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HANK III to release 4 albums on Sept. 6th
HANK3 CHARTS NEW TERRITORY
WITH FOUR-RECORD RELEASE DUE OUT SEPTEMBER 6
Expect Country, Doom-Rock and Speed Metal with Cattle Callin
LOS ANGELES, CA - THURSDAY, June 23, 2011 -- With his own new label, Hank3 Records, and the sense that he has thrown off the chains holding him back
creatively, Shelton Hank Williams III, aka Hank3, is coming out swinging this year with the
release of four records on September 6 - that's right - FOUR.
The unprecedented launch, in a distribution partnership with Megaforce Records (MRI), features a broad range of music that bridges more than one
head-thumping genre - a familiar theme that true Hank3 fans have embraced for years. Ghost to a
Ghost/Guttertown, a double-album set, is a straight-shooting country collection, flavored with Hank3's trademark hellbilly sound, and heavily weighted
with Cajun influence (especially on Guttertown) and an ambient, lonesome mood - and a few very special
guests.
Two more releases are Attention Deficit Domination and 3 Bar Ranch Cattle Callin - intensely metal-driven records on which Hank3 plays all
instruments. Attention Deficit Domination is a pressure-dropping, doom rock statement that has been anticipated by his hardcore fans for years, and
Cattle Callin explores a new mind-bending "Cattle Core" sound, featuring Hank3's speed metal woven in and around actual cattle auctioneering.
All three projects were recorded at The Haunted Ranch, Hank3's home and studio that lies on the outskirts of Nashville - a fitting place since the
town has never really known what to do with this grandson of the American icon. He finally parted ways with Curb
Records January 1.
"I have musical freedom. I'm able to say 'Here's my record' and I don't have to go through a million different channels just to put out a song," he
says. "It's all me now."
Hank3 wrote the lion's share of the songs that appear on the 41-track Ghost to a Ghost. The players are Andy Gibson on steel guitar and banjo, who
also aided in its recording, David McElfresh on fiddle and mandolin, Zach Shedd on standup bass, Daniel
Mason on banjo, super-picker Johnny Hiland on guitar, Billy Contreras on fiddle, and Rory Hoffman on accordion.
Guest appearances include the mythical Tom Waits on the haunted "Fadin Moon" from Guttertown and on the Ghost to a Ghost title track, Alan King of
Hellstomper, Les Claypool of Primus fame and beyond, Dave Sherman, Troy Medlin and Hank3's dog,
Trooper.
Cuts such as "Guttertown," "Ridin The Wave," and "The Devil's Movin In" on Ghost to A Ghost, and "Goin to Guttertown," "The Low Line," and "I'll Save
My Tears" on Guttertown highlight both the excellent musicianship on the records, and Hank3's
unmistakable, confident vocals.
Attention Deficit Domination allows the listener into Hank3's crunching, metal world of the heavy and the slow, complete with his renowned,
fundamental percussion. The nine tracks hardly allow you to get up from the floor. With songs such as "I Feel Sacrificed" and the tormented "Livin
Beyond Doom," Hank3 works a ground somewhere between devastation and high theatre.
"Both A.D.D. and Cattle Callin are very intense. It's very manic," Hank3 says. "It's hard to follow, even for the guys I play with. I'm playing
everything on these two. It's very complex."
There are 23 tracks on Cattle Callin, featuring Hank3's driving, formidable guitar attack, with instrumentation build around the auctioneering and, in
some cases, his own higherregister vocal treatment laid over the top. Metal fans will notice some tongue-in-cheek humor with titles such as "Heavy
Cattle" and "Angus of Death." Also, fans of bluegrass will love the banjo-driven "Cattle Callin Lonesome Blues," featuring Mason.
"I was raised around it [cattle auctioneering] and it's pretty amazing how fast these guys are," Hank3 says. "Hip-hop has looped auctioneers.
Bluegrass has messed around with it a little bit. This has never been done in the heavy metal world."
The September release of all three projects represents a new birth for Hank3, and he's happy to have the chance.
"Megaforce Records has helped me with my vision to do something that's never been done before," he says. "They're handling my distribution, and I
wanted to flood the market and do everything different. I wanted to come out of the gate strong.
"I'm opening up the mind a little bit and bringing some different styles together."
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Oh no! He's going the way of Ryan Adams.
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goddamn!
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looking forward to this!
record collectors are pretentious assholes
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Awesome
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I'll def. be buying the country shit, but I'll download the other shit before I buy. I didn't care for the Assjack album he put out much at all. Had
like 2 songs that I thought were pretty decent and the rest of the album just kinda blurred together with nothing really sticking out.
But all of this certainly sounds damned interesting.
I just hope he doesn't end up making Curb look like they actually knew what they were doing in being selective about what songs they would put out,
etc. Hopefully, he proves that he can "edit" himself a bit better than, as Mark Lind mentioned his name, Ryan Adams.
While Ryan has his moments of pure genius, the guy just seems uncapable of properly editing himself. If Adams writes 60 songs, he wants to release 60
songs. Never mind that 30 of them might be mediocre as hell. So yeah, I hope III doesn't fall into this same trap now that he has his total "artistic
freedom"...
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I can't get into his metal stuff at all, but I dig the country stuff.
‘Do you know what a love letter is? It’s a bullet from a fucking gun. Straight through your heart.’
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I look forward to the country stuff, even though he has not really put a good country album since Straight To Hell.
Over all he is very over rated, but I do enjoy some of his tunes.
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I thought after straight to hell he had some great songs in those albums, while others were definitely playing out the whole drinking song thing a bit
too much, though he wasn't gonna give his best material to Curb. They royally fucked him by overproducing the Assjack album behind his back last
minute, & I could definitely tell, I personally didn't like the production. As far as his metal/punk stuff, I didn't really care a whole lot for some
of the Assjack album, but I'm really looking forward to the doom stuff
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just bought Ghost To Ghost (the country album) on vinyl.....getting ready to throw it on right now
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Got Ghost To Ghost and Guttertown. Have no listened to them yet, but will give my two cents once I do.
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Have never listened to him
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I really like most of Ghost To Ghost, the 1st album (it's 3 records total, 1 1/2 sides each album).....some cool spooky shit among other stuff. The
other album, Guttertown, is a lotta weird background noise shit kinda like the second part of Straight To Hell, but it's interlaced with zydeco
squeezebox songs
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I really dug Ghost to a Ghost and Attention Deficit Domination, fixing to throw on Guttertown.
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I'm a jerk. All night,I'm seeing Sentrand and thinking "Where do I know that guy from?".
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Just got home from Seeing Hank 3 in Austin. Still haven't listened to any of the 3 Bar Ranch stuff recorded, but it did work well live in my opinion.
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shit i gotta get this
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