“Does it really take you for a ride, with ups and downs and some loops and sometimes you’re upside down?” “You want an album to be like a rollercoaster,” says Jeffers. The band draws as much inspiration from Nirvana as from Waylon Jennings, and Whiskey Myers bursts out of the gate with the raging “Die Rockin’,” followed by such bruisers as “Rolling Stone” and “Gasoline.” Over the course of fourteen tracks, though, songs expand, moods change and songs like “Bury My Bones” and “California to Carolina” explore different stories and emotions. and Jamey Johnson and racking up more than 300 million streams of their songs. non-stop, sharing stages with the likes of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Hank Williams Jr. Esquire called them "the real damn deal," while USA Today wrote that their music had “shades of Led Zeppelin and David Allen Coe.” They took their blistering live show across the U.S. ![]() With Early Morning Shakes, though, the rest of the world started to catch up to what Texas already knew. And then there’s that magical moment when the whole band hears it, your eyes get a twinkle - ‘That’s it, that’s us!’ It’s usually a no-brainer.” ![]() “We would run every single idea from everyone - some work and some don’t, but we give them all a shot. “There’s never a right or wrong answer when it comes to ideas,” he says. Jeffers emphasizes how that sense of collaboration and experimentation really defined their whirlwind eighteen days of recording at the Sonic Ranch studio, outside of El Paso. I think it just made it more authentically us.” “We loved a lot of things about our producers,” says Jeffers, “but it was time to be set free and do it ourselves - to take what we learned from them and put it all together, figure it out. GRAMMY-winner Dave Cobb (Chris Stapleton, Jason Isbell, Brandi Carlile, Sturgill Simpson) helmed the band’s last two albums, but this time around, they felt ready to take the wheel. The big change for Whiskey Myers was the decision by the group (which also includes Cody Tate on guitar, Jeff Hogg on drums, bassist Jamey Gleaves and Tony Kent playing keyboards and percussion) to produce the album themselves. “A country song could end up a rocker or the other way around - it’s extremely organic, and that’s always been us as a band.” ![]() “There’s never a plan or the sense that we need to make a song sound a certain way,” adds guitarist John Jeffers. We just try to go in and write a good song, whether it’s country or rock and roll or blues.” “We just bring our songs to the table and make it sound like us,” says Cannon. And that was before the group was featured in Kevin Costner’s TV series Yellowstone in 2018 (not just on the soundtrack, but on screen, performing in a bar), which propelled the band’s entire catalogue into the Top 10 of the iTunes country chart.īut playing to larger and wilder crowds - including audiences of more than 100,000 at the Download Festivals in London and Paris - didn’t cause Whiskey Myers to change their approach this time around. We Thank you for you continued support!Įach one of the releases from Whiskey Myers has been bigger and bigger - following their break-out third album, 2014’s Early Morning Shakes, their most recent record, Mud, climbed to No. ****** Please be advised that all events are subject to change as Coif restrictions are lifted or placed. ****** NEW DATE !!!! Previously purchased tickets will be honored at the door.
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