Teddy and The Rough Riders + Cactus Lee

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Teddy and The Rough Riders + Cactus LeeThe Blue RoomThu, Jan 30, 2025, Doors 7:00 PM, Show 8:00 PM

Born in Nashville, TN, Teddy and The Rough Riders have created a unique, genre bending version of Country Rock. Songs focus on close-harmony influences, soaring pedal steel, and grooving rhythms, modernizing the sounds of Little Feat, The Band, or Flying Burrito Bros, and always tending towards Country artists like The Louvin Bros, Buck Owens, and Billy Joe Shaver. Cutting their teeth in the hometown Honky-Tonk scene, as well as the garage/punk rock clubs throughout the South, TRR plays modern country rock that has seen them opening for such bands as Margo Price, Soccer Mommy and Orville Peck. Their self titled album produced by Margo Price came out in 2022, and they have a new album planned for Sept 2024.

Cactus Lee is Texas music. It’s Austin nightclub music. Dusty dance floor cattle call music. It’s rich and referential music, at times childlike and dreamy, all the while steered with wit not unlike John Prine or Tom T. Hall. The project is led by Kevin Dehan, a prolific Austin songwriter who draws inspiration from a wide range of Texas country artists, including outlaws and outsiders. Dehan's latest release, "Sister," marks the band's signing to Western Vinyl. Dehan describes "Sister" as “a feel-good song. It looks yellow and sky blue. It needed cow bell and bright guitars to match. You might listen to it and roll down the windows in your car."