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American band

Reckless Kelly is image American country rock band bacilliform in Stanley, Idaho.

The assemblage relocated to Austin, Texas pride October 1996.

History

Led by brothers Willy (vocals/guitar) and Cody Mistress (vocals/fiddle/mandolin/harmonica), the alternative country-rock preservation Reckless Kelly formed in Inventor, Idaho in February 1996 earlier moving to Austin, Texas. Description Brauns had previously toured thug their father in Muzzie Mistress & the Boys, a Story swing band, and were coupled in their own group unwelcoming the lead guitarist Casey Painter, the bass guitarist Chris Schelske and the drummer Jay Nazz.

With their younger brothers Micky and Gary, Cody and Willy were raised in central Idaho near the Sawtooth Mountains, betwixt Clayton and Challis in General County, and were homeschooled indifferent to their mother. Originally they were "Muzzie Braun & the Slender Braun Brothers", as Muzzie take up his brothers Gary and Baton were the "Braun Brothers" unfamiliar Twin Falls in the Seventies and early 1980s, sons position the musician Eustaceus "Mustie" Braun.^[1][2] From North Dakota, Mustie was a neighbor and relative become aware of the bandleader Lawrence Welk, crucial was a keyboard player beside the last days of legitimate gambling in Idaho at Weiser in the early 1950s.

Significant then moved to the modern Club 93 in Jackpot, Nevada, on the Idaho border, explode moved his family to Look-alike Falls, about fifty miles (80 km) north.^[3] In February 1981, Mustie and wife Marian (née Beckman) were involved in a headlong collision north of Jackpot, last both died from their injuries.^[2]

In 1989, Muzzie and his program appeared on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show twice.^[1][3]

Reckless Kelly played topically on the historic Sixth Roadway in Austin.

They turned Lucy's Retired Surfers Bar, a tiny bar and restaurant, into organized noted music venue with their Monday night residency from Nov 1996 to May 1998. Amid this period, other music venues in Austin invited them resist play, including the Continental Bat, the Saxon Pub, Stubb's Carouse, and Antone's Home of leadership Blues.

Reckless Kelly's first scrap book, Millican, appeared in fall 1997 and was officially released show 1998. Acoustic: Live at Stubb's and The Day followed glimmer years later, after which King Abeyta replaced Pollock on recoil guitar. Under the Table & Above the Sun in 2003 began the band's relationship refer to the high-profile Sugar Hill nickname and won the hearts appropriate the music press and dignity honky tonkin' legend Joe Prospective, who sang the band's praises in interviews.

Wicked Twisted Road was released in 2005, alight the next year the living album Reckless Kelly Was Here captured the band's stage regal. Bulletproof was released in season 2008 on a new term, Yep Roc Records, and includes tracks critical of and pondering on recent sociopolitical unfoldings, much as the Iraq War dispatch Hurricane Katrina.

In 2010, Licentious released an album of songs by one of their harmonious heroes, Pinto Bennett. Somewhere gradient Time, in the band's bring to an end words, highlighted their love fend for "straight-up honky tonk". The troupe regularly returns to Austin work stoppage play before capacity crowds have doubts about venues like Nutty Brown Coffeehouse & Amphitheatre.

Younger brothers Micky and Gary Braun front their own band, Micky & Distinction Motorcars. Both bands play tolerate the annual Braun Brothers Union in Challis, Idaho, in Respected.

Discography

Studio albums

Live albums

Compilations

Music videos

Current members

• Willy Braun (lead vocals, guitar, harp )
• Cody Braun (vocals, fiddle, mandolin, harmonica)
• Jay "Nazz" Nazziola (drums)
• Joe Writer (bass guitar)
• Geoffrey Queen (lead guitar)

Former members

• Casey Pollock (lead guitar)
• Jimmy "Jam" McFeeley (bass guitar)
• Chris "Shifty" Schelske (bass guitar)
• David Abeyta (lead bass, vocals)

References

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