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List Price: $7.98 | | Label: Curb Records
Salesrank: 16931
Released: September 7, 1999 |
| Our Price: $5.18 |
| Used Price: $4.05 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Risin' Outlaw Track Listing:
1. I Don't Know
2. You're the Reason
3. If the Shoe Fits
4. 87 Southbound
5. Lonesome for You
6. What Did Love Ever Do to You
7. On My Own
8. Honky Tonk Girls
9. Devil's Daughter
10. Cocaine Blues
11. Thunderstorms and Neon Signs
12. Why Don't You Leave Me Alone? [Live]
13. Blue Devil
Editorial Review:
This is what rockin' country is supposed to sound like. Shelton Hank Williams, grandson of the country music icon, shows everything he's got on "I Don't Know," his debut's opening track: breakneck fiddle; fancy picking, equal parts Nashville and Macon; flexible rhythm section; wounded, piercing vocals; and unforgiving songs of rage, recklessness, and rejection. He then spends the rest of the CD refining it, song by song. As a writer, he has a real flair for imagery and the sturdy hook, and he also has good taste in remakes. Yes, there is some posturing; occasionally it feels like his nose for trouble, sense of despair, and wild eyes spring from listening to all the right records rather than out of anyone's real life. But for the most part, Hank III seems to come by these things the old-fashioned way: he earns them. Already. If he doesn't earn too much, he's going to do great things. --John Morthland
Risin' Outlaw Reviews:
The Beginning of Something Amazing 
2009-05-18 - Although only two songs on this album were written by Hank, this CD is absolutely amazing. If you listen to Hank III, you are probably more familar with the dirty, gritty, metal-inspired country that he plays. But this album is straight up county. The GOOD kind. You've got legendary country songs like Cocaine Blues and 87 Southbound, all that Hank does flawlessly. This album is one of my favorites of all time. Give it and all of Hank's work a listen, you'll be surprised.
Good music really IS in his blood... 
2009-01-22 - Hard to believe that Hank III released this debut CD TEN years ago. Harder to believe that he has not made a bigger splash in the commercial country/rock music business than he has. While none of the 13 songs on here has the staying power of his father's rowdy hits or his grandfather's broken-hearted ballads, Hank III demonstrates that he is a class performer, with good instincts for picking material. Young Hank only contributed to the writing of four of these tracks, but all are interesting enough to reward frequently repeated play. This is my first purchase of a Hank III solo disc, but I also greatly enjoy the collaboration "Three Hanks" which features his dad, Hank Jr. and via the wonders of technology, Hank Sr. doing a bunch of grandpa's lesser-known songs, and doing them very well. I can't predict Hank III's recording and performing future, but if he does not achieve a long and prosperous career, I would be quite surprised.
Not just his daddys son But Grandaddys grandson
2008-10-28 - If Sr was alive today this would be him. III did it his own with an outlaw country twist. One listen and I was hooked. BFC
This "Risin Outlaw" went "Straight To Hell" and he's "Damn Right, Rebel Proud" of it!!!
2008-09-26 - "DAMN RIGHT, REBEL PROUD" TO BE RELEASED ON OCTOBER 21, 2008.
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"The Grand Ole Opry Ain't So Grand Anymore"
"Long Hauls And Close Calls"
"Six Pack Of Beer"
Ghostly nostalgia with daring originality
2007-12-06 - Much has already been said about this album . . .and I don't know what more I can add...except that for me, one of the most brilliant concepts about the album is that Hank Williams III seems to be raising his own grandfather's ghost while at the same time forcible keeping his own beautiful originality intact.
The last song "Blue Devil" is particularly haunting, not only because it reflects the split nature of all three Hank Williams singers, but also because the editing in the piece recalls those late nights of driving across lonely stretches of the Arizona desert and trying to listen to country western songs on some distant and fading AM station.
In closing I might also add that it's seems a bit strange to find photos on this album of bits and pieces of an old car's backseat, which may or may not have reference to his own grandfather untimely death in the backseat of a Cadillac in 1953. And how Hank Williams III's music is somehow forever connected to his own grandfather's nostalgia of good western music.
