The Texas Gentlemen, the Lone Star bred songwriter collective, are set to perform during SXSW at several high-profile events including the Luck Reunion at Willie Nelson's Luck Texas Ranch where they will be performing at The Texas Gentlemen's Texas Revue with special guests. Their debut album, TX Jelly, is set for release this spring. See below for full schedule. Watch Performance with Kris Kristofferson Here
The Texas Gentlemen take their cues from some of the iconic acts of the past - the quicksilver brilliance of The
Wrecking Crew and Bob Dylan's one-time backers The Band are the most obvious examples. The core quintet comprises Beau Bedford, Nik Lee, Daniel Creamer, Matt McDonald and Ryan Ake. Bedford, who shares chief engineering and producing responsibilities at Dallas' Modern Electric Sound Recorders, assembled
The Texas Gentlemen as an all-purpose backing band for an eclectic array of singer-songwriters, including Leon Bridges, Nikki Lane,
Jonathan Tyler and Paul Cauthen.
In 2016, the Gentlemen were lured out of the studio to the Newport Folk Festival, where they backed iconic troubadour Kris Kristofferson, making his first Newport appearance in more than 45 years. Rolling Stone called it one of the festival's "most exciting sets."
Kristofferson so enjoyed collaborating with the Texas Gentlemen that he enlisted them to reprise their roles in a series of critically acclaimed Texas concerts. Of Kristofferson and the Texas Gentlemen's appearance at Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth, music critic Preston Jones wrote "The [instruments] would slowly coalesce around Kristofferson's gnarled but still potent voice, creating an electric sensation of the past fusing with the present."
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