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About Hank Williams III
Hometown
Nashville, TN, United States
Born
December 12, 1972
Genre
Country
Born Shelton Hank Williams, the singer-songwriter adopted the moniker Hank III (or Hank3) when he started playing country, telling his punk music peers, “If I’m gonna do [it], I’m gonna milk it.”
∙ Williams said he’d avoided his family’s country music legacy until finding out that he had a son and owed years of child support—so he hit the Branson, Missouri, concert circuit to pay off the debt.
∙ Hank 3’s recording debut, Three Hanks: Men with Broken Hearts, featured the voices of three generations of Williamses singing Hank Sr.’s tunes.
∙ He cut a version of his legendary grandfather’s “I’m a Long Gone Daddy” for the 2001 Grammy Award-winning Hank Williams tribute album, Timeless.
∙ Beginning in 2002, he played bass in the heavy metal supergroup Superjoint Ritual, cofounded by Pantera vocalist Phil Anselmo and Eyehategod guitarist Jimmy Bower.
∙ True to his outlaw heritage, in 2006 he released Straight to Hell, the first-ever country album with a parental advisory sticker (although a clean version was also produced).
∙ In 2011, he launched his label Hank3 by releasing four albums in three different genres—hellbilly, doom rock, and “cattle core”—all on the same day.
Hank Williams III has also released music as a member of Superjoint, Arson Anthem Assjack.
Musical InfluencesHank Williams III's musical influences include Dwight Yoakam, Hank Williams, Johnny Paycheck and more.
Influenced by Hank Williams IIIHank Williams III has influenced the music of Jack Lorry, Purls, Keef Caben and more.
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