Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/06/18/the-heaviest-banjo-in-the-univ.html
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Interesting, although – as far as country/metal/rock hybrids go – I sense greater sincerity in Reverend Horton Heat’s “Eat A Steak” even given its mock-hawking for the Texas Beef Industry.

I felt a certain little bit of arousal while watching it.
Better pour yourself a big one @Papasan…because… you know…
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Warping the genesis of bluegrass for me.
Apparently there’s dueling banjo country and their’s pillaging warband of banjos country.
metal sans distortion sounds puny and simplistic
Opening band for GWAR.
I have a sympathetic sore throat after watching that.
The fiddle player has some serious bow twirling prowess, but I was kind of hoping for a thrash fiddle solo. Nothing doing.
ETA: Turnabout is fair play:
I think it says something that even without the distortion I had an immediate positive reaction to every Slayer sample.
He’s picking a lot more in the video than in the recording.
Or all-bard adventuring group
But seriously, a fiddler and an old timey band is cabable of so much more than that.
Slayer:
Now with ukulele
Significantly better than the original o.O’.
Does Rob Scallon have a family member who compulsively makes straw hats or something? How does he get so many straw hats?
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