As concept albums go, this is one of the better ones we’ve come across. It is based upon the true story of the childhood humiliation visited upon Hank Williams, who as a small boy growing up fatherless in a rented shack, lived nearby to the neighbouring (and rich) family of Herman Pride. His fondness for playing with toy guns led him to be nicknamed Two-Gun Pete by Pride, a moniker he disliked and never forgot.

More than 80 years later, a descendant of that same Herman Pride feels the ghost of Hank Williams taking revenge. Led by guitar player and singer Stephen Pride, Collisionville’s new album The Revenge of Two-Gun Pete (out on Booplet Records – buy here) is haunted by the angry spirit of Hank Williams laying his cold hand on Pride and his family. The ten tracks brilliantly carry through the eerie feeling of Williams still getting even for the Pride family’s crimes against him.

Over the course of the record, the bottleneck slide and pedal steel gives way to dirty, amplified harmonica and fuzzed out bass before a reprise of the album opener played on banjo, acoustic guitar, and upright bass, with Hank’s ghost calling out the curse again through the window of that goddamned Cadillac.

Grab the album opener, The Ballad of Herman P. Willis, which sets the scene by retelling the story of the curse.

Download Collisionville – The Ballad Of Herman P. Willis mp3 (from The Revenge of Two-Gun Pete)