The exemplar of what I described before as Skynyrd-meets-Helmet. Christy visibly shuddered at that description, but I think that it’s a) apt and b) actually pretty flattering, both because Helmet (at least Meantime era Helmet) were a really great, unconventional metal band; and Skynyrd … well, “Working For MCA” is a really, really, really great guitar song. And there’s nothing wrong with a little deep-fried boogie.

I realize that for some this may lead to hideous memories of a childhood in broiling hot Floridian parking lots, getting stoned, eating boiled peanuts and listening to Black Oak Arkansas or something, but for those of us raised in the anomic generic suburbs that surround (insert city here), with nothing to call a culture of our own, well, excuse us for our search for meaning, even as we find our way to the works of the Van Zants, rather than say Thomas Merton or the Gotama Buddha.