''3 Bar Ranch Cattle Callin is the seventh studio album by

Hank Williams III Shelton Hank Williams (born December 12, 1972), known as Hank Williams III, is an American musician, singer and multi-instrumentalist, known for his unique fusion of traditional country music, rockabilly, heavy metal and punk rock. He was the ...

, released on September 6, 2011 on Hank 3 Records, through

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Critical reception

''3 Bar Ranch Cattle Callin was met with "mixed or average" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 46 based on 6 reviews. In a review for ''

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'', critic reviewer Jonathan Keefe wrote: "''Cattle Callin'' is a concept record whose concept is so deeply flawed that it never should've made it as far as the studio. ''Cattle Callin'' provides Hank 3 with another opportunity to showcase his technical chops, even his arrangements and vicious guitar riffs grow repetitive after the first few tracks."

Live

3 Bar Ranch was a part of Hank's live show replacing the Assjack set. Both live bands have had notable extreme drummers performing alongside Hank, like Tim Yeung ( Nile), Joey Gonzalez (

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) and Phil Cancilla (

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). Hank's last live show was October 6, 2014 at the Ogden Theater in Denver, Colorado. Cancilla is the last drummer to perform live with Hank.

Track listing

References

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