The Fantastic Plastic Country Band
★ Country Western Covers of The Plastic Fantastics ★
[ Steel guitar • Fiddle • Industrial soul • Boot-stompin' rage ]
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What happens when you give a band of session musicians, ex-rodeo clowns, and one former welding instructor a stack of Plastic Fantastics bootlegs and a mandate to translate them into country? Magic. Or at least something that sounds a lot like magic at 2am with a cold one in your hand.
About The Band
The Fantastic Plastic Country Band emerged from the smoky back rooms of the Texas honky-tonk circuit in 2003 — the same year The Plastic Fantastics were melting faces on the industrial rock festival circuit. The connection was no accident. Frontwoman and multi-instrumentalist Wanda "Wrenchhead" McCoy had been obsessively transcribing Plastic Fantastics riffs onto her lap steel guitar for two years, convinced there was something profoundly country about all that mechanical fury.
Turns out she was right. Strip away the distortion and the drum machines, and what The Plastic Fantastics were really writing were cowboy songs for the post-industrial age — ballads about loneliness, machines, and the desperate hunger to feel something real. The FPCB just made that subtext into text, swapping synthesizers for fiddle, guitar feedback for pedal steel, and chrome-plated anger for the weathered ache of classic country.
Debut album A Tribute to ThePlastic Fantastics landed with a cult thud. Critics called it "baffling and brilliant," "the most important concept album about nothing in particular," and "a genuine honky-tonk miracle." Fans just called it Tuesday.