Right up there with Marty Stuart,Chuck Meadis one of the torchbearers of neo-traditional country music, that punky, jangly, and twangy sound that helped revitalize Nashville in the Nineties.
Earlier this year,Meadand Stuart came together to write Lonely Boy, Meads latest single with his band the Stalwarts.
A new video directed by Stacie Huckeba for the supercharged guitar-rocker, which Mead describes as the Who on hay bales, dropped on Friday.
Chuck Mead and the Stalwarts kick out the country-punk jams in the new video for “Lonely Boy.“Stacie Huckeba*
We initially envisioned it as a Johnny Horton-style song, Mead says of Lonely Boy in a statement, but when the band played it, it transformed into a Johnny Horton backed by Johnny Thunders sound, which we thought was cool.
Mead is as much New York Dolls as he is Merle Haggard, and over his career especially with the band BR5-49 atRoberts Western Worldin Nashville hes been able to effortlesslyblendthose seemingly disparate genres.
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Mead and the Stalwarts bassist Mark Andrew Miller and drummer Marty Lynds are perpetually on the road and will perform gigs in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Missouri next week.
Earlier this summer, they anchored the Trucker & Country Festival in Interlaken, Switzerland, as a five-piece, with Adam Ditch Kurtz on pedal steel and Italian guitarist Don Diego.
Meads writing partner on Lonely Boy, Stuart and his band the Fabulous Superlatives, will open for Chris Stapleton at a pair of shows in Nashville this weekend.
