I don’t know why I am surprised that whenever I watch Austin City Limits I find another band I had never heard of, and I love their music.
I saw that the Los Lonely Boys were going to be on last Suturday, and since The Meester has fallen in love with his “ta-tar” (guitar), I thought that he would should see some of the best guitar music I’ve heard in a long time.
After we watched rocked out to Los Lonely Boys a band called the Gourds were up next. Wow. What a bunch of great good ole’ redneck feel good music.
From their website: Austin, Texas’ The Gourds have never been much on sentiment. Since the band started defining Gourds Music, as it has come to be known, … they have chugged through America fueled by music and a near-pathological need for a good time. And while songwriters Kevin Russell and Jimmy Smith have written the most dense, reference-laden country songs of the last 10 years and almost single-handedly made a place for deep thought in a genre of “Honky Tonk Badonkadonks” they have, for the most part, shied away from the tear-in-my-beer ballads that made country music a commercial powerhouse over the last 50 years.
You got that right. Here’s my favorite new song of the week…The Lower 48.
I LOVE Austin City Limits!!! The old and new episodes are great!