The Texas Gentlemen

One Liner: Roots rock by a badass backing band out on their own

Wikipedia Genre: No Wikipedia, Roots Rock, Americana, Southern Rock
Home:  Dallas

Poster Position: 25
Day: Sunday at 12:15
Weekend One Only.

Thoughts: Frickin' awesome.  Like Southern Culture on the Skids met up with Little Feat to make a Allman Brothers album with the ghost of Jimi Hendrix and an occasional appearance from Waylon Jennings ghost.  They don't have a Wikipedia page, but their Spotify bio makes them sound interesting - a studio band and gig band for big time guys like George Strait, Ed Sheeran, and Kris Krisofferson, and small fry acts like Paul Cauthen and Kirby Brown (and also apparently Leon Bridges and Shakey Graves).  They only have one album, and the mythology on it is that their main guy, Beau Patrick Bedford, had booked time at Fame Recording Studios in Muscle Shoals, to produce an album for another artist, but when that other artist failed to show up, Bedford called his buddies from the band and they made good use of the studio time.  TX Jelly is the album, released in 2017, and it kinda rules.

The top song, by a good-sized chunk, is the mostly-instrumental funk jam burner called "Habbie Doobie," with 478k streams.

Funky junk is the first layer, with a little slice of Wonder's "Boogie on Reggae Woman," and some rad guitar licks and barroom piano, like a big party where no armadillos got hurt.  This article claims that the song was their jam opener without a name, and they just started calling it Habbie Doobie, without any deeper meaning to the name.  Well, OK, but I would have liked it more if you had a reason for that weird name.  Either way, it kind of rules.

But then the band tosses a curveball out and does "Superstition," which sounds more like Paul McCartney doing a sax-drooled love track that also happens to mention ghost fellatio.  Or the oddly lyricked and kind of mournful "Trading Paint" about road rage tough guys.  But I'm going to present you with the excellent "Shakin' All Over," even though it isn't in their top four.  51k streams.

Live version, so slightly tweaked versus the album track, but you get the idea.  Some guitar explosions, some deep down soul roughness, good harmonies.  I dig it.  "Pain" is also cool, and their second-most jammed tune at 180k streams.  Funkier, kinda Beatles-y.  Then the third most popular track is on some Aaron Neville/Sam Cooke shit - "Bondurant Women."  They made a super weird, kinda funny extended video for that last song.

I can't think of the last time I looked at a YouTube video that had zero comments.  I mean, someone out there is always going to say "awesome!" or "you dudes suck ass!" or "You cn Earns big monies if you work from home in my program!!"  Weird.  But kind of a funny, low rent take on the Hands on a Hard Body movie.

I dig the tunes, would love to see them, although as usual, they are first weekend only.  Booo.