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THE BAILEY HOUNDS PERFORM AN ACOUSTIC COVER OF PANTERA’S “THE GREAT SOUTHERN TRENDKILL,” ONLY NOT REALLY

 Monday, September 26th, 2011 at 2:30pm by

In all honesty, I had never heard of The Bailey Hounds before out pals at Metal Insider posted the below video of the alt-country outfit doing an acoustic cover of Pantera’s “The Great Southern Trendkill” earlier today. That probably has something to do with the fact that I don’t listen to a lot of alt-country, or really any alt-country at all. But said acoustic cover is really pretty good…

…except it isn’t really a cover so much as a complete reinterpretation, which is to say, it uses the lyrics from that Pantera classic and really nothing else. That’s not a criticism; “Trendkill” is the title track from what might Pantera’s least melodious album ever, and I have no idea how one might ever do a straight-forward translation of the song on acoustic instruments anyway, unless maybe you were just went all John-Belushi-in-Animal-House and smashed the guitar against a wall. In fact, the only song from that album that jumps out as me as an even semi-obvious choice for non-electric treatment is “Floods,” but maybe that woulda been too obvious for these Bailey Hounds fellas.

ANYWAY, check out the performance below, and then cry blasphemy or have some appreciation for sumthin’ a lil’ bit different from our usual fare in the comments section below.

-AR

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  • Anonymous

    I wanna see Phil Anselmo dino-stomp this hippies head into the pavement. That was anti-br00tal.

    • Sir Peras

      Nah, it was pretty good, the way you’re supposed to reinterpret a song, good werk!

      • Anonymous

        Yeeah I know. Damn smooth voiced alt-countriers. I just hold that song in particular in all it’s original glory during my “you’re moshing” phase.

  • Gecko

    I’d rather see this than some screamo or talentless scene band try to do a straight cover of the song.  If you had never heard Pantera before, or at least GST, you wouldn’t even know this was a cover, given the re-working of it.  It’s not what I listen to, and I certainly won’t go out and buy an album from The Bailey Hounds, but I can get behind the idea of the whole thing.

    • bobdole

      This. I’d rather hear an artist take a song and give it some of their flavor, than kill my ears with a couple of jackasses ruin a classic.

      They did a good job. It’s different, for sure, but still good.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Corey-Mitchell/660352330 Corey Mitchell

    Love it!

  • http://www.ppsmil.com power point

    their arrangement sounds suspiciously close to guns n roses’ “civil war”

  • http://twitter.com/GraveYardMouth Jesse James Madre

    This was amazing. It makes you remember that Phil, in all his dope head glory, still had some good points, and still had the lexicon to get them across simply. I can dig on some alt-country, it’s the southern cowboy in me, and this was done perfectly. I do wonder what Phil and the rest of the boys would have to say about this. If they would think it cool or “I wanna see Phil Anselmo dino-stomp this hippies head into the pavement. That was anti-br00tal” would be the outcome

  • Enemyofgod72

    This is the kind of cover I like to hear. I hate when a band covers a song by another artist and just plays it the same way as the original. I mean what’s the point I’ve already heard the original then I have to listen a bad vocal imitation too? WTF! Type O Negative were the masters of covering a song and making it their own. I doubt I will ever own a CD from The Bailey Hounds but this cover was definitely worth listening to.

  • http://intothevoidofwhiplash.blogspot.com/ Fred Durst

    I guess I can vaugley hear the resemblense… More shockingly, I’m enjoying alt country.

  • Laslow Panaflex

    I agree with the consensus. When a band totally re-does a song instead of just playing it note for note it does make it a hell of a lot better. That’s why RATM’s cover album Renegades was so good. Rage made each song so much their own that they were completely different than the originals.

    • Stu1

      Thought their Minor Threat and MC5 covers were the weakest on the album, and were the closest to the originals.

  • Fightingmike

    THat was awesome and unique.  Loved it!

  • ThisIsNecessary

    I don’t mind the concept at all, but realistically anybody could just use the lyrics and completely change the music for basically any cover song ever. No original riffs are here, which means its nothing more than a lyrical tribute with a few strummed chords. Meh. Now if there had been even some vague semblance of similarity, this would be worth a listen.

    BUT I agree with the previous comments that this is still better than hearing a shitty metal band ruin an otherwise fantastic song.

  • OldandTired

    Not bad at all.