Red Hot Track Of The Week: The Cadillac Three

Song

Double Wide Grave

Artist

The Cadillac Three

The Cadillac Three backstory

A second Red Hot Track Of the Week this year for The Cadillac Three continues to build the momentum ahead of next month’s hotly anticipated brand new album drop.

And the countryfied rock trio’s latest long player feels long overdue after the band released two records within the space of nine months in 2020.

Country Fuzz and surprise pandemic-era follow-up Tobasco And Sweet Tea saw TC3 unleash 31 songs in a year!

But somehow quality still trumped quantity as the Nashville-based crew expanded their sound and broadened their ambition.

Then came the silence as Jaren Johnston and co. took a well-earned breather, dealt with personal setbacks and plotted the future.

It was, of course, the calm before the storm and last summer’s incendiary UK headline tour, featuring Lindsay Ell, lit up the live circuit.

Having built up their fan base from the bottom — check out this Newcastle University review from seven years ago — a new TCS album has become a major rock and roll event.

And there’s every likelihood that The Years Go Fast will build on the legacy begun by 2012’s self-titled debut and its brilliant follow-up Bury Me In My Boots.

In Jaren Johnston’s own words

“It’s a heavy love song.

“Double Wide Grave is another song I wrote about me and my wife but it happened to be written when we were also dealing with the loss of Taylor Hawkins from Foo Fighters.

“I made that track a day or two after he passed.

“At the time, I was producing the Foo Fighters’ guitarist Chris Shiflett’s album, so I got to witness the pain the band was going through.

“I did everything in the song like they would’ve done it, just with a southern TC3 spin added in, and it worked.”

The verdict on Double Wide Grave

Ultimately completed in response to the passing of Taylor Hawkins, the dynamic Double Wide Grave is TC3 fusing classic Foo Fighters with Southern rock cool.

What became a heartfelt tribute to the much-missed drummer is Johnston and co. at their heaviest and most humble.

And Hawkins would surely approve of a humdinger of a single that unleashes some kind of riff-fuelled country metal fury.

Johnston penned Double Wide Grave while producing Foos’ guitarist Chris Shiflett’s latest album.

And a relentless, riotous jam captures the raw outpouring of emotion that followed Hawkins’ sudden death.

TC3 might sit under the umbrella of country rock but the trio have long since separated themselves from any creatively stifling genre classification.

Double Wide Grave is the sound of a band that continues to carve out an exciting future with the promise that fans can always expect the unexpected.