What not to buy: Hank III – Ghost To A Ghost
Why?: You put more effort into forming that question than he did in the entire cd.
Okay, that’s pretty bad but seriously; why?: No, seriously. Ghost To A Ghost is, in a word, lazy. In another word, bad. In a stream of words: It’s disrespectful to our little underground scene that this album was released in any form that requires money for you to hear it.
I was going to launch into a huge rant about Ghost To A Ghost after hearing it for the first time. I was, honestly, angry that Hank would give us this pile. After all the talk, all the speculation of him holding songs for the post Curb era what do we get right out of the box? More of the same. More runnin’ and druggin’ and outlawin’ cliche. More juvenile lyrics. More laziness and I was ready to rail against it with all the bile and typographical acridity I could muster. Then, I thought, what’s the point? I’d put more effort into said rant than Hank did in the album I was railing against. Furthermore, at this point, I feel like I’d just be pissed cause I want something from III that he’s just not capable of giving me. Another Straight To Hell. Another great country album. At this point, I am resigned to just accepting that, as Hanks’s greater body of work suggests, Straight To Hell was just a flash in the pan. And it’s a damned shame.
It’s one thing to make a bad album. Hell, it happens every day. It’s quite another to not even try. To just push something out cause you have it. Don’t buy Ghost To Ghost. Hell, don’t even download it.
I know some people are gonna say, “Hey, he’s releasing 4 albums back to back. The others are better.” To which I say, “Well it should have only been 3 cause Ghost To A Ghost is complete crap.”
Hate away in the comments, I don’t care cause deep down inside, you know I’m right.