Nearly three and a half decades ago, Webb Wilder and R.S. Field lit out of their native Hattiesburg, Miss., homesteads and headed for the bright lights and smoky bars of Austin, Tex, and nothing has been the same since.
Wilder and Field formed The Beatnecks in 1985 after a move to Nashville and counted themselves among the first wave of roots rocking Alt. Country bumpkins, swinging and sweating their way to a rabidly loyal fan base (and an odd rumor that they were the same person, but that’s a story for another time). Wilder’s 1986 solo debut, It Came from Nashville, found its inspiration in British and American Rock, Honky Tonk Country, West Coast Surf Pop and raging hillbillly Blues, a hybrid that the self-proclaimed “Last of the Full Grown Men” dubbed Swampadelic.
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