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From a musical standpoint, Damn Right, Rebel Proud is every bit as solid as "Straight to Hell;"...But lyrically, too much of the time all Hank has to tell us is he's messed up and ready to rearrange some faces.
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Hank Williams III certainly isn’t the hillbilly Shakespeare. Hell, he isn’t even the hillbilly Alexander Pope. But he gets the job done.
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MojoThough he can give good ballad he mostly sticks to what suits his gritty vocal and his attitude best: speed-grass. [Dec 2008, p.108]
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The subject matter is well-trod, but Hank III keeps things engaging, thanks to a country-punk sound with a strange bent.
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Damn Right Rebel Proud seethes with an energy and a perspective that's too often lacking today, and it reaffirms that it's far more than just his name that makes Williams one of the genre's most vital artists.
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Hank Williams III has always respected his lineage, but he gives it even more love at the outset of his poignant and pugnacious sixth album.
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There are more signs he also got some of his granddaddy’s talent for mapping complex emotions with a few economical strokes of the pen. In Damn Right Rebel Proud he careens from the stone country remorse of 'I Wish I Knew' to the psychobilly ode to the truck-driving man of 'H8 Line' to the 10-minute, three-movement nose-thumbing epic 'P.F.F.' offered in tribute to G.G. Allin.
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RobE.Nov 22, 2008Kicks ass unlike most country "outlaw" sell outs.