With Mastodon having released a new full length and an EP this year and the debut album from Giraffe Tongue Orchestra last year, there’s been a lot of Brent Hinds music to keep fans busy. Now, according to the PRP, he’s just released another fix of new country music with West End Motel called “Sorry I’m Late.” West End Motel is an alternative/indie musical collective from Atlanta, Georgia that have been going strong for 15 years. The new country flavored track is a surprise from the metalhead Hinds. The piano gently plugging away in the background gives it that honky tonk feel for the full saloon effect and even if you’re not a country fan, there’s a charm to the song. Hinds contributed to the song with his vocal and guitar dexterity.
“Definitely a departure from the rest of the record, here’s ole B Hinds making good on his promise for some home cooked country with Ben Thrower’s official band apology to our wives, girlfriends and really anyone we’ve woken up at 5AM,” comments West End Motel. “Think 1977 in the back of your parents crappy wagon furiously trying to get passing truckers to blow their horn. We are southern kids raised on Otis Redding, Merle Haggard and Roger Miller, so we can’t help it, it’s just in us on occasion.”
The song is meant to be an apology to their girlfriend’s for coming home in the late hours of the night. Listen to “Sorry I’m Late” below.
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