After the huge success of the ALL THE KINGS MEN TOUR, The Shady Rest Band took their folk stomping skifle grass show on the road for a second time in 2012 to support their highly regarded debut album !MERICA... The great response and huge turnout in New Mexico, Arizona, California, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and their home state of Texas last spring and fall has the band busy booking shows and finishing their new album, which is due out soon.
The band moved to the live music capital of the world from a small ski town in the Sierras 3 years ago, the band has been in high demand playing over 200 shows a year. After playing bars, parties, campfires, and festivals all over the Eastern Sierra for almost 2 years, in the fall of 2009 the band packed up and decided that Austin was going to be the place that they could really make things happen. Shortly after they arrived the boys picked up their first weekly residency, which they still hold, at the famous Cheatham Street Warehouse in San Marcos who's past residents include Stevie Ray Vaughn, George Strait, Todd Snyder, and Randy Rogers. Often they are joined by guest musicians who enjoy the loose and friendly approach that The Shady Rest Band is known for while the boys rip through their ever growing catalog of songs. Playing well original music and filling spots in their uncommonly tight sets with tasteful cover tunes, the bands busy schedule has them playing regularly at the Cheatham Street Warehouse, The Taproom, and Sean Patrick's in San Marcos, Last Concert Cafe in Houston,and the Doublewide in Dallas. In the past year the band has been seen at many Austin hot spots that include Maggie Mae's, Fado, Trophy's, The White Horse, The Gypsy Lounge, The Salt Lick BBQ, and many others. They recently returned from second tour out west that had them playing to packed rooms in Las Cruces, Santa Fe, Phoenix, San Diego, Joshua Tree, Mammoth Lakes, Boulder, Kansas City, Tulsa, Houston, Fort Worth, and Dallas supporting their full lenth album !MERICA... The Shady Rest Band is poised to hit the ground running in 2013 and plan to stay busy touring and recording new music for their growing fanbase.
The Shady Rest Band is an interesting collection of 5 friends who have come together to create a type of music that defies all traditional genres.
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