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SUMMARY:Dirty River Boys
DESCRIPTION:@ 			\n			\n							 \n\n\nDirty River Boys make their debut at Bubba’s Brewhouse in Durant\, OK Friday August 14th! \nIt happened during an ordinary refueling stop for the Dirty River Boys\, the bandon its way from Austin to Tulsa to kick off a six-date run. The van pulled up at agas station and its occupants scattered\, with Colton James hopping on hisskateboard and heading over to a grocery store for a rotisserie chicken.But the board hit an oil patch and went flying\, and the bassist found himself notjust down\, but possibly out. “I see him at the van and he’s got a bone about topop out of his shoulder\, and our tour manager is on the phone\,” recalls drummerTravis Stearns. \nSo the band retreated to Austin\, where an ER doc told James he had a shatteredcollarbone and would need surgery. In the meantime\, they outfitted him with asling. For a moment the band contemplated scratching its upcoming six-date run\,because for a stand-up bassist\, a collarbone tends to be necessary equipment.“Every time I lifted my arms to play the bass I could just feel the bones crunchingon each other\,” he says. \nBut he didn’t want to force his bandmates to cancel shows. Why don’t I play theelectric bass instead\, he wondered\, while sitting in a chair? Wouldn’t that work?The band agreed\, and they were off again. “That was a long bumpy drive with abroken collarbone\,” James wryly recalls. “Didn’t even stop to get any medicationon the way—that was a bad idea. “ \nBut that’s the Dirty River Boys ethos. Playing upwards of 200 dates a year\, givingheartfelt\, unrestrained performances\, and winning over a loyal audience showby-show\, it takes a lot more than a few broken bones to stop them. \nPerhaps that has a little something to do with the band’s hometown. El Paso\,home of the “dirty river” known as the Rio Grande\, is a place of schemers andstrivers—not all of them on the right side of the law. Perhaps the quintessentialAmerican border town\, the place locals call “El Chuco” is practically one city withits Mexican twin\, Ciudad Juárez. Viewed from the air\, only the path of the riverdelineates where one ends and the other begins. \nIt was against this backdrop that Nino Cooper\, Marco Gutierrez and TravisStearns came of age\, playing music in various bands\, dreaming of recording atSonic Ranch—the mammoth residential studio just outside town—and hearingwild stories of drug wars and lawlessness from just a few miles away.Fast forward a decade or so and Cooper had returned to El Paso from SouthernCalifornia\, where he’d abandoned a corporate career. Armed with an acousticguitar and armload of originals and covers\, he began playing anywhere thatwould have him\, including restaurants and hotel lobbies. Stearns quickly jumpedaboard to provide percussion\, but venues weren’t crazy about a loud drum kit. SoStearns dropped the kit and picked up the cajón\, a simple\, box-like instrumentcommon south of the border. \nMarco Gutierrez\, veteran of a number of local bands\, soon rounded out the trio\,and gigs in hotels and restaurants soon became bookings in El Paso’s handful oflive-music clubs\, which after awhile led to trips out of town.“There’s definitely a lot of talent in El Paso\,” Cooper says. “But being in a band\,it’s hard to get out of there because it’s a nine-hour drive to get anywhere. ”Young\, hungry and—literally—driven\, the trio nonetheless buckled up for longvan rides and soon began venturing to Austin\, San Antonio\, Tulsa and pointsbeyond. Meanwhile a hard-driving roots-acoustic sound—which at the time\,wouldn’t sound out of place on a playlist with the Avett Brothers and Mumfordand Sons—began getting battle tested over an endless string of shows andhundreds of broken cajón heads. \nAlong the way The Dirty River Boys notched a number of significant milestones\,opening for legend Willie Nelson several times\, and selling out the famed GrueneHall in New Braunfels\, Texas. \nHaving left the El Paso restaurants far behind\, the band continued to grow\,adding stand-up bassist Colton James and functioning just a bit more like aconventional rock band\, though one without the usual dynamic.Indeed\, The Dirty River Boys have an incredible number of strengths. All fourmembers have a hand in the songwriting\, and all four sing as well\, whilemembers often switch off instruments during shows. This isn’t just a vehicle for asongwriting frontman\, with an interchangeable crew of instrumentalists bringingthose ideas to life. \nAnd so\, after a pair of EPs and an album\, “Science of Flight\,” that served as atour calling card\, the time couldn’t be better for an anthemic\, hook-ladendeclaration of intent\, served up to an audience beyond DRB’s Texas diehards.And thanks to the golden-eared production assistance of Chris “Frenchie” Smith\,that’s exactly what “The Dirty River Boys” is. \nThe record is both a cohesive statement and a dizzying testament to the band’scapabilities\, as it shifts gears between genres with the skill of a long-haul trucker.There’s traditional\, honky-tonk country (“Didn’t Make The Cut”)\, Flogging Mollystyle Celtic rock (“Sailed Away”) and an all-out greasy road rocker (“HighwayLove”) and you get the feeling the ’Boys are just getting warmed up.No matter the genre\, the band has a knack for imbuing every one of their songswith undeniable hooks\, from the “whoah-ohs” that punctuate first single “ThoughtI’d Let You Know” to the power-chord riff that forms the foundation of El Pasoscene-setter “Down By The River” (co-written with Ray Wylie Hubbard).“It’s an anthem record\,” Cooper says. “That’s what we were working for. Wewanted to showcase our individuality\, and all the vocals\, and just capture thechoruses and those chants.” \n“We let all of our influences show\,” Gutierrez adds. “So we really have troublesaying ‘this is rock’ or ‘this is country\,’ or whatever. And we’re not Texas Countryeither\, even though we get thrown in there. Americana is really what it is—because it’s a melting pot of music.” \nThis self-titled record—tracked at The Bubble in Austin and\, yes\, Sonic Ranchoutside El Paso—was the first time the band had taken time off to record\, ratherthan booking a few studio days between shows\, and the effort paid off. “We justbuckled down and focused\,” Cooper recalls. “We didn’t want to cut any corners. ”And now\, with its best record in hand\, the band plans to venture much furtherafield from El Paso\, and stay on the road. After all\, with border checkpoints onevery road out of town\, leaving town can be a hassle. \nSometimes\, in fact\, more of a hassle than you might have expected. Not so longago\, the band found itself on the end of an “enhanced search\,” with everyoneasked to step out of the van while U.S. Customs and Border Protection brought adog through it. “Then this guy pulls Travis out and we hear him just tearing intoTravis\,” recalls Gutierrez. \n“Then the guy walks up to us and asks ‘which of you guys are from El Paso?’”Gutierrez continues. “We raise our hands\, then we go to the side of the van. In asplit-second he goes from mad dog to ‘El Paso Chuco\,’ giving us the love\, saying‘Hey\, are you the Dirty River Boys? I saw y’all at the State Line a few weeks ago.I’m sorry mijos\, I was just doing my job.’ Just in a split second\, the El Paso love.”“He asked us for CDs\, so we gave CDs to the Border Patrol agents andautographed them and everything\,” Cooper adds\, chuckling. “Now\, every time wego through there\, we say\, yeah\, y’all have a few of our CDs. We’re good.” \n\n		\n\n\n\n				\n					\n					Google Calendar				\n			\n\n				\n					\n					iCal Export
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LOCATION:Bubba’s Brewhouse\, 9125 US 70 W\, Durant\, OK\, 74701\, United States
CATEGORIES:Concert,Entertainment,Live Music
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