Bayou Hard Hat

Blackgrass with driving banjo, bluesy fiddle, trap-swing drum bounce, and stomping acoustic bass; verse rides tight worksite imagery and gritty low-end vocal grit, pre-chorus opens with lifted harmony stacks and a rising fiddle line, chorus hits with gang shouts and clipped call-and-response; bridge drops to bare banjo and a lonely fiddle cry before the final chorus comes back bigger. Close-mic male vocal, rough-edged and intimate, with shouted doubles, short delay throws on the hook, and bright punchy mix with dusty twang