Guitar magazine GuitarWorld has unearthed a previously unreleased song by late Pantera/Damageplan guitarist Dimebag Darrell Abbott titled "Whiskey Road", which you can check out below. According to Rolling Stone, "Whiskey Road" was recorded back in 2001 as Pantera was finishing up their final U.S. tour, with Dimebag playing every instrument on the recording himself. The song has been pressed to a special vinyl flexi-disc by GuitarWorld as a part of their upcoming Dimebag tribute issue, and have even shared the song's guitar tabs.
Although Dimebag's work with Pantera and Damageplan was pretty riff-heavy and brutal, "Whiskey Road" is more mellow and country-tinged, with acoustic guitar being the primary instrument, though Dimebag still makes room for some bluesy, distorted guitar solos.
You can check out Dimebag Darrell's "Whiskey Road" here:
Dec. 8, 2014, marked the 10th anniversary of Dimebag's tragic death, which occurred onstage during a Damageplan concert in Columbus, Ohio. Dimebag, along with three others at the concert, were shot to death by a crazed fan named Nathan Gale, who himself was killed by police shortly afterward. Damageplan's sole studio album New Found Power was Dimebag's last album to be released during his lifetime. The posthumous Rebel Meets Rebel, a country-metal album recorded with David Allen Coe and members of Pantera, was released in 2006.
"It was a really hardcore, tragic event," Dimebag's brother and Pantera/Damageplan drummer Vinnie Paul said in the Talk Is Jericho podcast, "and that guy wanted to kill me, too. And somehow or another, I was lucky enough to escape that, and I'm still here, and I will do everything and anything I can to carry on the legacy and the tradition that my brother always had."
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