If hell has a honky tonk, James “Rebel” O’Leary is on the jukebox.
 
O’Leary and his band were one big happy family from York, Pennsylvania who played anywhere that had an electrical outlet, from county fairs to shopping malls. According to locals, they were as ubiquitous as fleas in a dog pound.

These folks managed to appear at damn near every public function imaginable, from the annual York, PA Halloween Parade, to almost any public holiday celebration that had a place to plug in their un-tuned electric guitars. Not that they were hired to be there. I’d imagine most of their gigs were done “gratis” since I can’t imagine any person even allowing them to perform for free, so bad were they. The O’Learys had a van, painted with their name and a poorly-rendered red/white/blue/stars/stripes color scheme, that could be spotted traversing all over the York County, PA area.

They were truly, truly, a “legend in their own mind.” I recall that they made trips to the annual “Fanfest” event in Nashville, bringing back photos of themselves arm-in-arm with various legitimate country music stars. Fact was, many of their pictures were that of posing with lifesize cardboard cut-outs of the celebrities!

Combining the musical chops of The Shaggs, the hairdos of The Stooges (Moe not Iggy) and the fashion sense of a Sedona medicine man, O’Leary and his brood are to country music what pork rinds are to fine dining. Enjoy.
 

 
Thanks to Irwin Chusid.