Article: A hankering for Hank Williams III

Country music rebel Hank Williams III returns to The Blue Note on Saturday with his band, Assjack. The descendent of country legends Hank Sr. and Hank Jr. creates his own sound by merging old-school country blues with Southern rock, always eschewing - sometimes outspokenly - the contemporary country scene offered by Nashville with its slick production and pop tendencies.

Described as "100 percent pure hellbilly," Hank III's music is the sum of his parts. Born in 1972 in Nashville, he got started in music playing the drums in punk rock bands. Hank III went on to perform with his father and, through the magic of digital recording, his long dead grandfather on the 1996 record, "Three Hanks: ...

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