Good ol' time on the backroad, YEAH!"

[Prison Bitch]

No, I'm cranking up "TIMBER!"

[underEJ]

I've seen him a few times through the years. He changes alot, but there is still a style that runs through all of it that is recognizable as his whether he is playing rockabilly, metal or country. He can croon too if he feels like it and it is pretty eerie. As most have said, gotta be in the mood for it. He was supported by the punk scene for quite a while due to his record deal issues. He couldn't put out music in the mainstream and his family was kind of responsible for the shitty state of affairs. Don't know about now, but back then he was estranged from his family during the legal fight. He's just a guy who wants to do his own thing and his name is equal parts door opener and cell slammer. Interesting story even if you don't like the music.

[MahiMike]

I must be of the pop country persuasion. I hate old style country. Now I find myself stopping on a country station. Woulda never happened years ago.