Ed Campbell (Episode 42 of the Ratio Podcast) is perhaps most known throughout the Southern region for his high octane bluegrass group ‘The Drovers Old Time Medicine Show‘ which recently celebrated over 30 years together. Speaking from his porch with cigar in hand Campbell reiterates that he’s “a rocker at heart” and that Pine Tar Rage serves as “an outlet for the rowdier compositions requiring electricity” – although some songs inevitably cross over between the two bands such as the tune “I Got a Headlight Out”.
On the other hand, PTR’s latest single titled ‘46‘ is unmistakably written to take on a more aggressive form of one such angry bull backing into an electric fence in the wrong corner of a palmetto pasture. Campbell, being a Chicago Bears fan says the new song is a “homage to Mike Singletary and the 46 defensive play.”
Well you danced on the edge of a knife
stilettos at midnight
cold steel nothing less
runs deep in your chest
Snarl like a dog like Buddy and Mike
see life through Singletary eyes
Well all night howling at the moon
on into the next afternoon
well you say “life has made you old”
well tear life a new asshole
Snarl like a dog like Buddy and Mike
see life through Singletary eyes
Well ever since ’73
you’ve been lost in a rock and roll dream
well no man who does his best
is left with any regrets
Snarl like a dog like a Buddy and Mike
see life through Singletary eyes
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