Traveller

One Liner: Folky acoustic featuring Robert Ellis
Wikipedia Genre: No Wikipedia page
Spotify Says Similar To: Not on Spotify (see below)
Home: No clue, I'm going to guess Houston since that is where Robert Ellis is from?

Poster Position: 19
Slot: ?

Thoughts: Interesting.  The ACL bio for this band is non-existent, and they just provide a link for one YouTube video and a link to a "website" which is actually a link to Instagram.  Well, Spotify has a bunch of bands called Traveller or some variation of Traveller (listed in the order they appear on Spotify):

• Traveller - Not in English, the cover of the album is in Asian characters.  One song over 1k plays.
• Chippewa Travellers - Crazy Native American chanting and drums.  No song over 1k streams.
• Traveller - heavy metal screaming.  No song over 1k streams.
• Traveller - thumping club mixes of a song called "Bright Sign" (68k streams) and then also a metal-ish rock instrumental called "I Want You," a chill instrumental called "Lazy Sunday," and a jam-band-ish rocker called "Mud, Wind and Dust," [sic, where is my oxford comma, dammit?] all of which have less than 1k streams.
• Euphonic Traveller - super chill electronic for use poolside in Ibiza (hundreds of thousands of streams)
• Time Traveller - roaring metal.  Top song at 153k.
• Reeltime Travellers - bluegrass.  Top song at 216k (that was used on the Cold Mountain soundtrack, FYI)
• The Traveller Band - Irish traditionals, each song barely over 1k streams.
• Travellers Music.  Hip hop, no song more than 1k streams.
• Travellers - old school reggae, a few songs over 1k, but barely.
• The Travellers - jumpin' and jivin' swing.  The only big songs are covers of Stones songs.
• Nate Traveller - hip hop.  Two songs, none with more than 1k streams.  Actually not bad.
• The Traveller - straight up techno beatzzz.  19k streams for top track.
• Last Traveller - folky Irish music.  1,049 for top track.
• Sotu the Traveller - trippy electronic, kind of Thievery Corp.  66k for top track.
• Travellers Lodge Atomic 8 - World music.  No clue where from, heavy on horns and, like, marimbas.  2k songs for top track.
• The Travellers - no clue what language their song titles are written in, but every city on their About page is in Malta, so I'm guessing that is Maltese?  37k for top track.
• The Tyme Travellers - rock-ish tunes that sound like they were made with an iPhone in the womb of a dead elephant.  2k for top track.
• The Incognito Traveller - mod flute and xylophone tunes?  What am I even doing now? 2k for top track.
• Ethel Waters & the Travellers.  1920's stuff.  46k streams.
• Die 3 Travellers.  Accordion.  Polkas.  I've made it to the 7th Circle of Traveller Hell.
• There are still a crapton more - Misterious [sic] Traveller, Drei Travellers, Pilgrim Travellers, Sunset Travellers, Mysterious Traveller, World Traveller, Mindprint Traveller, The Millennium Traveller, Electric Traveller, Space Traveller, Time Travellers, Arkansas Travellers, The Chilled Traveller, Travellers Journal, Perry & the Travellers, Sun Travellers, Susuehanna Travellers, The Canaan Travellers, Midnight Travellers, My Fellow Traveller, Mystic Traveller, Armchair Traveller [I SWEAR I'M NOT MAKING THIS SHIT UP], Joe Traveller, The Fellow Travellers, Grand Trunk Travellers, Taj Majal Travellers, Tricks Upon Travellers, Acoustic Travellers, etc.  I swear to God it goes for like another 50 band names.
• Wikipedia lists The Travellers as a Canadian band from the 50's.

All of that, as a very long winded way of saying: MAYBE YOU DUDES SHOULD LOOK AT A NAME CHANGE?!

So, with no Spotify music that I can find (because none of those bands above have a song called "Western Movies," which is the only hint I have about who these guys are), I gotta go with the YouTube videos.  Oh shit, that is Robert Ellis.  So watch the video for this one:

Robert Ellis has a great voice - very distinctive.  He came to ACL a few years ago.  Do you think these guys like Western movies when they are lying alone in their bed because they think old John Wayne was hot?  I think that is the message of the tune.  Nice harmonies, pretty good for just two acoustics and a big dumb red van.  The other song available on YouTube that I could find is their "first song," called "Nobody Makes it Out."

Sound on that one is terrible - you can hear the breeze blowing by their iPhone that is wedged on a rock balancing on a guitar case leaning up against a stump over across that clearing.  Although I do like the bird chirps in the second verse.  I think I'd rather just hear Robert Ellis again.

Recommend? No.