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13 August 2005

The Unholy Marraige is Complete! Country & Heavy Metal consummate their union: The Supersuckers honky-tonk version of "Breaking The Law." (rapidshare, click free, follow directions) Get out your beers and make some devil horns. It don't get much better.

post by: jonmc at: 19:14 | 10 comments

I take you've never heard Hayseed Dixie?

posted by o9scar 13 August | 20:31

You take wrong, o9scar. I have several tunes of there's in my collection. But the 'suckers do an exemplary job on this track, camp-free.

posted by jonmc 13 August | 20:33

I always associate this kind of sound with Nick Cave. Funny though, I rather like the Supersuckers and this sounds nothing like I would've expected.

posted by dodgygeezer 14 August | 04:30

Um...Raging Slab called.
They were wondering where you've been for the past 15 years.

posted by Smart Dalek 14 August | 10:09

Now that I think about it...weren't the SWANS really a country band at heart?

posted by Smart Dalek 14 August | 10:19

Smart Dalek, I have the first Raging Slab album on vinyl, that I bought to replace the cassette I bought back in the day. But the Supersuckers (on this track at least, usually they're just a really good punk band) take the opposite approach, turning metal into country. Just sayin'

posted by jonmc 14 August | 11:06

But metal to country's too easy. Heck, Johnny Cash did the same with the Nails' "Rusty Cage".

Now Tammy Wynnette's "Stand By Your Man" (as performed by Wendy O. Williams of the Plasmatics and Lemmy from Motorhead) required skill. ;)

posted by Smart Dalek 14 August | 11:45

Red Star Belgrade did a nice country version of Highway to Hell.

posted by Marxchivist 14 August | 14:21

But metal to country's too easy.

Eh. "Breaking The Law," is the perfect song for this excercise, because of the outlaw badass lyrics. (someone should also do a country version of "Every Rose Has It's Thorn," a bad rock song, but it'd make a nice country weeper. And the Supersuckers cover of Willie Nelson's "Bloody Mary Morning," is great, too.

Now Tammy Wynnette's "Stand By Your Man" (as performed by Wendy O. Williams of the Plasmatics and Lemmy from Motorhead) required skill. ;)

Indeed it did, my friend. I have that in an old slip case import.

posted by jonmc 14 August | 14:43

Now that Mutt Lange has redefined country into what we all used to call "Def Leppard," country to metal (or vice versa) shouldn't be much of a stretch.

Today's country stars record hair rock with Nashville sessioneers on fiddle and lap steel for ambiance.

posted by Hugh Janus 15 August | 09:00

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