RECKLESS KELLY Americana and Texas Country Band
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Austin’s own Reckless Kelly returned with their 8th studio album, Long Night Moon on September 3, 2013. The album is the follow-up to 2011′s Grammy Nominated Good Luck & True Love, which took home four Lone Star Music Awards, and sent three singles to #1 on Texas Radio.
Reckless Kelly is an Austin, Texas based Americana and Texas Country band. Their name was inspired by Australian bank robber Ned Kelly.
Led by brothers Willy (vocals/guitar) and Cody Braun (vocals/fiddle/mandolin/harmonica), alternative country-rock outfit Reckless Kelly formed in Bend, Oregon, before relocating to Austin, Texas, in October, 1996. The Brauns had previously toured with their father in Muzzie Braun & the Boys, a Western swing band, and were joined in their own group by lead guitarist Casey Pollock, bassist Chris Schelske, and drummer Jay Nazz.
Reckless Kelly played locally on historic Sixth Street in Austin. They turned a small bar and restaurant called Lucy’s Retired Surfers Bar, into a noted music venue. From November 1996 through May 1998, they packed the place out with their infamous Monday night show. During this period other music venues in Austin invited them to play, including the Continental club, the Saxon pub, Stubb’s barbecue, and Antone’s home of the blues.
Reckless Kelly’s debut album, Millican, appeared in the fall of 1997, and was officially released in 1998; Acoustic: Live at Stubb’s and The Day both followed two years later, after which David Abeyta replaced Pollock on lead guitar. Under the Table and Above the Sun from 2003 began the band’s relationship with the high-profile Sugar Hill label and won the hearts of the music press and honky tonkin’ legend Joe Ely, who sang the band’s praises in interviews.
Wicked Twisted Road was released in 2005, and the next year the live album Reckless Kelly Was Here captured the band’s stage presence. Bulletproof was released in the summer of 2008 on a new label, Yep Roc Records, and includes tracks critical of and reflecting on recent sociopolitical unfoldings, such as the Iraq War and Hurricane Katrina.
In 2010, Reckless Kelly released an album of songs by one of their musical heroes, Pinto Bennett. Somewhere in Time, in the band’s own words, highlighted their love of “straight-up honky tonk”. The band regularly returns to Austin to play before capacity crowds at venues like Nutty Brown Cafe & Amphitheatre.
Long Night Moon was produced by Reckless Kelly band members Willy & Cody Braun, along with Lead Guitarist David Abeyta, Long Night Moon was mixed by Ray Kennedy (Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris), and features additional instrumentation from legendary steel guitar player Lloyd Maines, as well as Bukka Allen (piano, organ) and Jeff Plankenhorn (dobro).
When Willy Braun, frontman and principal songwriter for Reckless Kelly began writing songs for Long Night Moon, he quickly found a theme emerging. “About halfway through writing this record, I noticed that almost all of the songs I was writing, whether they were songs about the road, life, or love, had something to do with traveling. It started as an accident and I decided to just go with it. Before we knew it, there was a definite theme.” It’s honest, original and constantly evolving.
Reckless Kelly is known for their explosive live shows and a passion for making albums of substance. Long Night Moon is no exception to this rule.
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