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Straight to Hell (album)

Straight to Hell
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Studio album by Hank Williams III
Released February 28, 2006 (2006-02-28)
Recorded December 2004 – January 2005
Genre Country, country rock
Length 1:27:56
Label Bruc
Producer
Hank Williams III chronology
Lovesick, Broke and Driftin''
(2002)
Straight to Hell
(2006)
Damn Right, Rebel Proud
(2008)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4/5 stars link
Mxdwn.com (very favorable) link

Straight to Hell is the third studio album by American country music/punk artist Hank Williams III. It was Williams' first release since settling a contract dispute with Curb Records and was one of the first releases on Curb's Bruc Records imprint. It was also the first ever country music release to merit both a parental advisory sticker on the package and a clean version of the album for more conservative retail outlets like Wal-Mart, due to language more suited to Williams' punk rock side and some repeated drug and alcohol references. On his website, Williams encourages fans to support independent record outlets that are more willing to stock the uncensored version of the album.

Espousing the Do-it-yourself (DIY) ethic more associated with punk rock, Williams recorded the double album at what was referred to in the liner notes as "a house with a good wooden room in East Nashville" (recently revealed to be the house Williams's steel player, Andy Gibson, was living in at the time) with a $400 Korg D 1600 digital workstation, handling producing and engineering duties along with his longtime Damn Band members JoeBuck and Andy Gibson, although instead of a "Produced and Engineered by..." credit, the Williams/Buck/Gibson triad was instead credited with "Settin' up the mics, turnin' the knobs and recording this record". The results would inspire Williams to state that every musician should own their own workstation in order to take full control of their own music.

The first disc features Williams and his Damn Band along with a handful of professional guest musicians, and includes several tracks that Williams had been performing for years in his live show, including the infamous anti-pop-country anthem "Dick In Dixie" (better known to longtime Williams fans as "Let's Put The Dick Back In Dixie And The Cunt Back In Country", and omitted from the clean version of the album entirely). Also notable on the album is "Not Everybody Likes Us", where Williams openly insults Kid Rock, pointing out that neither Rock's association with Williams's father, Hank Williams Jr., nor Rock's being a "Yankee" would ever make him "the son of Hank".


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