I would like to introduce you to the most badass character on basic cable. I was in a bar trying to hide from the local yuppies that have besieged my once quiet getaway when I bumped into an editor for the Squidbillies.

I would like to introduce you to the most badass character on basic cable. I was in a bar trying to hide from the local yuppies that have besieged my once quiet getaway when I bumped into a guy who works for the Squidbillies. I told him “hey uh, great show there buddy; it’s just too funny with all that vernacular dealt out by that main squid.”

He then informed me that the lead character Early Cuyler was voiced by a man named Unknown Hinson who was the lead guitar player and singer for a rockabilly band under the same name. Buddy then told me that this guy really talks like the character on the show and if I could of heard half of what’s on the cutting room floor I would. . . laugh. . . out. . . loud. . . yes, that’s what he said. He told me that there was a show coming up. Hmmm….having never really been into any form of rockabilly I thought I’d give it a shot being that the character from the show is hilarious: robbing stores with a shotgun, making and doing meth with his sister, huffing paint, drinking homemade “party liquor,” terrorizing other characters by beatings, drinking while driving and even the occasional stalking of women. All this taught, to his “boy” in hopes of making him into a man. Basically applying every negative connotation of rural mountain folks from the Appalachian and sticking it to them via a fifteen minute cartoon. I had to go and witness this for myself.

Unknown Hinsons’ whole persona is creepy. The group as a whole are a band of weirdos that have to really be seen to properly describe. The drummer looks like an aging, white haired, half-dead, crazed mortician. To the right of the stage stood what appeared to be a Lurch-sized manikin that stayed completely still for an hour and ½ . By the end of the show my cohort finally convinced me that he had seen that manikin somewhere before, and when I’d finely “bought it” the Lurch-like creature started marching around the stage as if he was a soldier fresh from the Kremlin, stomping around the stage with poise for the grand finale.

Unknown Hinson puts on a show to say the least. He does everything from the comedic based hi-jinks of Jesco, to Jimmy Hendrix covers, to straight badass rocking psychobilly. His lyrics are themed with that of his television personality from drinking moonshine, to hating on cheating women, to staying clear of potential faggotry. This man even stirred up the ladies a little bit for a round of the old toe-tapping, shoe-shuffling, hip-swinging ass-grind, that you’d rarely expect from such a genre.

Kudos to Unknown Hinson for bringing his own styling that has named him the “king of country-western troubadours.” You can find him and the Squidbillies on Adult Swim.

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