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Biography
Infobox Album | | Name = Rebel Meets Rebel| Type = studio| Artist = David Allan Coe and Pantera|Cowboys from Hell | Cover = Rebel Meets Rebel.jpg| Released = May 2, 2006| Recorded = 1999 & ndash; 2003| Genre = Country rock|Country metal | Length = 40:23| Label = Big Vin Records|Big Vin | Producer = Dimebag Darrell Vinnie Paul | Chronology = David Allan Coe | Last album = ''All I'll Ever Be (2005) | This album = Rebel Meets Rebel (2006)| Next album = ''DAC's Back (2010) Rebel Meets Rebel is a country rock|country metal album by David Allan Coe and Pantera members Dimebag Darrell , Rex Brown , and Vinnie Paul .cite web |url= http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/coe-revisits-penitentiary-20050714 |title=Coe Revisits Penitentiary |author=Dan Leroy |date=July 14, 2005 |work= |publisher= Rolling Stone |accessdate=21 August 2011 The music was written and recorded by the band when the musicians had time aside from their other projects, including Pantera 's world tour supporting Reinventing the Steel .
The album was released on May 2, 2006, under Vinnie Paul's own label Big Vin Records , posthumously after Dimebag Darrell's murder in 2004.
Background
At the close of the decade, Coe met Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell in Fort Worth, Texas , and the two musicians, struck by the similarity of the approaches between country and heavy metal music|heavy metal , agreed to work together, and began production on the album, with Vinnie Paul and Rex Brown , which was recorded sporadically between 1999 and 2003, and released in 2006, two years after Dimebag Darrell's murder.cite web |url= http://www.allmusic.com/artist/rebel-meets-rebel-p771849/biography |title=Rebel Meets Rebel | AllMusic |author=Steve Leggett |date= |work= |publisher= |accessdate=21 August 2011
Originally the song Rebel Meets Rebel was supposed to be released as a duet with Coe and Phil Anselmo .cite news | url= http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1451613/20011226/pantera.jhtml? headlines=true | title=Pantera Members Rip It Up With Rebellious Side Projects|publisher= MTV | date=Dec. 21, 2001 | first=Jon | last=Wiederhorn | accessdate = 2006-11-04
Music and lyrics
Lyrical content ranges from boisterous, cocky songs about getting drunk and stoned to more serious subject matter, such as the Anti-racism|anti-racist song "Cherokee Cry", which criticizes the United States government's treatment of Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans .
Rebel Meets Rebel features what has been described as a "groundbreaking" mix of country music and heavy metal music|heavy metal . Allmusic writer Megan Frye wrote, "On first listen, "Nothin' to Lose" sounds awkward -- as if someone had spliced a Pantera song together with a David Allan Coe one on their home computer. It doesn't mesh well, and the bass seems too sharp and tinny. But after listening to the album a few times, it starts to make more sense." Dimebag Darrell was praised for his guitar playing, which incorporated elements from thrash metal , as well as dark melodic playing. "Rebel Meets Rebel" features fiddle playing by Joey Floyd.
Reception
Album ratings| rev1 = Allmusic | rev1Score = Rating|4|5cite web |url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/rebel-meets-rebel-r828723/review |title=Rebel Meets Rebel - AllMusic |author=Megan Frye |date= |work= |publisher= |accessdate=21 August 2011
Allmusic's Megan Frye wrote that "Each song on the album is as unique as the musicians who created it."
Track listing
All lyrics by David Allan Coe . All music by Dimebag Darrell & Vinnie Paul .
