“Conway Twitty came to me in a dream about 15 years ago and gave me this song” is how Pendleton, South Carolina’s Brant Duncan puts it – referring to his most recent recording at GF studio.
Brant first caught the attention of GFR with his previous band The Elegance (2008) before joining Carolina punk rockers Pine Tar Rage who had recently signed to Gypsy Farm Records.
“Trembling Rose” is Duncan’s first new material in years under the pseudonym “The Haunted Head” and we hear a familiar voice that any fan of The Elegance will find fits right in woven between blankets of Supro-FUZZ with piano and drums accompaniment.
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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