Music Review // Petunia AndTheVipers "BILLY THE KID"
This song about "BILLY THE KID" is a true country song, as it has those ramblin' guitars and reminds me a bit of Johnny Cash. There was a time when there was more country/folk songs that used to tell stories such as this, but they seem to be fading away. Still, the fact that Petunia AndTheVipers have this song as a reflection of years past makes me happy because it's keeping a tradition alive. While this music video is set in sepia tones it does show the story as the lyrics sing the song. This is good for watching but at the same time the song itself paints enough of a picture so if you're not watching you can still create in your mind what is going on. There are lines of both "And I'll shoot you down", as spoken by Billy The Kid, and "You're gonna hang by the neck, my son until you're dead dead dead", which is about him, but when you think of this as being about the Old West it was a violent place. At one point during