Watch The Dirty Heads' Mellow Live at Rolling Stone Set

Hard-partying SoCal band the Dirty Heads, one of Rolling Stone's Best New Bands of 2010, recently brought their mellow reggae-rock grooves to our studios for an exclusive Live at Rolling Stone session. The band was accompanied by buddy Rome Ramirez, who happens to be the new singer of Sublime With Rome and also features on the band's radio hit "Lay Me Down."

Check out candid photos of the Dirty Heads and more of our best breakout acts of the year.

The breakout band and Rome performed a pair of tracks from their debut disc Any Port in the Storm for us: Up top, watch the Dirty Heads' laidback "Stand Tall," and down below check out "Lay Me Down" and "Believe," which name-checks main of the band's influences: The Beastie Boys, marijuana, Stevie Ray Vaughn, more marijuana and, of course, Sublime.

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Song Stories

“(We're Not) The Jet Set”

George Jones and Tammy Wynette | 1973

George Jones and Tammy Wynette were still married when they recorded the tongue-in-cheek "(We're Not) The Jet Set." The lyrics, written by Nashville songwriter Bobby Braddock, who also penned Wynette's "D-I-V-O-R-C-E" and Jones' "He Stopped Loving Her Today," make fun of the good life by declaring, "We're not the Jet Set/We're the old Chevrolet set." Braddock recalled that while writing the song, he needed the name of a city that evened out the rhyme he had with "Riviera" and "Missourah." “I got out a Rand McNally atlas," he said. "In the first part are the maps. The last part is an alphabetical listing of cities. I wanted a rustic, small-time sound. I went to the listing for Missouri. And I found 'Festus.' I loved the sound of it."

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