Artist : Hank Williams III
Album : Long Gone Daddy
Bitrate : 942 kbps
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Source : CD (LP)
Label : Curb Records
Year : 2012
Genre : Country
Rip date : 2013-06-21
Store date : 2012-04-17
Encoder : FLAC 1.2.1
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1. I'm A Long Gone Daddy 3:38
2. Sun Comes Up 2:56
3. The Bottle Let Me Down 2:47
4. Wreck Of The Old '97 2:57
5. Neath A Cold Gray Tomb Of Stone 2:53
6. The Wind Blew Cold 2:22
7. Good Hearted Woman 4:17
8. This Ain't Montgomery (With Joey Allcorn) 4:11
9. What They Want Me To Be 3:25
10. If The Shoe Fits (Shuffle Mix) 3:49
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33:15
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Hank Williams III and Curb Records had a contentious relationship through most
of the 14 years he was signed to the label, and Curb hasn't exactly been going
out of its way to get in his good graces since he's moved on. Long Gone Daddy
is the second "new" Hank Williams III Curb has released since his contact with
the label ran out at the end of 2010; 2011's Hillbilly Joker was a slightly
reworked version of a hardcore punk/metal album Curb refused to release when
it was originally submitted, and 2012's Long Gone Daddy is a set of old-honky
tonk tunes featuring unreleased outtakes from Williams' first two albums for
Curb, Risin' Outlaw and Lovesick, Broke and Driftin', filled out with material
drawn from various compilations and a duet with Joey Allcorn from the latter's
album 50 Years Too Late. Given the cut-and-paste nature of this album and the
fact the bulk of it was previously deemed unworthy of release, the pleasant
surprise is that Long Gone Daddy isn't bad at all. Hank III is a sure hand
with old-school honky tonk numbers, and the covers of classics by Merle
Haggard, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, and Hank's grandfather Hank Williams,
Sr. are great stuff, sung with all the twangy commitment they deserve. Hank
III's own "What They Want Me to Be," like Allcorn's "This Ain't Montgomery,"
suggests that his philosophical differences with Curb were there right from
the start in their tales of struggling against the Nashville mainstream. And
with the absurd dance remix of "If the Shoe Fits" that closes the album, the
label twists their knife into Williams one more time. For fans who prefer Hank
III's purer hillbilly style over the more rock-oriented material that has come
to dominate his work, most of Long Gone Daddy will be a short (33 minutes) and
sweet reminder of his earlier and less frenetic days, but it's difficult for
anyone who cares about Williams' music to not see this and Hillbilly Joker as
blatant displays of disrespect toward an artist who dared to follow his own
creative path.