From such legendary lone star groups as Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys, Willie Nelson & the Family, and Asleep at the Wheel to even that little band from La Grange, ZZ Top, Texas has been a breeding ground for some of country music’s most acclaimed bands over the past half century. Each group has taken a Texas musical formula, made it their own, and played to millions across the world. So in a land where country music & Bob Wills will always be king, a little country band from the Big D, seasoned over the last ten years, has arisen and proven themselves as one of the most influential artists in a state far from short on talent. Effortlessly infusing their straight-from-the-Texas-honky-tonk brand of country music with their take-no-shit, up yours-to-music-row outlook, the band has thrilled crowds all over with their renegade style of country music that is just as popular in tattooed punk rock & hipster circles as it with the Texas baby boomers, outlaw bikers, and college crowds. Cut from the same cloth as Dallas legends Reverend Horton Heat, rockabilly king Ronnie Dawson, & Texas blues icons, the Brothers Vaughan, lead singer / lead guitarist Matt Hillyer has logged almost two decades touring the nation’s rock clubs & punk festivals, while back home in Texas headlining a Friday night at such legendary honky-tonk’s as the world’s largest, Billy Bob’s Texas in the Fort Worth Stockyards. With an early passion & guitar picking ability drawn to Texas rockabilly, it was fronting the popular 90’s punk/ rockabilly outfit Lone Star Trio that Matt met fellow Trio bassist Steve Berg, a friendship & duo that has spanned over 15 years, 10 albums, and eventually led to their forming of Eleven Hundred Springs in 1998. As the partnership between front-man Hillyer and bassist Steve Berg has evolved over the band’s ten-year career, the two have been joined by platinum rock drummer Mark Reznicek ( of 90’s post-grunge outfit the Toadies ) , 3rd generation Texas fiddler Jordan W. Hendrix, and Texas pedal steel gunslinger Danny Crelin, creating a style of country music that has their Texas contemporaries in awe, hometown fans buzzing and has found them at the forefront of a new generation of alt-country insurgents.