I am happy to bring back this feature but I haven't really had a chance to dive into the world of mash-ups.  I have been catching up everywhere else but in the music world.  Oh well, it will happen.  I found some of the old websites that I haunted so within a week or two, I'll post some actual mp3s.  This week I'm going to post some videos from youtube.

A few weeks ago I caught a new show on the FX network.  It's called Justified and stars Timothy Olyphant.  It's about a U.S. marshal who is fast on the draw.  I really enjoy the show because it seems like it is a modern day Western plus it has Olyphant who was in one of my favorite shows, Deadwood, and the character he plays in Justified could be a great grandson of his Deadwood character.

The theme songs for Justified are unique.  It's hard to put a label on the music but it's a mash-up of styles.  It contains two forms of music that are uniquely American: rap and bluegrass.  Rench and TONEZ got together to form a band called Gangstagrass and here are two examples of their work:

Opening credits

End credits

This music...I love it.

The quality is poor but it is a great mash-up.

That's it for this week, next week will be better.