Buy a ticket for a Hank Williams III show and you're probably expecting to hear a whole lot of country songs about heartbreak, good old boys, and life on the wide open plains. Show up to the Hank Williams III and Assjack show at Culture Room in July and you'll find something completely different. Although the Hank Williams family name is synonymous with country music, when HW III teams up with Assjack, it's all about thrash punk, metal, and psychobilly blasting out the speakers. Tickets are avai
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Many famous musicians have spent a day or three in jail for driving
drunk, holding drugs, or something really stupid. But only the select
few have spent a serious stretch of time in prison, which brings us to
David Allan Coe. The original country outlaw performs Friday at the Culture Room in Fort Lauderdale.It's
confirmed Coe did time at Ohio State Penitentiary and he has famously
claimed to have been on death row for killing a man who attempted to
procure a blow job from him -- this has not bee