Knoxville’s Mic Harrison And The High Score’s 2025 effort Peach Blossom Youth (Deaf Goat/Real Much)—produced by the esteemed Eric “Roscoe” Ambel (formerly of the Del-Lords, the Yayhoos and Joan Jett And The Blackhearts)—is another fine collection of straight-ahead, bar-band (in a good way) Americana. In fact, you won’t find many better purveyors of such.
So it’s our pleasure to premiere the video for “Scrap Iron Man,” which Harrison notes took multiple rewrites to “get to the truth.”
“I was riding down a Knox County (Tenn.) back road a few years ago, and I saw an old man with white hair and a white beard in a tiny truck overloaded with scrap iron,” says Harrison. “He reminded me of a guy named Bobby Jack back in West Tennessee where I grew up. He did pretty much anything to make money: scrap iron, firewood, moonshine and probably a little meth. He was the kind of person your parents told you to stay away from—a real outcast, but I’m drawn to outcasts. I didn’t know him personally, but I thought, ‘This man must have a deep story.’ I think I just scratched the surface with this song. I may have to do a follow-up.”
The video, conceived and directed by Simon Bosworth (who also created the album’s artwork), features live footage shot by Andy Alisago and Kevin Spodnik from the High Score’s set opening for the legendary Superdrag at NYC’s Bowery Ballroom last year.
—Matt Hickey; photo by Annie Clark
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