Hat-Tip to TFG:
Sitting on an airplane, going nowhere fast, I got to wondering. Why the Honky-punk?
It wasn’t until I had some discussion with Scott about the music and it’s genre, I finally got a handle on it. While I was too young for the real punk on it’s first iteration, although, I can understand it, emotionally feel tied it’s vibrancy, I wasn’t around. Flip that around, though, think about Austin’s “The Big Boys,” and it all slowly fits into place.
The drive itself is that leftover childhood rebelliousness – coupled with a sense of place, the so-called “county” music. A ugly bizarre success story from these disparate threads would be the late, great Doug Sahm. He blended the local essence with the new “rock and roll” sounds.
What I like about the honky-punk, Hell-Billy music is not the homage so much as a complete embrace of certain traditional standards like musical arrangements, alongside the less than lyrical vocal portion.
Appalachia fiddles meet screaming devil rock. How cool is that?
Two Meat Tuesday (the book)
(cure for the common horoscope)
Pink Cake A commonplace book.
www.kramerwetzel.com (Friday Photo)
