Evan: Out of all of these songs, this was the first written and the last shared with the band. Despite being named after one of my favorite spots in Upshur County, I wrote the song as a teenager in McDowell County. There, I heard the late Carl Rutherford perform, and it was the first time I really connected with old-time and country music. It was Carl’s “Little Annie”— specifically her decapitation by train—that spoke to the sixteen-year-old metalhead in the audience. Later that night, another McDowell County musician showed me how to tune a guitar to open D minor, so I decided I’d try writing my own brand of mountain metal.
credits
from Dog & Gun,
released May 22, 2014
Written by Evan Johns
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