Hudson Ingram

One Liner:  Jack Ingram's son making legitimately solid Harry Styles-ish pop rock

Wikipedia Genre:  No Wikipedia, but this is singer-songwriter and boy-band-ish pop rock

Home: Austin, Texas

Poster Position: Late Addition
Weekend Two Only.
Sunday at 12:10.

BMI Stage.

Thoughts:  This fella looks like he is in high school with my kids and on first impression sounds like he an Austin kid channeling his inner Harry Styles.  Annoyingly, I am down to the artists now where they have no Wikipedia and more than likely the best way to research them is like Instagram and TikTok, which I will not be doing because all of that is blocked here at work.  But I found an article about him from January that explains a very gigantic fact about the boy - he is Jack Ingram's son.

Hard to believe that I have never written anything about Jack Ingram, but in my mind he is on the same level as Pat Green or (RIP) Charlie Robison or Cory Morrow.  He hosts an annual fundraiser with Matthew McConaughey, he appeared on that really good Marfa Tapes disc by Miranda Lambert, and he is one of the classic faces of the Texas country movement from the 90's.  So, this is his son, and the fact that this kid sounds really freaking clean and well-produced for a 17 year old starts to make some sense.

Taylor Swift wrote his father a hand-written note congratulating him on the birth of his son Hudson.  And then Hudson's first musical memory was apparently a TayTay live show.  Must be nice!  Just one album, 2024's Peace, Love, and Paranoia (I so appreciate the Oxford comma there because otherwise it would have been read like you were saying goodbye to Love and Paranoia, instead of listing those three things).  "Change Your Mind" is one that definitely sounds like Harry Styles.  But the top streamer is "Good as Gone," with 213k streams.

But you can hear it there too, right?  I mean, I think this guy's sound is phenomenal.  Hard to imagine that if he made it into the ears of every teenage girl in the world that he wouldn't catapult to stardom.  I'm sure there is a ton of nuance to the world of boy band adjacent sounding artists, but I think this is really catchy and enjoyable.  I honestly wonder if he was able to use some major producer on these songs, being that his dad knows people, or if this is really somehow just him in his dad's backyard studio crushing the beats.  His other biggest one is "Song About A Vampire," with 207k streams.

Live version, but you get the idea.  He's going more for the real deal rock band maneuver instead of the synth beat making thing.  Definitely looks like a 17 year old kid.  How freaking cool would it be to be a high school teenager just going into Arlyn Studios, where Gary Clark Jr. jams, and rocking out your tune with your best buds while your little brother films a music video for you.  Dammit.

This kid is legit.  Even before knowing who his famous father was, I think these are really good tunes.