Mike Amabile offers a unique sound for all genres of music lovers. He blends his own style of Americana music with Southern Rock, Folk, Country and Roots Blues. This original style of music is accompanied by poetic lyrics. In fact, Mike started writing poetry as early as eleven years old. Mike’s music has been [...]
This band has plenty of practice straying from the simpler path. For a decade, Uncle Lucius had built its fan base the hard way, through relentless touring and restless searching. With no other option, they called on their die-hards for help. Hundreds of believers pledged tens of thousands of hard-earned dollars. Both humbled and [...]
Shellee Coley is a Texas-based singer-songwriter with three studio projects under her belt and a fourth on the way. Her songs often bring light to the not-so-celebrated parts of life and walk people through them, into growth and change. There is a clear spiritual undertone to her music that sets a listener up to [...]
“Brad Boyer has a little bit of West Texas in him, that dust gets all over everything.” — Joe Ely “It’s great to have the likes of Joe Ely and Cindy Cashdollar on this record, but Brad Boyer’s songs carry the record all by themselves. Some beautiful Texas ballads and some really rockin’ tunes [...]
Jake Ward is the "#1 Best Kept Secret" on the Texas music scene according to Texas Music Pickers, one of the premier web sites devoted to Texas music. Well, the secret is out, as Jake's third and fourth singles released to Texas radio, "Take my Hand" and "Lonely Street" both reached #1 on Texas [...]
"Headed up by local music icon Nick Gaitan, Umbrella Man is a quintessentially Houston band that mixes and matches the variety of Gulf Coast genres that find a musical home in this region. The group’s thumping bass, bright reedy accordion and ringing steel guitar blend in surprising but always recognizable ways. Country, rockabilly, zydeco [...]
We started our group in the summer of 2008 in Dallas, Texas having known each other through all of our other groups (Polyphonic Spree, Young Heart Attack, Slick 57, Rose County Fair, Hi-Fi Drowning.) It was an easy upstart and took no time jumping in head first. We both had songs that we felt [...]
When Terri Hendrix laced up her “Two Dollar Shoes” and began her journey as an independent recording artist 20 years ago, there was no map or handy guidebook to show her the way. Although she wasn’t the first artist to ever self-release an album, the DIY road was still years away from becoming the [...]
It happened during an ordinary refueling stop for the Dirty River Boys, the band on its way from Austin to Tulsa to kick off a six-date run. The van pulled up at a gas station and its occupants scattered, with Colton James hopping on his skateboard and heading over to a grocery store for [...]
American made music with combinations of blues, country, folk, and gospel. Honoring traditions and exploring new frontiers. The groove is set forth by D.B. Smythe on the cajon and accented by Sarah Lucylle’s refreshing washboard strokes. These two elements create a luring platform for the licks of Chris Shotliff’s guitar to dance upon. Their [...]
