MUSIC NEWS
Night of red dirt on tap
12/04/2010

from Corpus Christi Caller-Times on caller.com

Come this Thursday, there will be No Justice at Brewster Street Ice House.

That as well as Jason Boland and the Stragglers.

Local fans will get a little red dirt under their fingernails when the bands take the stage at 9 p.m. at Brewster Street Ice House as part of the Texas Throwdown Thursday series presented by 94.7 Badlands FM.

Fans can also get a little bit of Boland live from his CD, “High in the Rockies: A Live Album,” which is the band’s latest release. The CD was recorded in Colorado and in Laramie, Wyo.

“With this record, we just figured we’ve had a few albums since Billy Bob’s,” Boland said. “And we didn’t repeat anything.”

Boland’s last live album, “Live and Lit at Billy Bob’s, Texas,” was recorded in 2002 at the mega honky-tonk, Billy Bob’s, located in the historic Fort Worth Stockyards.

The album is part of a series of live recordings that includes names such as Willie Nelson, Kevin Fowler, Wade Bowen and No Justice.

“High in the Rockies: A Live Album,” has had two solid singles so far, including “Tulsa Time,” a cover of 2010 Country Music Hall of Fame inductee Don Williams’ 1978 No. 1 hit single. The second single from Boland’s live CD is “Blowin’ Through the Hills,” currently in the top 20 on the Texas Music chart.

“We just love that song,” Boland said of “Tulsa Time.” “We are always covering songs from people who inspire us and songs we like throughout different genres, or throughout different eras. This was one we were feeling at the time.”

Boland is also feeling pretty good about the opening act, No Justice.

The red dirt rockers from Stillwater, Okla., will be performing all of the tracks from their major-label debut album, “Second Avenue.”

“Besides it being the name of the title track, it kind of represented for us a second chance and new beginning,” said frontman Steve Rice about the band’s latest album.

“That’s probably the easiest way to put it. It’s like a second road traveled, not necessarily leaving one thing and going to another, just a new opportunity, I guess. It represented that, so we kind of took that title and ran with it.”

Their second chance came from Carved Records’ founder and CEO Tim

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