The Cadillac Three enlist Elvie Shane and Outdated Crow Medication Present’s Ketch Secor for the Tennessee-Kentucky collab you didn’t know you wanted. “Hillbilly” mixes Secor’s haunting fiddle with the grungy stomp of the Cadillac Three, all propelled by the moonshine drawls of Shane and TC3 singer-guitarist Jaren Johnston.
However whereas the Nashville born-and-bred TC3 are recognized for ragers like “Crackin’ Chilly Ones With the Boys” and “Get together Like You” (as heard on Yellowstone), “Hillbilly” is extra cautionary, warning concerning the pitfalls of drugs, whiskey, and another substance used to numb the ache. “Low on dopamine/reaching for a treatment/though it means falling off the wagon,” the Kentucky native Shane sings in his verse, earlier than Johnston asks, “The way you feeling on that hill, billy?”
It’s notably darkish shit for the Cadillac Three, with an ominous hook that remembers the “hey, wait” rhythm of Nirvana’s “Coronary heart Formed Field.” Johnston and Shane co-wrote the tune with Cadillac Three drummer Neil Mason.
“On the floor, ‘Hillbilly’ is a celebration anthem, nevertheless it hits in a different way than lots of our songs as a result of we’re encouraging some introspection with this one,” Johnston says in an announcement. “It’s a tune about understanding the place the road is and once you’ve gone too far. Generally you may dwell on the sting slightly too lengthy and it is advisable to come again down from the excessive.”
Provides Shane, “It’s a cautionary story about how simply you may fall into the lure of substance abuse coming from small rural cities like because the one I dwell in now.”
The Cadillac Three, rounded out by Kelby Ray on lap metal, are perpetually on the highway and can play Savannah, Georgia, and Charleston, South Carolina, this weekend on their Bandana Tour. Shane, in the meantime, launched a do-or-die cowl of the Rolling Stones’ “Sympathy for the Satan,” a observe off an upcoming nation tribute album to Mick, Keith, and the band.