# Help me identify this artist  (heavy metal?)

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**Created:** [August 11, 2005, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-artist-heavy-metal/316564 "2005-08-11T07:29:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2005, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-artist-heavy-metal/316564/1 "2005-08-11T07:29:52Z")

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I heard this on the satellite tv as background music as they scrolled the sports schedule. I think it’s a cover tune of a country song done in a heavy metal style. Lyrics: \*\* _“Hell yeah, son of the south. Sweet potato pie and hush my mouth”_\*\* I tried googling the lyrics but just came up with country singers. This was definitely not done country style. Maybe it’s new? Anybody recognize it?

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**Author:** ![biscuitsandgravy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb9ed0/32.png) [@biscuitsandgravy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/biscuitsandgravy)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2005, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-artist-heavy-metal/316564/2 "2005-08-11T14:35:37Z")

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Well, those are lyrics from “Song of the South” (not son), originally by Alabama. No idea who might have covered it, though.

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**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2005, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-artist-heavy-metal/316564/3 "2005-08-11T14:55:33Z")

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It might be Kid Rock, as he is a big country/rock crossover.

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**Author:** ![thwartme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@thwartme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thwartme)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2005, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-artist-heavy-metal/316564/4 "2005-08-11T17:47:01Z")

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Asked a friend of mine who’s into the hard rock/metal thing. His reply:

> [@Ryan](#):
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> Looks like Molly Hatchet to me.  
> Title is “Son of The South.”  
> It’s on an album from this year, called Warriors of The rainbow Bridge.
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> They’re more Southern Rock than Metal.
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> They did the song “Flirtin’ With Disaster.”  
> Very Lynyrd Skynyrd like.

Thwartme