Rebel Meets Rebel

Rebel Meets Rebel is a country metal album by David Allan Coe and Pantera members Dimebag Darrell, Rex Brown, and Vinnie Paul.The music was written and recorded by the band when the musicians had time aside from their other projects, including Pantera’s world tour supporting Reinventing the Steel.

The album was released on May 2, 2005, under Vinnie Paul’s own label Big Vin Records, posthumously after Darrell’s murder in December 2004.

At the close of the decade, Coe met Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell in Fort Worth, Texas, and the two musicians, struck by the similarity of the approaches between country and heavy metal, agreed to work together. Together with Vinnie Paul and Rex Brown, they began production of the album which was recorded sporadically between 1999 and 2003. It was released in 2005, just shy of six months after Darrell’s murder.

Originally, the song ”Rebel Meets Rebel” was supposed to be released as a duet with Coe and Phil Anselmo.

The album’s lyrical content ranges from boisterous songs regarding drinking and getting stoned to more serious subject matter, such as the song ”Cherokee Cry”, which criticizes the United States government’s treatment of Native Americans.

Rebel Meets Rebel features what has been described as a ”groundbreaking” mix of country music and heavy metal. AllMusic writer Megan Frye wrote, ”On first listen, [”Nothin’ to Lose”] sounds awkward—as if someone had spliced a Pantera song together with a David Allan Coe one on their home computer. It doesn’t mesh well, and the bass seems too sharp and tinny. But after listening to the album a few times, it starts to make more sense.” Dimebag Darrell was praised for his guitar playing, which incorporated elements from thrash metal, as well as dark melodic playing. ”Rebel Meets Rebel” features fiddle playing by Joey Floyd.

Rebel Meets Rebel

2006

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854863001120

United States

CD

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CD Digipak

~$21.00

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