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Shooter Jennings and Yelawolf Share Last Sometimes Y Video for ‘Radio’
Shooter Jennings has been keeping himself busy with lots of recent music-making. Following his production work on Brandi Carlile‘s latest record and a slew of other projects, the producer extraordinaire’s first album with Yelawolf, Sometimes Y, is out now. In celebration of the album’s release, the duo shared the video for “Radio.” [embedded content][embedded content] “The ‘Radio’ video was the most epic shit I’ve done period,” Yelawolf says. “We blocked off the Strip for three hours, riding a Cadillac completely lawless in front of The Bellagio!! And my friends Braydon and Cass put on an amazing performance. They killed this. And rocking a Manuel suit under the lights of a casino does something to you. Overall we lived every moment of this video. Spidey created a classic. I think it’...
Nickelback Follow Korn By Covering Charlie Daniels’ ‘Devil Went Down to Georgia’
The passing of country icon Charlie Daniels on July 6 has now inspired aural tributes from a pair of seemingly unlikely sources: ’90s nü-metal progenitors Korn and Canadian hitmakers Nickelback. Both lineups took on the classic 1979 hit “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” in their own signature styles. Korn, who previously covered artists ranging from Cameo (“Word Up”) to Cheech & Chong (“Earache My Eye”), teamed up with Southern rapper Yelawolf, for their version of “The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” which dropped July 28. Nickelback’s version of the classic country epic offers up metallic guitars and speedy shredding in place of the classic fiddle, while their accompanying cartoon video shows a red devil rocking out on a double-neck guitar. Singer Chad Kroeger even drops in an F-bomb int...
Korn and Yelawolf Cover ‘The Devil Went Down to Georgia’
Raise your hand if you expected Korn and Yelawolf to collaborate. Now, raise your hand if you ever thought you’d see the two join forces to cover a Charlie Daniels song. Yep, not many — if any — thought that would happen. But it did. The Jonathan Davis-led band enlisted the rapper to tackle the recently departed Daniels’ “The Devil Went Down to Georgia.” The metal version of the song, released Tuesday, is available on Bandcamp. All of the proceeds will go to Awakening Youth, a charity that helps young people who have lost a parent realize positive change in their lives. “We’re very excited to bring you our cover of the late, great Charlie Daniels’ infamous track, ‘The Devil Went Down To Georgia,’” reads a statement on Korn’s Bandcamp. “Charlie left a musical legacy that goe...
