Briscoe

One Liner: Local boys making folky rock fun
Wikipedia Genre: No Wikipedia, this is folk-rock, Americana, Saxophone-aided boogie
Home: Austin!

Poster Position: Second Quarter - Line 11
Day: Friday
Weekend One Only.

Thoughts:  I'm just going to claim credit for them being on the poster.  I keep saying their name each year after the Festival, when C3 asks for suggestions of who should be on the poster.  There is no way these dudes are commanding some huge fee to come and play, why not add them on here and make the world a better place?

I wrote up a show I saw from these guys a few years back.  "Briscoe is a neat little band - formed in part by two dudes who met at the same summer camp where I went approximately 3 million years ago.  Some friends got together a big group of people to go check out this show, part of a multi-week residency that the band did at C-Boys this summer.  We were legitimately the first people there, lined up outside of this little bar like we were Harry Styles fanboys lined up to get front row.  Someone bought a six pack of beer from the 7-11 across the street, and we waited for the doors to open.

I had never been to C-Boys before, but it is a cool venue (just very tight!).  The band was set up in the back corner, and some tables ran down the center of the room.  I wish we would have had the forethought to snag one of the booths on the far wall, would have made for a nice watching experience, but we just stood in the middle like goobers.

Anyway, they played a nice (although too short) set of originals and covers, with good backing and solid harmonies.  For a band that I had never even heard mentioned before, it really was a refreshingly wonderful thing to go to a new place and hear a really solid band with a bunch of friends.  Highly recommend the experience!"  

I've since seen them three more times - good times!  What I will say about their lives shows, in addition to that note above, is that the UT fraternity/sorority crowd is absolutely IN TO THE ACTION.  The Scoot Inn show I saw a year or two ago felt like a Fiji mixer.

And for good reason, as the dudes were UT students only a few years ago.  Truett Heintzelman and Philip Lupton, if I recall correctly from the anecdotes shared during those shows, were in the Christian fraternity BUX, and after cutting their teeth playing at camp, moved up to backyard parties at Texas, before opening for Caamp and Zach Bryan.  I have to provide this anecdote from their website:

It was during adolescence that Heintzelman and Lupton first met as teenagers at a summer camp on the outskirts of Kerrville, Texas. "I walked into camp as a 14 year-old redheaded kid who didn't know anybody at all, so I just kept my eyes on the ground," Lupton remembers. "A couple feet away from me was another person wearing the exact same pair of Chacos as me, and when we both looked up, it felt like we were looking in the mirror." Lupton and Heintzelman didn't just look alike; they were both drawn to similar music, too, from golden-era folk duos like Simon & Garfunkel to 21st century torchbearers like the Avett Brothers. They hit it off immediately, and at a talent show later that week, the two campers performed John Prine's "Paradise," laying the brickwork for the collaborative sound they'd eventually make as Briscoe."

They played "Paradise" at the Scoot Inn show for sure, and it was phenomenal.   I figured their big single would be "The Well," as that is the singalong king at the shows because of the chorus.  1.6 million streams and a spot on the 2023 album West of it All.

That is an absolutely beautiful property.  Thought maybe it was LLYC at first, but I don't think any of it was there.  Teh bigger streamers end up being two tracks from their 2020 EP - "She Burns Away" with 1.9 million and "Hooped Earrings" with 3.8 million streams.  Here is the latter.

Also imminently singalong able with that line about "some boy from L.A."  And you get a taste of that salty saxophone action in there as well.  Their most recent single on Spotify is a great cover of the Alabama Shakes song "Hold On."  Dig it.

Trust me - go check this one out and have a good time.