Top 3 Country Songs of the 00's: #2

Today's pick is from Hank Williams III. Hank has not only the name, but also a bucketload of talent. Lovesick, Broke, and Drifting is a fantastic album filled with the kind of old-fashioned drinkin', fightin', and lovin' songs that made country music great but are rarely heard anymore. Hank appears to have gone slightly off the rails of late: his most recent album, Straight to Hell, features one disc of drinkin', lovin' and fightin' songs (of which "Pills I Took" is the best), and one disc of annoying soundscape stuff: crying babies, trains going by, etc., interspersed with the best songs on the record. It's all one track, so you can't just get to the good stuff without the Revolution #9 Stuff. Also, there's a bunch of stuff in the booklet about Hank's association with the Church of Satan. (insert cuckoo clock sound here).Anyway, this is an incredibly beautiful heartbroken drinking song. Sometimes when you're down, you want a happy song to pick you up. And sometimes you just want to wallow and know that somebody else has been as low as you. This is a good one for those latter times.