1 on the iTunes country chart with single “Stone” hitting Top 10 all genre. 6 on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart (No. 1 on both the Country and Americana/Folk sales charts, at No. Their forthcoming self-produced album, Tornillo, set for release July 29, follows their self-produced fifth studio album, Whiskey Myers, out now on the band’s own Wiggy Thump Records. For more information and to purchase ticket packages, visit .įor the most up-to-date information on the forthcoming album and all tour dates, visit and follow on social media band Whiskey Myers have played more than 2,500 live shows to ever-increasing crowd sizes since their emergence in 2007. Whiskey Myers also recently announced that their personally curated Firewater Music Festival will return for a second year, taking place Sept. The first taste of that new music comes today via lead single “ John Wayne” and album intro “ Tornillo,” both available everywhere now with the album itself available for pre-order and pre-save HERE. With Cannon leading the way on songwriting, the album also features writes from lead guitarist John Jeffers and fellow bandmembers Jamey Gleaves and Tony Kent, as well as rising singer/songwriter Aaron Raitiere (Anderson East, Oak Ridge Boys, A Star is Born).
Tornillo as a whole does exactly that, drawing as much inspiration from Nirvana as from Waylon Jennings – even adding the legendary McCrary Sisters’ gospel influence to the project on background vocals. So I think that’s really the whole thing about music, or the beauty about music it’s just that freedom to create.” Whiskey Myers never really tried to be a certain way. It comes out a certain way because that’s just how it comes out. I love the idea of just doing, really, whatever you feel. You gotta be this.’ … That’s not art to me. But that’s fun, right? I hate the whole ‘Put it in a box. “We’re going to bend even more, I think, with this new record,” he continued. Just being fans of all that old music and Motown stuff, and a lot of the stuff coming out of Muscle Shoals, old rock and roll.” “It’s still Whiskey Myers at its core, but it’s kind of fresh… We did a lot of bass and horns on this one, which is something we’ve always wanted to do. “It’s going to have a little bit different sound,” lead singer Cody Cannon shared recently with Outsider. Yet with Tornillo, named for the border town that is home to the pecan orchard-filled recording complex and set for release on July 29 via their own Wiggy Thump Records with distribution by Thirty Tigers, the six-piece band has taken their solid decade-plus foundation and pushed themself to further explore new sonic landscapes. Now, after spending 21 days isolated at the 2,300-acre Sonic Ranch studio deep in the heart of their native Texas, just miles from the U.S./Mexico border, the Gold-certified renegades have doubled down on what they do best: sharing honest truths with no-holds-barred instrumentation, letting the self-produced music speak for itself. 2 on the Rock charts, behind only a re-release of The Beatles’ Abbey Road), the band celebrated mainstream success a decade in the making.
With Rolling Stone raving that the “irresistible” album was “the record the band was poised to make” while declaring them “the new torch bearers for Southern music” in a story titled “How Whiskey Myers Won Over Mick Jagger and Made the Album of Their Career ” Billboard and No Depression naming the album to best-of-the-year lists 41,000 first week album sales and the project debuting atop both the Country and Americana album charts (as well as at No. Whiskey Myers 2019’s self-titled and self-produced album offered a watershed moment. The 41-date tour will be fans first chance to hear the band’s new music live from their forthcoming self-produced album, Tornillo, set for release July 29. Genre-bending band Whiskey Myers will bring their “Tornillo Tour” to Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre on Saturday, May 21 at 6:30 p.m.
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