![]() ![]() 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. $35-$85 at ’s something gorgeously righteous about the heavy and unabashed Southern rock that Whiskey Myers throws down. But we’ll be playing some new stuff.” Whiskey Myers “You know, back in the day maybe you were excited to show people new material and stuff and you put four to six in the set and people just kind of stand there and look at you with a blank look because they don’t really know what’s going on. “We’ve kind of learned that process by trial and error,” he said of curating a setlist. While out on tour, Cannon said the group would be mixing a few of the new songs off of “Tornillo” into the set, but won’t neglect the fan-favorites. I’m not interested in that stuff at all.” ![]() They’re telling you what to do and giving you deadlines to make stuff. It’s kind of a partnership, but not really. That’s what you’re essentially doing, you’re working for somebody. “Now we’re so far into it, like hell, why would I want to do that now? I don’t want a boss. ![]() “It’s like why wouldn’t you do it yourself and own it?” he said. Like the self-titled album, “Tornillo” was self produced by the band, which is fitting for a group that’s been an independent act since day one.Ĭannon said going the do-it-yourself route seemed like the only viable option for Whiskey Myers, and having turned down overtures from labels in the past, he doesn’t foresee a scenario where the band would benefit from signing a label deal. Now comes “Tornillo,” and the band is poised to reach an even larger audience. The band was even invited out to play the Palomino Stage at the 2019 Stagecoach Country Music Festival in Indio that year. The band went into the pandemic-forced break from activity more popular than ever. When the band’s self-titled fifth album arrived in September 2019, it topped the Billboard country album chart and landed at No. “That was the first time we ever had that happen a platform like that to reach those people.”Īlmost immediately, album sales, streams and crowd sizes at Whisky Myers concerts took a jump. “Just us being an independent band and never really trying to write radio songs or take them to radio in any certain way, we had never had a platform to reach millions of people like that at once,” Cannon said. Viva! Pomona creator Rene Contreras talks about the evolution of the DIY festĪt the time, Cannon said, he and his bandmates didn’t think a whole lot about their involvement in “Yellowstone,” but he now realizes what a major moment it was. ![]()
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