Years active 2010 - Current Genre Rock | Website [1] | |
Rattlesnake Gunfight is an Australian-based alternative country music group fronted by vocalist Matty Gunfight and supported by a group of country musicians, each contributing to the creative process when not working with their own groups.
Rattlesnake Gunfight (RSGF) are best known for their country versions of punk rock songs primarily taken from the skate punk subgenre.
The band's unique sound, which blends traditional country music instruments including banjo, lap-slide, pedal-steel, fiddle and acoustic guitar, with the melodic sound of '90s punk rock, has led to the creation of a new genre known as 'Barn Burner'.
Releases
RSGF first came to the attention of the skate punk community with the release of the group performing their interpretation of the Alkaline Trio song Another Innocent Girl and have gone on to release 3 EP's over a 2-year period, Rattlesnake Gunfight (2011), Live From A Terrace House (2011) and Barn Burner (2012).
The band continued to gain attention from the skate punk community when Lagwagon vocalist and main songwriter Joey Cape sang on the band's version of Sick from Lagwagon's 1995 album Hoss.
The group is currently on hiatus.