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River Jam Artist Preview: The Cole Trains

June 15, 2020June 23, 2020 Brad Beheler 0 Comments

Sprouting from the deserts of Arizona is an Americana powerhouse of a band co-fronted by Texan Shane Britt. Britt is joined by TJ Taylor at the forefront of the roots rock project which borrows as much from Red Dirt as it does the larger sonic sounds of Tom Petty and Foo Fighters. Speaking of the Foos, the Trains debut record, Lucky Stars, was recorded with Cody Canada at Dave Grohl’s Studio 606 in Los Angeles. This is a band on the come-up that has been touched with greatness and is paying it forward. We don’t get bands from Arizona torching

Album Reviews

John Baumann – Country Shade

June 4, 2020June 23, 2020 Brad Beheler 0 Comments

John Baumann is one of the finest young songwriters plying his trade in Texas and beyond at the moment. He’s developed a knack for hard-scrabble emotional lyrics paired with sneakily infectious lyrics. He’s as adept at drawing from the well of personal experience as he is observation and imagination. That’s not an easy trick for any songwriter to learn, yet Baumann mastered it all before age 30. He’s experienced a lot of love and loss in his young life, including the uber impactful experience of unexpectedly losing his father as a young man. This loss informs even the brightest moments

Texas Treasures

Bleu Edmondson

May 18, 2020May 27, 2020 Brad Beheler 0 Comments

The first time I heard the name Bleu Edmondson, it came from the lips of a SMU sorority girl who was more well to do than anyone I had ever previously met at that point in my life. We were co-revelers at your standard college kegger. She was in the Hill Country with some friends and my group ended up near hers in the line to fill our plastic cups. She was talking about how her parents were going to throw her a huge rager out in Lakeway just because. They told her she could book any band she wanted.

Face The Music

Going Live: The Hits

May 18, 2020May 27, 2020 Brad Beheler 0 Comments

What does live music look like now? What will it look like moving forward? There is so much uncertainty and too many unknowns to predict what it will look like with any degree of specificity. Since around March 16 it’s looked like a flurry of live streamed performances across various social media platforms. There have been hits and misses. We started our very own GW Covid Concert Series back in that mid March timeframe with Jack Barksdale. We attempted to be innovative and involve Twitch, Instagram and YouTube as the platforms. It sounded and looked great. The interface was super

Album Reviews

Wade Bowen/Randy Rogers – Hold My Beer Volume 2

May 8, 2020May 27, 2020 Brad Beheler 0 Comments

The Hold My Beer Volume 1 release from Wade Bowen and Randy Rogers dropped five years ago. It was a rallying testament to the type of classic country music that they grew up on. Lloyd Maines punched all the right buttons and the songs selected made a statement from the opening single “Standards” to the infectious radio single worthiness of “Ladybug”. Five years later we now have Volume 2. Bowen and Rogers reconvened the same cast of characters and upped the fun quotient. This is the country music of the late 70s and 80s that evokes the best of Moe

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July 2020: Defending the Music

July 6, 2020July 6, 2020 Brad Beheler 0

“Man, that song sucks!” That was the response I got as I commandeered the state of the art Pioneer cd player in my buddy’s maroon Pontiac Grand Am to play him the brand new Foo Fighters record that had just come out. That was 25 years ago this week. My peer group was comprised of folks who loved 90’s country like Garth, 90’s hip-hop like Snoop and anything heavy metal. Pantera and Metallica were the top two favorites, but we all loved anything heavy and loud. We were also music snobs without knowing what that meant. Our conversations veered all