![]() 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. For genre-bending band Whiskey Myers, 2019’s self-titled and self-produced album offered a watershed moment. 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. ![]()
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