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"Kings of Leon started out as preacher&amp;apos;s sons forbidden to listen to anything but church music and turned into the new gods of dirty Southern rock &amp;amp; roll. Austin Scaggs traveled around the world with the band of brothers for Rolling Stone&amp;apos;s new cover story, on newsstands now. Here&amp;apos;s a guide to the hard-rocking, hard-living Followills&amp;apos; best tracks .\n\n&amp;quot;Molly&amp;apos;s Chambers&amp;quot;\nThe dirty, flirty riff-chugging mess of a debut single that got the Followill boys dubbed the &amp;quot;Southern Strokes&amp;quot; (ugh). They had it, we wanted it. Fire up the General Lee.\n\n&amp;quot;Happy Alone&amp;quot;\nTheir 2003 debut Youth and Young Manhood&amp;apos;s bounciest tune. Caleb babbles about dancing around in your high heels and cherry lipstick and Lord knows what else as he conjures the spirit of Jerry Lee Lewis&amp;apos; heathen boogie and the Velvet Underground&amp;apos;s depraved punk rock. Great gutbucket guitar solo too.\n\n&amp;quot;Trani&amp;quot;\nA heartwarming codeine-mouthed tale of hick-boy hookers hanging around the Greyhound Station going down on whoever&amp;apos;s got a bump of coke and a smoke &amp;#x2014; not exactly Newt Gingrich&amp;apos;s vision of life in the New South. The Exile On Main Street guitars and slow-burning swagger make it menacing. Caleb&amp;apos;s empathetic singing makes it kinda tender.\n\n&amp;quot;The Bucket&amp;quot;\nOn the band&amp;apos;s 2005 Aha Shake Heartbreak, Caleb&amp;apos;s singing matured (or regressed, depends on your perspective) into an unintelligible moonshine &amp;apos;n&amp;apos; madness grumble that sounded like he got up every morning and poured axel grease on his pancakes. This rumbling ramble tamble jam is an excellent case in point.\n\n&amp;quot;King of the Rodeo&amp;quot;\nAha Shake Heartbreak&amp;apos;s ode to a &amp;quot;cowgirl king of the rodeo&amp;quot; is one of their punchiest blurts of Dixie new wave &amp;#x2014; it&amp;apos;s wound tighter than a goose&amp;apos;s ass and it flips and twists like a possum in the bathtub. A masterstroke of Southern Strokesness.\n\n&amp;quot;Knocked Up&amp;quot;\nThe band&amp;apos;s great 2007 record Because of the Times opened with the story of Seth Rogen and Kathryn Heigl as seen through the eyes off two small-town fuck-ups on a cannonball run away from the scolding parents and judging world that&amp;apos;s trying to tear them apart. It&amp;apos;s seven minutes long, the guitars explode like backfiring V8 engines and when Caleb sings &amp;quot;I don&amp;apos;t care what no one says we&amp;apos;re gonna have a bay-bee&amp;quot; he&amp;apos;s a perfect mix of righteous outlaw and proud pappy.\n\n&amp;quot;Charmer&amp;quot;\nPixies-style bass wonder-thud makes nooky with saturation strike guitar and Caleb screeches like he&amp;apos;s getting goosed by the Beast Master himself. When he sings &amp;quot;she&amp;apos;s always looking at me&amp;quot; about the West Virginia lass who&amp;apos;s crushed his soul he sounds borderline psychotic and borderline awesome too.\n\n&amp;quot;On Call&amp;quot;\nAtmospheric guitar churn, wham-bam drum thump and Caleb yowling with all the sweetness a real man can stomach about how he&amp;apos;s &amp;quot;on call&amp;quot; for your affection like some hillbilly love doctor.\n\n&amp;quot;Sex On Fire&amp;quot;\nThe single from last year&amp;apos;s Only by the Night is a lithe, liquid shot of Southern grunge ecstasy. Note: the phrase &amp;quot;hey, your sex is on fire&amp;quot; probably works for these dudes but don&amp;apos;t try it at next time your closing the deal on some booze-loosened accounts manager at Buffalo Wild Wings.\n\n&amp;quot;Crawl&amp;quot;\nOnly By the Night pumps their sound into stadium rock. This sticky-grooved rocker suggests Pearl Jam as apocalyptic fire-breathers, raining holy wrath down on the &amp;quot;crucified USA.&amp;quot;\n\nFor Austin Scaggs&amp;apos; feature &amp;quot;God, the Devil and Kings of Leon,&amp;quot; check out our new issue on stands now."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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