Throwback MP3 of the Week: Scroat Belly, “Whiskey Drinkin’ S.O.B.”

Scroat Belly is nowadays best known as being a prototype for Split Lip Rayfield. Kirk Rundstrom and Wayne Gottstine once played with drummer John Ezelle and bass player Mitch “Gator” Clay in a band that was so fast and hard, it makes Split Lip’s speed-metal bluegrass seem relatively tame.

This album, The Great Alaskan Holiday is the band’s first album, and a hell of a lot harder to track down than their Bloodshot Records release, Daddy’s Farm. Released a year before that allegedly divisive record, The Great Alaskan Holiday features faster, rougher versions of five Daddy’s Farm tracks, including the song we’re featuring today, “Whiskey Drinkin’ S.O.B.”