William Beckmann

One Liner:  Honey-voiced classic country action

Wikipedia Genre:  No Wikipedia, but country

Home: Del Rio, Texas

Saturday.

Thoughts:  Really nice initial feeling on this guy.  His voice is fantastic.  No Wikipedia, unless this guy is also an American wrestler who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics to win the silver medal in freestyle welterweight competition.  The kid is from Del Rio, Texas, a town down on the border with Mexico.  I've never done Del Rio that I recall.  We used to cross over at Eagle Pass, a little ways south of there, but I don't think I've ever done Ciudad Acuna across from Del Rio.  But you can hear some of that border influence in here - "Danced All Night Long" includes some Spanish lyrics and some Mexican musical influence as well.  His bio says "He has spent the last year touring with artists including Parker McCollum, Hank Williams Jr., Charley Crockett, and the Randy Rogers Band in addition to selling out five of his own shows at the legendary Gruene Hall and headlining Billy Bob’s Texas."  Five sell-outs of Gruene Hall is pretty dang good!

Two albums - 2022's Faded Memories and 2023's Here's To You. Here's To Me.  None of the songs have just lit up the streaming world, even if I think they should be crushing it.  Top streamer is "Bourbon Whiskey" from the first disc.  2.1 million streams.

When that exceedingly youthful face puts that honey-rich voice out, it is really a strange juxtaposition.  He definitely looks too young to have that tumbler of whiskey in his hand, and yet his voice sounds like he's been sipping it for decades.  Damn pretty song.  Chris Isaak and Orville Peck are somewhere making out to that song right now.

Keeping things thematically sound, his top track from the newer album is called "Tennessee Drinkin'" and has 1.1 million streams.  Dude likes to drink, I guess.

The guitar at the start of that one makes me think of a Dwight Yoakum tune.  I wonder why the comments are turned off for that song on YouTube?  Another damn pretty song - a little livelier than the last one, but still the vocals are the showpiece over the top of a generically nice country tune.  He does an excellent cover of Springsteen's "I'm on Fire" as well as a couple of Christmas tunes that sound nice.  I'd go see him for sure.