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Hank Williamses

Posted over 2 years ago

Artist:
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Hank Williams III
Album:

Straight To Hell [PA] [Digipak]
Track:

Satan Is Real / Straight To Hell

OK, so there is an extreme disparity in the Williams family, at least to me. How can Hank "the original"

and Hank "three"

be SO much better than Hank "Junior"??

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etcvisitor says are you ready for some football? i know that is a question but i think it answers your question quite appropriately.

Permalink posted 01/17/2007
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dj ivi says but have you heard them sing? i can't get over how much hank 3 sounds JUST like the original. so soulful, so sweet and sexy. that twang tugging at yr dancing skirts... sure, H3 can do the metal thang, but H2 never did country as well as H1 or H2...

Permalink posted 01/17/2007
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Iren says I think a large part of it has to do with pressures in the industry... Hank Sr. was there at the start when the industry was forming.... Jr. came in when there was a lot of pressure to conform and do things the way that everyone else was, and some how it seems that he missed out on the whole Outlaw movement.... and Hank III, by the time he comes along, he's schooled in Punk Rawk and Metal as well as Country and is much more will and able to speak his mind and not play along with the industry....

Permalink posted 01/17/2007
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etcvisitor says wow it looks like all your rowdy friends are gonna comment tonight!! ha ha i had to slip that one in.

Permalink posted 01/17/2007
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jameson says "All my rowdy MOG friends are here on wednesday night" Iren you said it best and I'm gonna plead laziness here. I didn't feel like typing all of that. It definitely is generational. As far as Jr. goes, he is likely the most financially rewarded Williams. Hank Senior has proven to be more famous in death than he was in life, and III has come along in an age where the term "country music" is so muddled with blurry caricatures of "Pop-Country" and a general sense that the genre itself has fallen way off it's tracks.

Permalink posted 01/17/2007
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Creech Holler says Bosephus has some good stuff... he has some terrible shit, too. In his prime, he definitely had the ability to write anthems of The South... that's for sure: "Country State of Mind", "Country Boy Can Survive", "Outlaw Women", "Whiskey Bent and Hellbound".... those are anthems for sure. C'mon, let's all sing one together.

Permalink posted 01/19/2007
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Lyla says not being terribly into that sort of music, i actually thought that all people who referred to any hank williams at all were only referring to one, and because i thought he sucked, i realized recently that i've only ever really known about the middle one, i guess. finding out that there are actually three and that the first and seconds ones weren't so bad was mind-blowing (it was really only a few weeks ago, go figure). so now i'm overloaded with a bunch of all of their stuff, courtesy of the friend who finally set me straight, but i can't say i've really given it a listen yet. well shit, now i will.

Permalink posted 01/20/2007
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Amy Honey says i have all the Hank 1's and 3's recs... but no Hank 2. Hank 3's "Broke, Lovesick and Drifting" is a great rec.... Hank 1 breaks my heart everytime, especially "Your Cheatin' Heart". Hank 2 does not come into my picture at all.

Permalink posted 01/22/2007
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jameson says "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" is quite possibly one of the greatest songs ever written. And "My Son Calls Another Man Daddy", while virtually STARTING the country-music cliche of great song titles, is just as well-written and almost as heartbreaking as "I'm So Lonesome..." What strikes me about Hank Uno is the truth and honesty and real-life heartbreak embedded into his lyrics. He wasn't afraid of being a songwriter who expressed his true feelings of a dust-bowl depressive.

Permalink posted 01/22/2007
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Amy Honey says have you ever read the book "Yr Cheatin' Heart" by Chet Flippo? it's one of the best books i've read about Hank 1... heartbreaking and honest.

Permalink posted 01/22/2007