The World Motivation
If I'm opening up for George Jones or playing a complete honky-tonk, I do true country music. But if it's a complete rock club, I'll do some country and a little bit of this hillbilly acoustic country metal or whatever it's called.
“If I'm opening up for George Jones or playing a complete honky-tonk, I do true country music. But if it's a complete rock club, I'll do some country and a little bit of this hillbilly acoustic country metal or whatever it's called.”
If I'm opening up for George Jones or playing a complete honky-tonk, I do true country music. But if it's a complete rock club, I'll do some country and a little bit of this hillbilly acoustic country metal or whatever it's called.
This is just what I do, play music and create sounds and all that good stuff.
My first vinyl was a Kiss record and a Walt Disney record. I liked the energy of rock and roll.
I told all my punk friends, 'If I'm gonna do country music, I'm gonna milk it.'
It's right there on my birth certificate, 'Shelton Hank Williams III.' It's not fake.
I love the acoustic sets. Growing up, me and my dad would always watch those because we loved seeing the songs stripped back.
In the early 1970s. 1971, '72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren't signing acoustic acts any more. Although they had been pretty much been getting out of that for some time before that.
I learned tabla for three years when in school, then started picking up the basics of the acoustic guitar when in college.
I played recorder in assembly, then I became passionate about the guitar, I don't know why. I started on electric then moved to acoustic - my brother was playing bass in the next room.
I grew up playing the saxophone. I joined the jazz band in high school, but somewhere along the way I realized the guys who strummed acoustic guitars at parties were the ones who got the attention. So I asked a friend to show me a few chords, and when I moved to L.A. I spent a lot of time practicing my guitar.