Hillbilly Joker

Hillbilly Joker is an unauthorized release of recordings by Hank Williams III. Released on May 17, 2011, the album marks a departure from Williams' previous country albums, instead featuring a cowpunk sound which incorporates elements of rockabilly, heavy metal and hardcore punk. The album was originally recorded and planned to be released in 2003 under the title This Ain't Country, but Williams' label, Curb Records, refused to either release the album or allow him to issue it on another record label. This angered Williams so greatly that he began selling "Fuck Curb Records" T-shirts at his concerts, where he would play a number of songs from this release, notably "Hillbilly Joker", "Life of Sin," "Hellbilly," and "Tennessee Driver." The latter track was eventually re-recorded for Williams' 2009 Assjack side project. Eight years after This Aint Country's recording, and following Williams' 2011 acrimonious departure from the label, Curb suddenly elected to release the now-retitled album without any input from Williams, and promote it as "The New Hank Williams III Album." From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillbil...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)