Unlike most post-millennium country outlaws, Hank Williams III has actually been fighting against something concrete instead of just nursing a bad attitude. Hank III likes his music as strong as his drink, and includes both his hard-edged trad-styled country and his “hellbilly” thrash metal project Assjack. There’s an undercurrent of metal/punk creeping through a few tracks on Rebel Within (the bursts of Cookie Monster vocals on the title cut and the breakneck finale of “Drinkin’ Over Momma”), but for the most part, this is the most straightforward country music Hank III has released since 2002’s Lovesick, Broke and Driftin’ Billly Contreras fiddle, Andy Gibson’s steel guitar, and Johnny Hilands guitar give these songs a classic acoustic honky-tonk feel while adding just enough electric elements to keep this from sounding like an exercise in retro-nostalgia.

Format / LP
Released /01/30/2026
Catalogue / CRB-79179A
Barcode / 715187917941
Artist / Hank Williams III
Label / Curb Records
Genre / Country