Josh Abbott Band
| Josh Abbott Band | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Lubbock, Texas |
| Genres | Red Dirt, Texas Country |
| Years active | 2008-present |
| Labels | Pretty Damn Tough, Josh Abbott |
| Associated acts |
Eli Young Band Randy Rogers Band Casey Donahew Band Kacey Musgraves |
| Members |
Josh Abbott James Hertless Caleb Keeter Edward Villanueva Preston Wait Austin Davis |
Josh Abbott Band is an American Texas Country band from the state of Texas. It is composed of Josh Abbott (vocals, guitar), Austin Davis (banjo), Preston Wait (fiddle, guitar), Edward Villanueva (drums), James Hertless (bass) and Caleb Keeter (guitar).
Biography
Josh Abbott founded the band in 2006 in Lubbock, Texas while attending Texas Tech University where he was a member of the Texas Epsilon chapter of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity. He paused college, a thesis away from his Masters degree, to pursue a musical career full time, and founded the band with fraternity brothers Austin Davis, Neel Huey, and Drew Hurt. The band recorded a demo featuring "Taste" in 2007 and began touring in 2008. Huey and Hurt dropped out, and Preston Wait and Eddie Villanueva joined. James Hertless and Caleb Keeter would soon join in 2010. In 2009 the band recorded and released their first album "Scapegoat."
A second album, She's Like Texas, followed in 2010. This album has made the Top Country Albums charts.[1] Michael Berick of Allmusic rated it four stars out of five, comparing it to Steve Earle and saying that Abbott's songwriting showed "maturity". They recorded their first official sell out crowd at the World's Largest Honky Tonk "Billy Bobs Texas" located in the Historic Fort Worth Stockyards on February 10th, 2010 which sold 6,000 tickets.[2]
It includes the single "Oh, Tonight", which debuted at number 59 and peaked at 42 on the Country Songs charts in early 2011.[3] The song is a duet with Nashville Star season 5 finalist and Universal Music recording artist Kacey Musgraves.[2]
The band's third CD, Small Town Family Dream, was released on April 24, 2012. The second single, "Touch," was released in early February and was made available digitally on February 14. Its music video features reality TV star Melissa Rycroft and her husband Tye Strickland, another of Abbott's fraternity brothers. Other singles released from the album include "I'll Sing About Mine" and "She Will Be Free".
Discography
Albums
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country | US | US Indie | US Heat | ||
| Scapegoat |
|
— | — | — | — |
| She's Like Texas |
|
28 | — | 28 | 5 |
| Small Town Family Dream |
|
5 | 15 | 2 | — |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||||
Singles
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions |
Album | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country | US Bubbling [4] | |||
| 2010 | "She's Like Texas" | — | — | She's Like Texas |
| "Road Trippin'" | — | — | ||
| 2011 | "Oh, Tonight" (with Kacey Musgraves) | 44 | — | |
| "My Texas" (with Pat Green) | — | — | Small Town Family Dream | |
| 2012 | "Touch" | 41 | 8 | |
| "I'll Sing About Mine" | — | — | ||
| 2013 | "She Will Be Free" | — | — | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | ||||
Music videos
| Year | Video | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | "She's Like Texas" | Evan Kaufmann |
| "Road Trippin'" | ||
| 2011 | "Oh, Tonight" (with Kacey Musgraves) | |
| 2012 | "Touch" | |
| 2013 | "I'll Sing About Mine" | |
| "She Will Be Free"[5] |
References
- ↑ "She's Like Texas chart positions". Allmusic. Retrieved 1 February 2011.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Berick, Michael. "She's Like Texas review". Allmusic. Retrieved 1 February 2011.
- ↑ "Chart highlights". Billboard. 31 January 2011. Retrieved 1 February 2011.
- ↑ "Bubbling Under Hot 100 Week of March 3, 2012". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved September 13, 2012.
- ↑ "CMT : Videos : Josh Abbott Band : She Will Be Free". Country Music Television. Retrieved September 25, 2013.