“I still fly that Southern flag/ whistling Dixieland enough to brag,” sings Cobb brashly on the track. Much of their early success was built on 2011’s “Ballad of a Southern Man,” a tune that seems to balance Chris Knight and James McMurtry literary impulses with an anti-PC reclamation of Southern pride that makes no bones about its love of guns, God and, most disturbingly, that damn flag. Like Jennings and unlike many of the other more progressive-leaning acts that Cobb has worked with, it’s difficult to deny that there’s a certain brand of cantankerous blue-collar conservatism that runs through the group as well. “But we’re very lucky to be able to do what we do.” “It’s catching lightning in the bottle, how something that’s not commercial becomes commercial all of a sudden,” Cannon notes. For now, though, they are just happy selling out gradually bigger clubs as they continue their road warrior ways. There has to be some hope in Whiskey Myers, given the success Cobb has had, particularly with acts like Stapleton, that a higher commercial echelon is waiting for them. Maybe subconsciously you take things from your influences and stuff, but that’s just how we sound.” “I don’t think we were thinking about any of that really we were just playing music and it sounded that way,” he demurs. It just kinda happened, you know?”Īlthough the group came up in the Red Dirt scene of Texas, rife with Americana and alt-country-leaning talents, Cannon also doesn’t like to draw much of a distinction between that tradition and the earlier Southern rock and outlaw country lineage that his songs seem a bit more steeped in. “We’ve pretty much known each other our whole lives. “A lot of us are kin and just grew up playing ball and stuff,” he shrugs. He’s fairly casual about how he and fellow guitarists Cody Tate and John Jeffers began building the rock workhorse that became Whiskey Myers. He comes across as an unassuming fellow, steeped in a live-and-let-live ethos that enthuses the band’s music and is endemic to a certain brand of Southern blue-collar identity. “It’s pronounced Pal-est-TEEN,” drawls Cody Cannon, frontman and primary songwriter for the band, as he gently corrects the pronunciation of the group’s hometown. Coming out of a small town in Texas with the kind of ferocious guitar sprawl and rebellious twang of obvious forbearers like the Allman Brothers and especially Lynyrd Skynyrd, the band was built for honky-tonk beer swilling and redneck fist-pumping in the best “damn-the-torpedoes” fashion. A destination for music fans to not only discover their favorite new artists, but gain exclusive access to their music career as it unfolds, through our relationship with Live Nation's owned and operated venues.There’s something gorgeously righteous about the heavy and unabashed Southern rock that Whiskey Myers throws down. Ones To Watch is Live Nation's emerging music blog and platform. And "Trailer We Call Home" proves Cannon has a gift for painting a portrait of working class struggles and the redemptive power of home. Lead singer Cody Cannon emerges as a startlingly versatile songwriter, equally adept at writing a rollicking tribute to the country gateway drug that is Hank Williams ("Hank") or a stately piano ballad that climaxes in a smoking hot twin guitar solo ("Stone"). 'Mud' is a natural extension of the band's raucous live sound and their dedicated approach to songcraft, from the ominous backroads buildup of album opener "On The River" to the screaming guitars on the Rich Robinson (Black Crowes) co-write "Frogman," a desert-rock blues told from the perspective of a Navy SEAL missing the comforts of his southern home. The tour includes dates all around the country, including stops in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, and is presented by SiriusXM Outlaw Country. This announcement follows the 2016 release of the 'Mud,' which was recorded with Dave Cobb (Chris Stapleton, Sturgill Simpson, Jason Isbell) and debuted at #4 on the Billboard Country Charts in September while receiving praise from Rolling Stone, Texas Monthly, Vice Noisey and more (see below). Whiskey Myers has confirmed an extensive Live Nation " Ones To Watch" Tour in 2017.
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