The Gringo Pistoleros debut record, The Rise and Subsequent Fall of the Texas Alien, drops May 31st.
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The Gringo Pistoleros is a band born from the ashes of the pandemic. Cory Grinder and the Playboy Scouts did their best to stay on the road bringing their brand of honky tonk, traditional country and Texas swing to an eager America. While passing through Austin, the boys were able to spend a few days in the studio with Laz and his crew.
A few days later, a record was recorded and a band was born. Named in homage to the great Tim Henderson, The Gringo Pistoleros continues in the tradition of Texas country music.
The Album, appropriately titled, "The Rise and Subsequent Fall of the Texas Alien" is a true collaboration of three generations of artists with a true passion for country music. With fifteen tunes to choose from, the fellas settled on ten tracks that take the listener on a journey through Texas. The album doesn't pull any punches or make any attempts at subtlety by opening with, the Great Tom T. Hall's eponymous "That's How I Got To Memphis" and then moving right into the heat of a Texas summer with "One Step Further" and "Time Bomb," sure to be the next great redneck anthems.
The boys go full on Red Dirt with the bard burner "I'll Walk the Line (for Your Hoochie Coo" before slowing down with the Cory's vocal lead on "I Can Still Remember When." Laz wrote this one after watching Cory and the Playboy Scouts backing Dale Watson downstairs at the Continental Club. The ladies lined up to take their turn two-stepping with one or more of the fellas.
The record takes the listener a little further south with the bluegrass classic "Crawdad Song" and Laz's take on the Gulf Coast Blues with "High Mileage Heart," written on the Galveston sea wall after a night at the famous Old Quarter Acoustic Cafe and a broke down CJ-5.
For a Yankee like Laz, Texas is a bit of a mystery... but none more so than the wind swept wilds of West Texas. There must be something about those wide open spaces that inspired the murder/suicide ballad , "Lone Star-Crossed Romance."
The album wraps up with blues inspired, "The Cat Came Back" and an amazing cover of the Grateful Dead's "The Dire Wolf" with Joe Faulhaber taking the lead.
Recorded, Mixed and Mastered at Signal Hill Studios by Patrick Herzfeld in about a week. Laz, Cory Grinder and the Playboy Scouts laid down the foundations of each track live. Michael O'Connor, Larry Wilson, Joe Faulhaber and Oliver Steck added a little extra.
Produced by Patrick Herzfeld and Larry Wilson. Executive Produced by Laz.
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