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So, what do you do if you are a Texas country supergroup and want to put out a better album than your last? You do just that!
The Panhandlers (Josh Abbott of The Josh Abbott Band, William Clark Green, John Baumann, and Cleto Cordero the front man of Flatland Cavalry) got after it again. March 3rd they will be releasing another ode to their home and stomping grounds, west Texas, with Tough Country.
Imagine yourself, after a hard day, reclining by a bonfire with the one you love, wrapped in a blanket. The night is crisp and the sky is filled with stars. Taking in all of God’s natural beauty… This is the best way that I can describe Flatland Cavalry’s new EP Songs To Keep You Warm. It is all that, in sonic form. The overall effect of the album is low key, but not to be confused with lacking in depth or content.
Unlike their previous releases the band went with a slower paced, acoustic sound. One that carries this theme well. Cleto says of the new EP that
They say to rise you gotta fall. Sometimes that means it feels like the bottom is falling out and you’re losing everything. Since spring of 2020, that feeling has been common for many, and for some in the music industry, like the Vandoliers, they didn’t even know if their new self-titled album, The Vandoliers, would ever even be heard. Fast forward to 2022: Not only have they opened for Flogging Molly and Turnpike Troubadours, but they toured Europe for the first time and scored a spot on Flogging Molly’s Salty Dog Cruise. Now they’re about to release their fourth album and this may be the best album the Vandoliers have made. If you’ve ever attended a Vandoliers show, it’s a range of emotions. You’ll hear fist-pumping rowdy drinking songs, beautifully crafted story songs and heart-stirring ballads. Listening to the new album, The Vandoliers, is no different. Upon first listen, you pick your favorites, then you listen again to the lyrics and instrumentals and it’s likely that favorites will emerge. Maybe it’s the hot licks from Travis Curry’s fiddle, the keyboard stylings of Cory Graves or the distinctive voice of Josh Fleming, that make it hard to pick just one. Whatever it is, it’s an album you’re going to want to let live on your turntable for the foreseeable future.
15 years into his music career, William Clark Green found himself turning 35 and suddenly forced off the road by the pandemic. Like so many other artists he took that time to take a hard look at what he was doing and re-evaluate everything. “It’s like, ‘Where am I at in life? Where do I want to be? Where did I think I would be?’ Not being able to work [during the lockdown], I had a lot of time to sit and think about myself, and what’s really locking me down,” Green says. The result of that self-scouting is Baker Hotel, his sixth studio album (out on March 28 and released on his own Bill Grease Records label).
