On Blake Shelton Pondering Retirement
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The best in country music don’t make music because they want to. They make country music because they have to. It’s not a means to an end financially. It’s a requisite emotionally and spiritually. Making country music is how a true country music artist unburdens their soul.
Pop Country Gets It’s Ass Handed To It !!!
0 CommentsCheck This Out: I’m not lying when I tell you that without asking Mr. Google, I could not name you one song, not even one song by Kenny Chesney or Keith Urban. I just don’t pay attention to pop country. But the other day when I was sitting in Subway enjoying a scrumptious footlong for […]
Free Hank III News Roundup Vol. 3
0 CommentsSo this is another installment of news that is important, but no specific topic is big enough to support a whole blog, so here we go: Bob Wayne’s Working Man: (Bob Wayne with Hank III’s famous Guild) If you’ve browsed my comments section lately, you might’ve seen that I got confirmation that Bob Wayne is […]
Waylon Jennings & The Day the Music Died
9 CommentsSome of you might know this story, and some of you don’t. Some of you will find it interesting, some of you won’t. But I felt inclined to include it here because it involves one of our country heroes: Waylon Jennings. Waylon got his break into the music scene by playing bass for Buddy Holly, […]
Hank Williams Steel Guitar Player & Big Wayne IN YOUR FACE!!!
0 CommentsThis is Big Wayne: Big Wayne likes beer. He also likes Hank Williams and Hank Williams III. But Big Wayne is confused. He doesn’t understand why Hank Williams is not a member of the Grand Ole Opry, even though they use his image, likeness, and songs to promote themselves. He doesn’t understand why a man […]
The Skinny on the Hank III Tour
2 CommentsBefore I get started on the tour thing, I got some house cleaning items: 1. If you don’t know who Restless in Amsterdam is then you should, and if you do, please stop by and send her a quick message. Her computer is on the fritz, and she can’t participate as much as she’d like […]
Alright, Free Hank III is PISSED !!!
1 CommentCAUTION: This Blog Contains HEAVY Language, That Might Be Offensive to Some. So I am PISSED! And I’m not only pissed, but I’m pissed about being pissed, because that’s all I seem to be able to be these days. I’m getting pretty fucking tired of defending Hank III to his own damn fans. I write […]
Other Things You Can Do To Help III & Sr.
0 CommentsYou know it’s funny. When I started this blog there were some that thought there wouldn’t be enough stuff going down to blog every day, or even every other day. Today I had three different things I wanted to write about, and then something else came up and I decided to write about something completely […]
October is a Long Way Away (+new site to check out)
0 CommentsI know a lot of you are still miffed even though we finally got a release date for Damn Right, Rebel Proud simply because Curb Records has been jacking Shelton around for so long, and I know even more of you are miffed that we got to wait four months for it. Listen, all I […]
Release Date ’Damn Right, Rebel Proud October 21, 2008 !
0 CommentsYeee Hawww !!! Pat yourself on the back people! From hank3.com: “The great state of Tennessee is gonna need to change it’s state flag from 3 stars to III bars soon! The Hank III family is proud to announce the release of III’s long awaited new album, “Damn Right and Rebel Proud” asOctober 21, 2008. […]
Independent Film, Macabre Art, and a Son of a Son
0 CommentsJudd Films and Neltner Creative make up what you could call Hank III’s Creative Department. If you don’t know about them, you should check them out. Judd Films: This is Blake Judd and Keith Neltner hanging out on the stage of the Opry mother church. Judd films from Kentucky is a huge supporter of Hank […]
The Grand Ole Opry’s Phone Number is 1-800-733-6779
1 CommentThe phone number to the Grand Ole Opry is 1-800-733-6779, and the local number is 615-871-6779. Please call them and tell them you want to know why Hank Williams Sr. has not been reinstated, even though it was their plan to reinstate him before he died. Then call them again. And then call them the […]
What Makes Outlaw Country
2 CommentsSince it is a slow lazy Saturday, I thought I would geek out on a little country music history. There are lots of names for the different styles of country music: Bluegrass, Progressive, Pop, Alt., Roots, & Outlaw to name a few. Dale Watson, who was featured in a new article this week likes to […]