Texas Gentlemen - Floor It - VINYL LP

Limited 150gm colored vinyl LP pressing, includes digital download. The Lone Star-bred collective, The Texas Gentlemen, takes it's cues from some of the iconic acts of the past - the quicksilver brilliance of The Wrecking Crew and Bob Dylan's one-time backers The Band are the most obvious examples. Founding member, Beau Bedford, who shares chief engineering and production responsibilities at Dallas' Modern Electric Sound Recorders, assembled The Texas Gentlemen as an all-purpose backing band for an eclectic array of singer-songwriters, including Leon Bridges, Nikki Lane, Jonathan Tyler and Paul Cauthen. TX Jelly moves between contemplative and raucous, encompassing the full breadth of the American experience. The music touches on blues, soul, folk, country, rock and gospel - from first track to last, you can feel The Texas Gentlemen reaching deep inside themselves and finding what's genuine - what illuminates the truth of the country's rich, complicated and singular artistic history - and delivering it the only way they know how real, raw and righteous.

2020 . Pop on Floor It!!!, the second full-length effort from the Texas Gentlemen, and prepare your eardrums to be hit with everything from woozy, brass-fueled Dixieland-style jazz ('Veal Cutlass'), to slinky, chicken-scratch country funk ('Bare Maximum') to lushly orchestrated pop-soul balladry ('Ain't Nothin' New')'and that's all in just the first 10 minutes of play time. While the Gentlemen's sound is clearly steeped in the classic roots, rock and pop music of the '60s and '70s, there's a dreamy (the lilting 'Sing Me to Sleep'), spacey ('Skyway Streetcar') and occasionally progressive ('Dark at the End of the Tunnel') element to what they do that seems to detach the music from belonging to any particular place and time. Add in elements of funk, soul, country, r&b, southern rock, gospel and essentially any other style that catches their musically omnivorous ears; an expansive and detailed approach to arrangement that sees the songs adorned with all manner of horns, strings and heavenly background vocals ('Hard Road') and you have a collection of tunes that is more than just a mere album. Rather, Floor It!!! is a rich and righteous ride. Album Tracks 1. Veal Cutlass 2. Bare Maximum 3. Ain't Nothin' New 4. Train to Avesta 5. Sing Me to Sleep 6. Last Call 7. She Won't 8. Easy St 9. Hard RD 10. Dark at the End of the Tunnel 11. Charlie's House 12. Skyway Streetcar 13. Floor It!!!

Limited vinyl LP pressing. The SteelDrivers' critically and commercially successful 2008 self-titled debut established the Nashville band as a force to be reckoned with. With Music Row songwriter Chris Stapleton at the helm - who has gone on to be a star in his own right- The SteelDrivers was praised for it's contemporary mix of blues, Americana and country, garnering a Grammy nomination, and the attention of singer Adele, who covered InchIf It Hadn't Been For LoveInch on her 2010 LP, 21. Although this album was a great success, Stapleton announced in April 2010, that he was leaving the band to focus on raising his family. Then his solo career took of spectacularly a few short years later. Album Tracks 1. Side A 2. Blue Side of the Mountain 3. Drinkin' Dark Whiskey 4. Midnight Train to Memphis 5. Midnight Tears 6. If You Can't Be Good, Be Gone 7. If It Hadn't Been for Love 8. Side B 9. Hear the Willow Cry 10. Sticks That Made Thunder 11. East Kentucky Home 12. To Be with You Again 13. Heaven