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Hailing from Charleston, SC, the Defilers were making a return trip to Columbia and bringing along a new drummer. I didn’t catch his name, but he sounded great on the fast, rave-up numbers.
The first few songs were pretty formulaic country numbers with tempos fast enough for some barroom dancing. Singer Arleigh blew a little blues harp on a few tunes, and the band threw in some well-known covers: Willie Nelson’s “Whiskey River”, Merle Haggard’s “Mama Tried” and Hank Williams’ “I Saw the Light.”
The second half of the set moved away from country and towards rockabilly, which I thought was the band’s stronger suit. There were also some spaghetti-western instrumental stylings, which helped to spice up the otherwise blasé mix.
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As far apart as the two fanbases are, the sounds of country and punk rock apparently aren’t all that incompatible. And apparently, a three-chord country progression is just as boring with distortion and barroom energy. The punk-country style, as exotic as it sounds, was just a little too bland for me.
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