" it’s about a man who, uh, murders his cheating wife and is super stoked to go to hell with her, and uh, it sounds grim" - Danny Kenyon, cellist of The Dead South
"It has a banjo and it's a murder ballad. What kind of music is this?" IT'S BLUEGRASS! THIS IS BLUEGRASS! Banjos & fiddles & murder ballads are the iconic sound of bluegrass! More specifically, this is what we in Appalachia call "newgrass". It's the hipper, newer version of a classical old sound. :)
No it's not. Not sure where that comes from. He didn't kill his wife....his marriage died because of her infidelity. The red head is blood on his pillow the night after a boxing fight...Bells, smells, on his knees...boxing. It's about resilience, betrayal, being beaten by life, and losing your faith.
The song is about someone whose wife is cheating on them, and they decide to shoot both the wife and the sancho and then kill themselves. They all are going to hell as sinners but at least they will have company there. The lyric that communicates this clearly is, "After I count down three rounds(bullets) In hell ill be in good company." It's so cool y'all chose to react to this. Glad to be on this journey seeing you both expanding your appreciation for all types of music. Keep up the great work. Shout out from the 719!
I dont think it was a cheating wife! Its just a very toxic and abusive relationship. After they have an argument things get abusive their love couldnt go no further push n shoved theyre bruised and battered so he says oh lord i aint coming home sorry im taking this bitch out she stabbed me with a knife thats stuck through my shoulder lord! shes got to go dead wife is what i already told her! so after he counts down 3 rounds 2 for the wife.. pop! pop! ..you gotta make sure shes dead man the 2nd round is an insurance round for the wife cus after the 3rd round ..pop! he cant come back to finish her off if she survives one round! lol And the 2 of them get to live out eternity together in hell and in good company! Eternal toxic realationship could you imagine any worse kind of hell than that? Especially a well fed ugly ass country red headed wifey lol yuck! blah 🤣Now im gonna have nightmares of being trapped in a walmart with a sea of cankles and moo moo dresses everywhere! ahhhhh
Well done :) I also love the bar “oh lord I ain’t coming home with you” Besides the interesting melody shift, the line sounds so low key, but in the context of the song, it gets so much bigger Love these guys
Cool side note: The Banjo player, Colton, is a HUGE metalhead and used to play guitar in a death metal band. They way ive described them is "bluegrass with metal sensibilities"
I love this band! So glad you reacted! This band is from Canada. I love their “You are my Sunshine” cover. I am from Alabama and I was kinda surprised by their “twang” 😂😂
Funnily enough (just in thinking of the rammstein reactions), they are really popular in Germany. I think even their label is German, and they play here a lot. 😄
The songs about a man who caught his wife and best friend together. He kills them and decides to end his own life because he would have good company in hell. "Countdown in three rounds of Hell I'll be in good company"
Like so many others I love this Canadian band and their misfit collage of bluegrass/folk with a twist. So glad you two are exploring other artist in different genres! Because you did this reaction I'm gonna subscribe!
Thank you for reacting to "The Dead South". This band is Canadian, and as a fellow Canadian I love these guys. Try reacting to "You Are My Sunshine" and "Black Lung". Both are incredible!
both great songs but for 2nd time ever hearing them if they decide to do another reaction should be The Banjo Odyssey all the way man! That will lock and seal the deal for many more dead south reactions! The goal is to keep them wanting to see more so we get to reap the benefits lol Banjo Odyssey sealed it for me when I discovered The Dead South! Just my take on it
Music has so many interpretations! Never heard this song before but I sure do like it. I was thinking about how they managed to splice the scenes together so seamlessly. Definitely put in some traveling miles to make this video. Love your reactions. Thanks for sharing.
It's literally a song about a double-murder suicide when a guy catches his wife cheating on him. He just breaks. Dead love couldn't go no further (because his entire perception of the relationship was shattered in the moment he saw her) Proud of, and disgusted by her (because she was able to snare this other guy) Push, shove, a little bruised and battered (referencing the confontation) Oh Lord, I ain't coming home with you (because he knows he just crossed a line and heaven ain't on the docket anymore) My life's a bit more colder (coming down from the murders, realizing he just killed the person he cares about the most) Dead wife is what I told her (self-explanatory) Brass knife sinks into my shoulder Oh babe, don't know what I'm gonna do (grief and guilt-motivated suicidal ideation here) Then we get to Danny's lines I see my red head, messed bed, tear shed, queen bee, my squeeze The stage it smells, tells Hell's bells, miss-spells, knocks me on my knees It didn't hurt, flirt, blood squirt, stuffed shirt, hang me on a tree After I count down three rounds, in Hell I'll be in good company All of this is simply him taking in the scene of the struggle that went down, the aftermath of killing his wife and her lover, and saying, fuq it. I'm going to hell, but at least she'll be there too. Very dark song, yeah, but cleverly arranged and presented. And quite the earworm. This isn't my usual genre by any mark but this song was stuck in my head for WEEKS after I first heard it.
I've seen them live twice. Great shows. So many good songs. Listen to black lung, spaghetti, deep when the rivers high. They harmonize so good. Actually just watch live at the house of blues, Boston.
I have loved this song for a few years now. I love watching the glasses move from person to person during each switch. For some reason no one comments on it. I guess that is just remnants from working in the TV industry editing and filming that makes me see small things like that.
The video was shot in Toronto ON and in/around Regina Saskatchewan which is north of North Dakota. By the way, the 'homey' is part First Nation (american: Native American).
Danny is playing an actual cello, bass style. The story is that the singer gets home, finds his wife cheating on him, gets stabbed, then kills them and now "hang from the tree" waiting to be hung for doing it. He knows he is going to Hell for doing it, but he knows she as heck isn't going to be in Heaven either.
I'm Canadian, my sister introduced me to this song due to the editing involved in creating this video. I'm hooked on this tune, don't care about the genre , when it's good....
Revisiting the older reaction. @BlackPegasus interested in seeing another from Dead South if you decide you would like to do another. I actually heard 2 or 3 and am about to see what else they've done since. I xant recall right off but i know there was another around time i caught this one that had me raise an eyebrow at the lyrics thinking oh no they didnt just say that lol but nothing bad that would detour me as im about to check them out again after running across them on here again. Thanks and btw i think dudes instrument is a stand up bass so you git it right im thinking 👍 as always enjoy you both thanks to Don as well
We call this music "Southern Gothic" It's a darker form of folk, bluegrass and country music that has been around for a while but is rarely ever played on the radio. Some folks say it was inspired by the writing genre of the same name. If you google Southern Gothic Music and scroll down the rabbit hole through the pages you'll find more about it and the artists that play in it. Another band I really like that does this same sort of thing is called The Heavy Horses. Those Poor Bastards and Old Crow Medicine Show are good examples also. You might have heard a cover of Old Crow's song Wagon Wheel that was done by Darius Rucker a while back.
Old Crow is one of my favorites! I ran across them, and several other artist under "Alternative Bluegrass" several years ago. I've not heard of "Southern Gothic", but I will I'm certain I will enjoy diving down that rabbit hole.
haha, I love this band. Last year, this band sent me on a southern nu-blue grass rabbit hole. I'm not suggesting it for you but I really liked it. Just last week I found out that The Dead South is from the province over from where I live (I live a couple hours south of Calgary, Alberta). The Dead South even compelled me to post one of their songs on my Facebook. The song is You Are My Sunshine, a rendition from the song my mama used to sing to me as a child. Somehow, the Dead South were able to make that cheery song into a real dark, lover scorned song. That one you might be interested in =)
And I have a request for a reaction, if I may. There is a dude named Matt Maeson that has a real cool back story and he has some real strong songs that I think you might like. I would request Hallucinogenics, the one that features Lana Del Ray is the best version but he has an official video if you need the video production
Note that he's got the chello up on his hip, this is the precursor to the blues guitar. Before they created the "electric bass" which looks like a turn-of-the-century torture device with electricity. And it worked well. But this was how they did it back in the day. Then to pull in that Appalachian influence, just rounds out this weird bluegrass/folk thing. It's deviously brilliant.
I always understood “folk” to be an umbrella term like “jazz” or “rock” and blue grass is a type of folk, Americana is, country, even campfire songs are folk. I picture folk music as being any kind of music you can imagine being played on a back porch. Folk is not anything that requires electricity synthesizers, speakers or sound studios, just musicians and their instruments making music together…
Massacre of El Kuroke, The Recap, Miss Mary, Banjo Odyssey, Black Lung, Diamond Ring and their covers are all 10/10 bangers, and they put on an amazing live show.
This is the first I've heard them. It's definitely different, and lots of fun! The song would have fit in very well in the movie "Brother Where Art Thou". (Yes, bluegrass.)
Yes!!!! So stoked to see you guys react to this. I love these guys. I listen to every genre of music but this is my roots. I grew up learning to play the guitar from my da. We would play bluegrass and folk together. So awesome thank you for reacting to this! Love you guys.
Yeah the spoon lady is very cool and so clever . Recently saw in interview with her where she talks about acceptance - her accepting her self and her appearance - I so admired her .
In a similar vain as "The Aristocrats" is a community theme among comedians, in a few music genres the "Murder Ballad" is a tradition. Country and Bluegrass are two of them. You can look at Johnny Cash's "Deliah's Gone" as another example. This is a play on the the Murder Ballad. And is what the lyrics are describing. If you're looking for some more examples of hybrid Bluegrass, where the Bluegrass is up front but blends other styles, here are a few I'd recommend: Truckstop Honeymoon: Capitol Hill The Haunted Windchimes: Out With The Crow Sarah Jarosz: Song Up In Her Head
Bluegrass is basically a mix of mainly UK and Irish folk music and African American music like blues, field hollering (work music) and psalm singing. It's like the original two-tone music 😊
I found out about these guys becuz they shot this MV and another In my city. I also saw them playing on the back of a semi multiple times around downtown not knowing who they were, but later stumbling on the MV and thinking OH SHIT I WAS THERE!! LES GOO. They had my location right outside my work by Dundas Square semi flatbed on the back with speakers & instruments strapped down.. it was pretty cool, to find I actually love their music lmao
like many of us who have known or heard about this group its so cool to see others react to them...its like a "You made it." moment when some of your favorite reactors react to the lesser known groups.
The band have heard themselves described as the Evil Twins of Mumford and Sons, the Dead South are fantastic! There was actually a mosh pit at their Montreal show in 2018
Genre: Bluegrass lyrics: Lyrics Dead love couldn't go no further Proud of, and disgusted by her Push, shove, a little bruised and battered Oh Lord, I ain't coming home with you My life's a bit more colder Dead wife is what I told her Brass knife sinks into my shoulder Oh babe, don't know what I'm gonna do I see my red head, messed bed, tear shed, queen bee, my squeeze The stage it smells, tells Hell's bells, miss-spells, knocks me on my knees It didn't hurt, flirt, blood squirt, stuffed shirt, hang me on a tree After I count down three rounds, in Hell I'll be in good company Dead love couldn't go no further Proud of, and disgusted by her Push, shove, a little bruised and battered Oh Lord, I ain't coming home with you My life's a bit more colder Dead wife is what I told her Brass knife sinks into my shoulder Oh babe, don't know what I'm gonna do I see my red head, messed bed, tear shed, queen bee, my squeeze The stage it smells, tells Hell's bells, miss-pells, knocks me on my knees It didn't hurt, flirt, blood squirt, stuffed shirt, hang me on a tree After I count down three rounds, in Hell I'll be in good company In Hell, I'll be in good company
Bluegrass is characterized by acoustic instruments with one instrument playing the melody, and the others harmonizing around it. Common instruments used are guitar, mandolin, fiddle, banjo, and bass. Sometimes the melody is traded off between instruments. Vocals are typically sung in multi-part harmony with the highest voice singing a dissonant harmony with the melody.
I love these guys. They're really fun. My grandson looks like the brown guy and a couple of years ago he was really excited to see this video and compare his looks! My best friend married a Mexican man from the Midwest and he sounded like a country boy. It was a little awkward, (since I'm from E.L.A) meeting this man who looked like me but spoke with a country twang. hahaha. Anyway, it was cool watching you two react to The Dead South. Thanks, as usual!
Nice that you guys are expanding your music catalogue, I see more and more bands on these reactions that I think are awesome. Gg on the 100k btw, keep it up!
The band is Canadian, so it's Canadian Bluegrass. LoL I saw them live in Columbus Ohio, and they are phenomenal! Met them afterwards and they are the nicest bunch of guys I ever met.
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" it’s about a man who, uh, murders his cheating wife and is super stoked to go to hell with her, and uh, it sounds grim"
- Danny Kenyon, cellist of The Dead South
😂!
I have a good sense of humor so at least I'll be in good company when I die.
@@shadowprince4482I reckon I'll be waitin for ya when you get there. 😂
@@Chargath81 My ex-wife will likely be right there so you might want to avoid me. If not, then lets call it a party!
@@shadowprince4482 I'll make sure my ex wife is commin to the party too then. ^.^
"It has a banjo and it's a murder ballad. What kind of music is this?" IT'S BLUEGRASS! THIS IS BLUEGRASS! Banjos & fiddles & murder ballads are the iconic sound of bluegrass!
More specifically, this is what we in Appalachia call "newgrass". It's the hipper, newer version of a classical old sound. :)
Thank you
No it's not. Not sure where that comes from. He didn't kill his wife....his marriage died because of her infidelity. The red head is blood on his pillow the night after a boxing fight...Bells, smells, on his knees...boxing. It's about resilience, betrayal, being beaten by life, and losing your faith.
A Mormon, an Amish, a Southern Baptist, and a Hasidic Jew walk into a bar...
… bartender says, “What is this? Some kinda joke? Or are you guys The Dead South?”😂
The song is about someone whose wife is cheating on them, and they decide to shoot both the wife and the sancho and then kill themselves. They all are going to hell as sinners but at least they will have company there. The lyric that communicates this clearly is, "After I count down three rounds(bullets) In hell ill be in good company."
It's so cool y'all chose to react to this. Glad to be on this journey seeing you both expanding your appreciation for all types of music. Keep up the great work. Shout out from the 719!
I dont think it was a cheating wife! Its just a very toxic and abusive relationship. After they have an argument things get abusive their love couldnt go no further push n shoved theyre bruised and battered so he says oh lord i aint coming home sorry im taking this bitch out she stabbed me with a knife thats stuck through my shoulder lord! shes got to go dead wife is what i already told her! so after he counts down 3 rounds 2 for the wife.. pop! pop! ..you gotta make sure shes dead man the 2nd round is an insurance round for the wife cus after the 3rd round ..pop! he cant come back to finish her off if she survives one round! lol And the 2 of them get to live out eternity together in hell and in good company! Eternal toxic realationship could you imagine any worse kind of hell than that? Especially a well fed ugly ass country red headed wifey lol yuck! blah 🤣Now im gonna have nightmares of being trapped in a walmart with a sea of cankles and moo moo dresses everywhere! ahhhhh
beat me to it... those shots are not from glasses.
Yep on point in description
Thank you. That’s what I was thinking it meant.
Well done :)
I also love the bar “oh lord I ain’t coming home with you”
Besides the interesting melody shift, the line sounds so low key, but in the context of the song, it gets so much bigger
Love these guys
Cool side note: The Banjo player, Colton, is a HUGE metalhead and used to play guitar in a death metal band. They way ive described them is "bluegrass with metal sensibilities"
I love this band! So glad you reacted! This band is from Canada. I love their “You are my Sunshine” cover. I am from Alabama and I was kinda surprised by their “twang” 😂😂
I love how dark they made that song
Funnily enough (just in thinking of the rammstein reactions), they are really popular in Germany. I think even their label is German, and they play here a lot. 😄
@@ared-ainu true
The songs about a man who caught his wife and best friend together. He kills them and decides to end his own life because he would have good company in hell. "Countdown in three rounds of Hell I'll be in good company"
If someone had told me that "You are my Sunshine" is a creepy song, I wouldn't have believed them. Dead South proved it.
The genre is "Bluegrass" it's a Cello, a Banjo and some awesome vocal harmonizing. The Dead South are another fine Canadian export.
Like so many others I love this Canadian band and their misfit collage of bluegrass/folk with a twist. So glad you two are exploring other artist in different genres! Because you did this reaction I'm gonna subscribe!
Yeah that's why I call it devilgrass.
Thank you for reacting to "The Dead South". This band is Canadian, and as a fellow Canadian I love these guys. Try reacting to "You Are My Sunshine" and "Black Lung". Both are incredible!
Yeah I agree their cover of “ you are my sunshine “ takes that song to a different level . Still love it .
both great songs but for 2nd time ever hearing them if they decide to do another reaction should be The Banjo Odyssey all the way man! That will lock and seal the deal for many more dead south reactions! The goal is to keep them wanting to see more so we get to reap the benefits lol Banjo Odyssey sealed it for me when I discovered The Dead South! Just my take on it
@@MrBurnout22 You can't go wrong with "The Banjo Odyssey" either. I totally agree.
Gunslinger's Glory
Agreed! Anyone who's into this should check out 'Jesse Stewart' another fellow Canadian, good ol' b'y 🤙
This is my 2 yr old nieces' favorite song. She has had to listen to this song at least 5 per day for close to a year now. ❤
Music has so many interpretations! Never heard this song before but I sure do like it. I was thinking about how they managed to splice the scenes together so seamlessly. Definitely put in some traveling miles to make this video. Love your reactions. Thanks for sharing.
Great reaction! This song always makes me smile, it's got a very positive vibe, even if it's about going to hell 😂
It's the finger snaps for me! 😆
Y'all gotta listen to Banjo Odyssey now,!!!!
From my homeland Saskatchewan Canada 🍁 We are the backwoods hicks of Canada 🇨🇦 So proud of these boys!
Grew up a few miles from Earl Scruggs house and I like them too! 👍🏼 He’s playing “Scruggs style” instead of “claw hammer”on the banjo. 👍🏼
I love my Saskatchewan! So much great music came from here
It's literally a song about a double-murder suicide when a guy catches his wife cheating on him.
He just breaks.
Dead love couldn't go no further (because his entire perception of the relationship was shattered in the moment he saw her)
Proud of, and disgusted by her (because she was able to snare this other guy)
Push, shove, a little bruised and battered (referencing the confontation)
Oh Lord, I ain't coming home with you (because he knows he just crossed a line and heaven ain't on the docket anymore)
My life's a bit more colder (coming down from the murders, realizing he just killed the person he cares about the most)
Dead wife is what I told her (self-explanatory)
Brass knife sinks into my shoulder
Oh babe, don't know what I'm gonna do (grief and guilt-motivated suicidal ideation here)
Then we get to Danny's lines
I see my red head, messed bed, tear shed, queen bee, my squeeze
The stage it smells, tells
Hell's bells, miss-spells, knocks me on my knees
It didn't hurt, flirt, blood squirt, stuffed shirt, hang me on a tree
After I count down three rounds, in Hell I'll be in good company
All of this is simply him taking in the scene of the struggle that went down, the aftermath of killing his wife and her lover, and saying, fuq it. I'm going to hell, but at least she'll be there too.
Very dark song, yeah, but cleverly arranged and presented. And quite the earworm. This isn't my usual genre by any mark but this song was stuck in my head for WEEKS after I first heard it.
“If she’s still alive at the end of the song, it ain’t bluegrass.” 😂
Thanks for the break down!
I've seen them live twice. Great shows. So many good songs. Listen to black lung, spaghetti, deep when the rivers high. They harmonize so good. Actually just watch live at the house of blues, Boston.
These guys are insane live! Seen them in the UK 3 times ❤
Excellent!!! The Dead South!
I have loved this song for a few years now. I love watching the glasses move from person to person during each switch. For some reason no one comments on it. I guess that is just remnants from working in the TV industry editing and filming that makes me see small things like that.
The Dead South are a superb band and some of their covers are wild!
The video was shot in Toronto ON and in/around Regina Saskatchewan which is north of North Dakota. By the way, the 'homey' is part First Nation (american: Native American).
I love their cover of People are Strange - a Doors song. Also their cover of You are my Sunshine, they make it almost a dirge. It is amazing.
Their cover of you are my sunshine is outstanding.
One of my fav's been on the net for an age....🍰
This guys are veeeery cool. Glad to see you guys opening to so many different veins of music.
I love the Dead South ,they do a great live session!
Awesome review & reaction you two!..👍👍
it be a cello and he be playin it like a upright bass and the style the dead south be be called bluegrass
Thank you that you did this band!🙂👍 I have like them many years so far. Greetings from Finland! (by Nightwish fan since 1998)
Love these guys
My daughter really loved them and the little "dance" they do when she was like 3. See how your daughter likes it BP!!!
These dudes are amazing! Been a fan for years
Another band i enjoy as well bros.
Oh this is some good shit
Danny is playing an actual cello, bass style. The story is that the singer gets home, finds his wife cheating on him, gets stabbed, then kills them and now "hang from the tree" waiting to be hung for doing it. He knows he is going to Hell for doing it, but he knows she as heck isn't going to be in Heaven either.
I'm Canadian, my sister introduced me to this song due to the editing involved in creating this video. I'm hooked on this tune, don't care about the genre , when it's good....
Thanks for reacting to these guys. As a Canadian I have been following them for years. Love this song!
Revisiting the older reaction. @BlackPegasus interested in seeing another from Dead South if you decide you would like to do another. I actually heard 2 or 3 and am about to see what else they've done since. I xant recall right off but i know there was another around time i caught this one that had me raise an eyebrow at the lyrics thinking oh no they didnt just say that lol but nothing bad that would detour me as im about to check them out again after running across them on here again. Thanks and btw i think dudes instrument is a stand up bass so you git it right im thinking 👍 as always enjoy you both thanks to Don as well
Omg omg. How did i miss you 2 doing these guys. Don thanks dor bringing these guys i love this one by them😊
We call this music "Southern Gothic" It's a darker form of folk, bluegrass and country music that has been around for a while but is rarely ever played on the radio. Some folks say it was inspired by the writing genre of the same name. If you google Southern Gothic Music and scroll down the rabbit hole through the pages you'll find more about it and the artists that play in it. Another band I really like that does this same sort of thing is called The Heavy Horses. Those Poor Bastards and Old Crow Medicine Show are good examples also. You might have heard a cover of Old Crow's song Wagon Wheel that was done by Darius Rucker a while back.
Old Crow is one of my favorites! I ran across them, and several other artist under "Alternative Bluegrass" several years ago. I've not heard of "Southern Gothic", but I will I'm certain I will enjoy diving down that rabbit hole.
@@followthekitty Absolutely! There's some gem music in the genre you'll probably enjoy if you love OCMS
"Americana". So many great musicians... Colter Wall, Sierra Farrell, Charley Crockett, Shakey Graves, Benjamin Todd... etc.
The Dead South are from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Loved this song right from the start
haha, I love this band. Last year, this band sent me on a southern nu-blue grass rabbit hole. I'm not suggesting it for you but I really liked it. Just last week I found out that The Dead South is from the province over from where I live (I live a couple hours south of Calgary, Alberta). The Dead South even compelled me to post one of their songs on my Facebook. The song is You Are My Sunshine, a rendition from the song my mama used to sing to me as a child. Somehow, the Dead South were able to make that cheery song into a real dark, lover scorned song. That one you might be interested in =)
And I have a request for a reaction, if I may. There is a dude named Matt Maeson that has a real cool back story and he has some real strong songs that I think you might like. I would request Hallucinogenics, the one that features Lana Del Ray is the best version but he has an official video if you need the video production
Love this song! So cool!
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
I found this video by accident one day.
Loved it ever since.
Congrats on reaching 100k subs guys!!! Well deserved, keep it up !!!
Oh f yea. Been bumping this jam a few years now 🎉
Folk or southern gothic is typically what it's called. Definitely has some bluegrass classic country vibes though.
DARKGRASS ❤
They definitely play bluegrass festivals
Roots works as well.
No this is called murder ballads
@@timesthree5757this is definitely a murder ballad but the genre itself is southern gothic
I've seen these guys twice live they put on an amazing show live
Sweet you guys hit 100k subs....Bad Ass I knew it would happen as you provide great entertaining content. Thanks and Congrats, way more to come!
Yes! I love these guys.....good reaction bois!
This is one of my favorites. The band Devil equals 3 old number 7 Is banger and I think you’d like it!
I love them - I've been listening to them for years.
I have seen them 3 times, Really a fun concert and great music.
Canada 🇨🇦 🍁 has many talented bands and musicians. Love it when people react and they say wow their Canadian? Gives me a little Canadian pride
congrats on hitting 100k that big!!!!!!
I have tickets to see these guys at The Roundouse in London on 27th October this year. Small 850 capacity venue. Can't fuq-ing wait
Folk punk has to be one of my favorite genres to listen to. Should check out some of that stuff. Or Jared meeeeeees!
Note that he's got the chello up on his hip, this is the precursor to the blues guitar. Before they created the "electric bass" which looks like a turn-of-the-century torture device with electricity. And it worked well. But this was how they did it back in the day. Then to pull in that Appalachian influence, just rounds out this weird bluegrass/folk thing. It's deviously brilliant.
I always understood “folk” to be an umbrella term like “jazz” or “rock” and blue grass is a type of folk, Americana is, country, even campfire songs are folk. I picture folk music as being any kind of music you can imagine being played on a back porch. Folk is not anything that requires electricity synthesizers, speakers or sound studios, just musicians and their instruments making music together…
Yes, you made the 100K...congrats Bros..
Congrats to hitting 100K. Well deserved.
Omg I love this song! My husband introduced me to this band few years ago.. this one is one of my favorites..
Massacre of El Kuroke, The Recap, Miss Mary, Banjo Odyssey, Black Lung, Diamond Ring and their covers are all 10/10 bangers, and they put on an amazing live show.
Y’all live in a small world! Love the Dead South!!
I grew up listening to Charlie Pride. I remember seeing him in concert when I was a kid way back in 1974 during the expo in Spokane
Also Colter Wall, "sleeping on the Blacktop" (do the album version) and the "devil wears a suit and tie" he'll blow your mind! 🤯🤩
Love these guys. I found them a few yrs back and binged them.
This is on my Everyday playlist! So happy to see you reacting to this style of music! 😂❤Love you guys.
They have a video on RUclips where they are live at red rocks it’s fire
This is the first I've heard them. It's definitely different, and lots of fun! The song would have fit in very well in the movie "Brother Where Art Thou". (Yes, bluegrass.)
love this song, can't wait!
Yes!!!! So stoked to see you guys react to this. I love these guys. I listen to every genre of music but this is my roots. I grew up learning to play the guitar from my da. We would play bluegrass and folk together. So awesome thank you for reacting to this! Love you guys.
You should check out Billy Strings 'Dust in a Baggie' of him sitting on a coach.
Or the spoon Lady, she's super cool she plays the spoons
Yeah the spoon lady is very cool and so clever . Recently saw in interview with her where she talks about acceptance - her accepting her self and her appearance - I so admired her .
wow, this song is back. Always loved it.
They are amazing live too
you would dig a band called "Walk Off The Earth", check out their "Hey Ya" cover, a one of a kind band with 12yrs of content
In a similar vain as "The Aristocrats" is a community theme among comedians, in a few music genres the "Murder Ballad" is a tradition. Country and Bluegrass are two of them. You can look at Johnny Cash's "Deliah's Gone" as another example. This is a play on the the Murder Ballad. And is what the lyrics are describing.
If you're looking for some more examples of hybrid Bluegrass, where the Bluegrass is up front but blends other styles, here are a few I'd recommend:
Truckstop Honeymoon: Capitol Hill
The Haunted Windchimes: Out With The Crow
Sarah Jarosz: Song Up In Her Head
Bluegrass is basically a mix of mainly UK and Irish folk music and African American music like blues, field hollering (work music) and psalm singing. It's like the original two-tone music 😊
Love this band!
Good choice, they got some good cover as well !
I like their voices and 2 piece band, cello and banjo. Yes BOYZ they are interesting, the title is interesting...🙄👍☝️🖼☝️🎇🤓
I forgot about this band! Nice to hear again.
Charlie Pride is dope af
I found out about these guys becuz they shot this MV and another In my city. I also saw them playing on the back of a semi multiple times around downtown not knowing who they were, but later stumbling on the MV and thinking OH SHIT I WAS THERE!! LES GOO. They had my location right outside my work by Dundas Square semi flatbed on the back with speakers & instruments strapped down.. it was pretty cool, to find I actually love their music lmao
Lol I always liked this one 🤣 just has a great vibe to it and I love the old homesteader look from the 1800s
I see these live when they came to UK they played BRIGHTON where our Amazing REN is based !! They are an amazing band Live !
I saw them in Greensboro, NC.... so great!!!!
Their cover of You Are My Sunshine is freaking AMAZING as is their song Banjo Odyssey.
They are a Canadian band.
like many of us who have known or heard about this group its so cool to see others react to them...its like a "You made it." moment when some of your favorite reactors react to the lesser known groups.
The video editing in this is sublime.
The band have heard themselves described as the Evil Twins of Mumford and Sons, the Dead South are fantastic! There was actually a mosh pit at their Montreal show in 2018
I love this song!
Genre: Bluegrass
lyrics: Lyrics
Dead love couldn't go no further
Proud of, and disgusted by her
Push, shove, a little bruised and battered
Oh Lord, I ain't coming home with you
My life's a bit more colder
Dead wife is what I told her
Brass knife sinks into my shoulder
Oh babe, don't know what I'm gonna do
I see my red head, messed bed, tear shed, queen bee, my squeeze
The stage it smells, tells
Hell's bells, miss-spells, knocks me on my knees
It didn't hurt, flirt, blood squirt, stuffed shirt, hang me on a tree
After I count down three rounds, in Hell I'll be in good company
Dead love couldn't go no further
Proud of, and disgusted by her
Push, shove, a little bruised and battered
Oh Lord, I ain't coming home with you
My life's a bit more colder
Dead wife is what I told her
Brass knife sinks into my shoulder
Oh babe, don't know what I'm gonna do
I see my red head, messed bed, tear shed, queen bee, my squeeze
The stage it smells, tells
Hell's bells, miss-pells, knocks me on my knees
It didn't hurt, flirt, blood squirt, stuffed shirt, hang me on a tree
After I count down three rounds, in Hell I'll be in good company
In Hell, I'll be in good company
Thanks that helped a lot.
Brilliant!! I love this song! 😆👏
Bluegrass is characterized by acoustic instruments with one instrument playing the melody, and the others harmonizing around it. Common instruments used are guitar, mandolin, fiddle, banjo, and bass. Sometimes the melody is traded off between instruments. Vocals are typically sung in multi-part harmony with the highest voice singing a dissonant harmony with the melody.
I love these guys. They're really fun. My grandson looks like the brown guy and a couple of years ago he was really excited to see this video and compare his looks! My best friend married a Mexican man from the Midwest and he sounded like a country boy. It was a little awkward, (since I'm from E.L.A) meeting this man who looked like me but spoke with a country twang. hahaha. Anyway, it was cool watching you two react to The Dead South. Thanks, as usual!
My nephew who lives in the uk is a dead ringer for the cello player 😅
Nice that you guys are expanding your music catalogue, I see more and more bands on these reactions that I think are awesome. Gg on the 100k btw, keep it up!
The band is Canadian, so it's Canadian Bluegrass. LoL
I saw them live in Columbus Ohio, and they are phenomenal! Met them afterwards and they are the nicest bunch of guys I ever met.
Pretty cool new band. Thanks for the reaction.
They put on a damn good show. I've seen them twice now..