Braxton Keith (2025)

One Liner:  Young guy doing classic-sounding Nashville country

Wikipedia Genre:  No Wikipedia, but country

Home: Midland, Texas

Sunday.

Thoughts:  This cat was at ACL last month, pulling an afternoon slot on Weekend Two's Saturday.  I wasn't there.

Picture-perfect classic Nashville country.  The kind of stuff singing about all of the different tropes he can come up with for "Honky Tonk City."  Also, he looks like he is eight years old, but with a little fake moustache glued to his upper lip.

I mean, WTF is that.  For real.  

Not to be confused with Keith Braxton, who was a professional basketball player who played his college ball for Saint Francis.  That is who Wikipedia thinks I want to know about.  But this fella is from Midland, Texas.  There is honestly not enough written about him.  I know he has two little brothers and counts country royalty like Bob Wills, Hank Williams, and Merle Haggard as his heroes.  So, we'll just let the tunes do the talking.

First single was in 2019, and his first EP was 2020's Neon Dreams.  That one has his top streamer with "Cold Hard Steel and Sand."  3.2 million streams.

Kind of like good old Don Edwards singing classic cowboy tunes, and yet he's singing about oil men instead.  I like it.  His voice is silly good, like he just sounds effortlessly cool.

After that one EP, its just more singles.  No real album here in the collection.  His currently most popular tune is 2024 single "Cozy," with 803k streams.

That is way too much foot movement.  I don't care what they are up to, that is too much foot movement.  His cover of "Driving My Life Away" is excellent.  "Mama's Song" is lovely, kind of reminds me of an early Pat Green sound, but with a cool autobiographical tilt.  I guess his dad is a doctor from Ft. Stockton.  Now I know even more about him!

Pretty solid.  Definitely a better fit for Two Step Inn than ACL, but this guy has a cool thing going on.