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Straight to Hell
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0715187886926
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Label: Bruc Records
Manufacturer: Bruc Records
MPN: 78869
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: Bruc Records
Release Date: February 28, 2006
Studio: Bruc Records
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Editorial Review:
A new album from Hank Williams III is always a revelation: first, because it came out at all (his relationship with his label is as stormy as the marriage of his legendary grandparents); and second, because of its content and execution. So it's something of a miracle to see a 2-CD set of some of III's most hardcore Hellbilly (as opposed to the relentless screaming of his Assjack), especially as a number of the songs had been scheduled to appear on his unreleased 2003 album Thrown Out of the Bar. Hank III calls the new offering--recorded mostly on a $500 machine, for a DIY sound--a "thrill ride into a life of sin." This may explain the fact that Straight to Hell, which opens with some old-fashioned gospel and abruptly ends with the sound of a belly-laughing Satan, comes with a parental advisory sticker. He earns it, all right, especially on "Dick in Dixie," which is not a song about a man named Richard. As usual, III spends a lot of time pointing out what's wrong with Nashville; worshiping pills, weed, and wine; and self-mythologizing. But when he gets down to business, putting his graddaddy's bray on such songs of misery as "Angel of Sin," well, all is forgiven. III also gets big points for the second disc's 42-minute hidden track, a self-indulgent but brilliant pastiche of sound comprised of a Hank Sr. song ("I Could Never Be Ashamed of You"), snippets of a Wayne "The Train" Hancock tune, a fragment of a song III wrote with ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons, a little Cheech and Chong, as well as assorted sounds of a speeding train, runaway horses, pig snorts, a gunshot, and some hellfire-and-brimstone preaching. A drug-laced dream? The soundtrack to that journey to Hades of the album title? Damned interesting, either way. --Alanna Nash
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Hank III does it again!
Outlaw country at its best. i've had this album for 2 years now and still cant get enough. Hank 3 can't be touched, he is one of a kind. His F*** you attitude makes it even better. just wish he'd release a new album soon.
Rating: - Modern Day Outlaw
I can't imagine a more poignant middle finger to the Nashville music establishment than this album. It's both good and bad at the same time: good in that it is a spirited, irreverent tribute to Hank III's country heroes and the music and style they represented and bad in that in order to show yourself as an outsider, with talent, you have to be the direct opposite of the sappy pop-country that Nashville thinks we should be getting.
This album grows on you with the songs like Country ... Read More
Rating: - The Real Deal
I don't care what the so-called critics say, Hank III is the "real deal" to me. He's got his Grandfather's looks and voice and his own way of delivering the goods. It must have been those pills he took. Carry on, Hank.
Rating: - Best cd I have heard in a looooooong time
Best cd I have heard in a long time in ANY genre.
If the record companies put out more albums like this, maybe they wouldn't be whining about losing money. I just wish that the radio stations could play it. The rock stations could maybe get away with it. If country stations tried, the FCC would send EVERYBODY to satellite radio.
That said, this should be required listening for any rock band starting out today. This one cd has more attitude than the entire catalogs of any ten ... Read More
Rating: - Tells it like it is...whether THEY like it or not!
After three generations, could one feel so close to the style and strings that made Hank Williams such a star in country western music? Hank III seems to grab a handful of his grandfather's attitude and sound and leapfrog his dad into the 21st century with all the raw, genuine lyrical lashings one could imagine. Make no mistake about it; this album will make anyone feel like they are having a major "old school" experience while still being able to muse at the modern day snippets that are found throughout ... Read More
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