::: October 10 :::
HANK3 ANNOUNCES LEG TWO OF HIS NORTH AMERICAN TOUR
IN SUPPORT OF THREE - COUNT 'EM THREE - NEW ALBUMS
LOS ANGELES, CA (Monday, October 10, 2011) - Armed with an unprecedented three new albums - the double-country Ghost to a Ghost/Guttertown, the doom-rock Attention Deficit Domination, and the speed-metal Cattle Callin - that were released on September 6 through his very own, recently-launched record label Hank3 Records, Hank Williams III, now and forever to be known as Hank3, will kick off the second leg of his 2011 North American tour in Asheville, NC on Monday, November 7. The three-plus-week trek will play primarily in east coast cities and will include a New York date, Brooklyn's Music Hall on November 15. For ticket purchasing information, log onto www.hank3.com.
This second leg of Hank3's two-year global trek follows the near-sold-out first leg, during which he provided one of the best values in live music with his two-and-a-half-plus hour shows. One reviewer wrote, "It was one of the most energetic performances I've seen. He covered material from ten different albums, spanning four genres, and hardly took a minute to breathe before railing off song after song." There's nothing quite like a Hank3 concert where you'll see cowboys sporting Stetsons and punks with mohawks. And with the singer's influences spanning country, punk and hard rock/metal, Hank3 is a musician who makes it OK for punks and metal heads to admit that they like country music.
"I've been off the road for awhile, and I'm looking' at two years of bein' full-on dedicated to goin' out there and doin' what we do," said Hank3. "That's one of the reasons I wanted to release all of these albums at the same time, so I could just focus back on the touring again."
As his fans have come to expect, Hank3 will give everyone in attendance their money's worth by performing for anywhere from two-and-a-half to three-hour sets a night. The evening will open with a Country set, followed by a louder, rowdy Hellbilly set, culminating with a set featuring his new metal/doom band, Attention Deficit Domination.
"This is gonna be a little different for the fans who have been used to seein' Assjack for the last 10 years," Hank3 explained. "Assjack was almost fast hardcore, and ADD is slow, Melvins, sleep-oriented doom rock. So it's gonna be a lot different to see and feel, compared to what most people are used to seein' me do live."
All three of Hank3's new releases were recorded at The Haunted Ranch, Hank3's home and studio just outside of Nashville. He wrote the bulk of the songs that appear on the 30-track Ghost to a Ghost/Guttertown, a straight-shooting country collection, flavored with Hank3's trademark Hellbilly sound, and heavily weighted with Cajun influence and an ambient, lonesome mood. Ghost to a Ghost features guest appearances by Tom Waits, Alan King of Hellstomper, Les Claypool of Primus fame, Dave Sherman, Troy Medlin, and Hank3's dog, Trooper. Attention Deficit Domination allows the listener into Hank3's crunching, metal world of the heavy and the slow, complete with his renowned, fundamental percussion. The nine tracks hardly allow you to get up from the floor. The 23-track Cattle Callin features Hank3's driving, formidable guitar attack, with instrumentation built around the auctioneering (provided by legendary auctioneers Mitch Jordan and Tim Dowler) and, in some cases, his own higher-register vocal treatment laid over the top. You've never heard anything like it. "I've always taken the hard road," he added. "That's what makes us different and what gives the wide audience range of 14 to 80. Cowboys, punks, metalheads, jocks, grandmas, and the average everyday person. We bring them all together under the same roof. That's what makes us proud. That's what makes it worth it at the end of the day." |
