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“I guess my music is a little weird and dark for the good-time crowd.”Ģ014’s blindingly good Metamodern Sounds In Country Music was a psychedelic foray into cosmology and metaphysics a deep spiritual quest that included songs about alien life and hallucinogens. “I couldn’t feel more outside of that world people associate with modern country music,” he says. He also appeals to the alternative set a progressive outlaw who cites Radiohead, Tool and Nirvana for being as influential as the Stanley Brothers and the old-time bluegrass of his Kentucky roots. Blessed with a majestic voice that places him in the great lineage of Haggard and George Jones, his countrypolitan purity makes him a banker with the traditionalists. It’s not difficult to understand his popularity. The last three years have felt like ten, because so much has happened.” “When you’re on the train it’s hard to tell how fast it’s going. “It all feels a bit foggy,” he admits, prior to going on stage at a sold-out gig in Oslo. Last September he was voted Artist Of The Year at the Americana Awards and, more recently, scored a No.3 album on the Billboard chart.

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He’s shared stages with John Prine, Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson, appeared on US TV shows including Letterman and Conan, and packed in audiences across the States and Europe. Now he’s being fêted as country’s big-shot saviour.

Three years ago he was just another aspiring singer-songwriter in Nashville, stumping up his own money to record an album, only for his voice to be drowned out amid a sea of slick bro-country and Music Row pop. Sturgill Simpson’s rise to stardom has been little short of meteoric. “California to Caroline” (Cody Cannon, Aaron Raitiere, Mark Stephen Jones)ġ1.The Kentucky sailor-turned-songwriter was all adrift until he started making cosmic country albums about extra-terrestrials and the sea. “Bury My Bones” (John Jeffers, Tennessee Jet)ġ0. “Rolling Stone” (Cody Cannon, Adam Hood)Ħ. “Die Rockin’” (Cody Cannon, Ray Wylie Hubbard)ģ. They’ve formed a strong grassroots following in the Texas/Red Dirt scene. More Whiskey Myers songs will also be featured in the newest season of Yellowstone starting on June 19th.įrom Palestine, TX, Whiskey Myers was initially formed by Cody Cannon and John Jeffers, and was inspired early on by the music of Hank Williams Jr.

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Not just their music, but the band itself was featured in an episode of the Paramount Network’s original series Yellowstone starring Kevin Costner in July of 2018, causing their sales to spike and creating national and international interest in Texas music’s premier Southern rock band. Though Whiskey Myers has been around for over 10 years, you get a sense this is a band that is about to hit their stride and this new, self-titled record could be the catalyst. As you can imagine, it’s gritty, raw, and loud, and makes reference in one of the early verses about hearing “Sway” by the Stones, which is appropriate since the band was recently announced as one of the openers on the upcoming Rolling Stones North America tour. The band also solicited the services of the Godfather of Texas Country Ray Wylie Hubbard on the lead track for the record, “Die Rockin’, co written with Cody Cannon. Whiskey Myers also worked with notable songwriters Brent Cobb, Adam Hood, Dave Kennedy, Aaron Raitiere, and performer Tennessee Jet on the new album. Frontman Cody Cannon wrote five of the fourteen tracks solo, and guitarist John Jeffers contributed three of his own. Whiskey Myers decided to make this a self-titled affair since they produced the album themselves after working with Dave Cobb on their last record Mud from 2016, and because they feel this new album embodies their sound and spirit better than ever. This wild-assed group of east Texans recently took enough time off from tearing down the road to record their fifth album, which will be released on September 27th. Well it comes flying right in your face whenever Whiskey Myers takes the stage or gets cued up on the stereophonic speakers, so much so it’s more apt to label them Southern rock, if not rock n’ roll entirely in some selections. Travis Tritt once wondered aloud where the hell the drive in country had gone.