The Gourds

http://www.thegourds.com
http://www.myspace.com/thegourdstx


Listen: "Lower 48" from the album 'Blood of The Ram'



Austin, Texas' The Gourds have never been much on sentiment.  Since the band started defining Gourds Music, as it has come to be known, with 'Dem’s Good Beeble' in 1997 and the quirky 'Stadium Blitzer' in 1998, they have chugged through America fueled by music and a near-pathological need for a good time. And while songwriters Kevin Russell and Jimmy Smith have written the most dense, reference-laden country songs of the last 10 years and almost single-handedly made a place for deep thought in a genre of “Honky Tonk Badonkadonks” they have, for the most part, shied away from the tear-in-my-beer ballads that made country music a commercial powerhouse over the last 50 years. 

On this go-round with 'Noble Creatures', Russell and company have put the irony and redneck post-modernism on the backburner for a bit.  But despite the album’s shining ballads, 'Noble Creatures' is by no means divorced from the musical persona The Gourds have built through seminal albums like 'Bolsa de Agua', 'Cow Fish Fowl or Pig', 'Blood of the Ram' and 'Heavy Ornamentals'. The kaleidoscopic-country sound the band has become known for rages on. And while Russell’s songs move the band into beautiful and unfamiliar territory, Smith succeeds in keeping 'Noble Creatures' close to home with what he calls, “solid Gourds grooves” that are sure to be new live favorites and are guaranteed to serve as the soundtrack to barbecues and house parties from Austin to god knows where. With 'Noble Creatures', The Gourds have ensured that their musical legend will move past adjectives like witty or ironic and on toward more profound descriptives like classic and timeless, helping them to take their rightful place as some of today’s greatest American songwriters.

Shinyribs

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8pm.  $12 advance/$15 day of show.

Advance tickets available online and at our local outlets.

Standing room only.