Goodnight, Texas

 One Liner: Cross-country troubadours of folky Americana

Wikipedia Genre: Americana

Home: San Francisco and Chapel Hill

Poster Position: Level 5 (28)
Weekend Two Only.  

Saturday.

Thoughts:  Weird that this is on the very bottom line of the whole poster, and I like it more than a lot of the stuff above it.  This is a folk rock band named after the town of Goodnight, Texas, which is apparently the geographic midpoint between the members who write their songs - San Francisco and Chapel Hill.  They've even played in Goodnight several times, a town of all of 18 freaking people.  It is up in the panhandle, and named after the famous pioneer Charles Goodnight, who is the real life person that apparently inspired Woodrow F. Call.

Their hit song was used elsewhere to gain its notoriety - "The Railroad" was used in a Coors Banquet commercial (with a voiceover by Sam Elliott).  Which took me down a rabbit hole - multiple commercials for Coors on YouTube feature the gravelly tones of Mr. Elliott.  Weird. And then it was also used in the opening scenes of that terrible Tiger King show that everyone became fascinated with because of the damn COVID.  14.8 million streams.

Literally sounds like something that could have been made in the 1800's.  Feels like C3 missed a spot by not having these guys on the same day as the Mumfords.  They could party together all day.  That song is from their 2012 album A Long Life About Living, which was their debut.  "Jesse Got Trapped in a Coal Mine" is a good tune too.

One of the singers, Avi Vinocur has appeared multiple times with Metallica during concerts and on the Howard Stern show, which is a really weird thing.  2018's Conductor has a Nickel Creek vibe to it.  "Borrowed Time" on 2022's How Long Will It Take Them to Die has a jam band vibe going on in there.  The most recent single kind of makes me think of a quiet Dawes.  They have a lot of great song names - "A Bank Robber's Nursery Rhyme," "Jane, Come Down From Your Room," or "I'm Going to Work on Maggie's Farm Forever."  The top song from their most recent album, "Hypothermic" has 2.1 million streams and a brooding storyline.

Now, this is another one of those bands that really feel like they are better suited for the Cactus Club rather than a massive stage in the heat of the day, but whatever, I can also see them being fun when they kick in the jams.  I'd go check it out.