Antone's Presents::
The Gourds
The Preservation
Fri, January 27, 2012
Doors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm
Antone's
Austin, TX
$15.00 - $125.00
Tickets Available at the Door
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The Gourds
Austin, Texas' The Gourds have never been much on sentiment. Since the band started defining Gourds Music, as it has come to be known, with Dem's Good Beeble in 1997 and the quirky Stadium Blitzer in 1998, they have chugged through America fueled by music and a near-pathological need for a good time. And while songwriters Kevin Russell and Jimmy Smith have written the most dense, reference-laden country songs of the last 10 years and almost single-handedly made a place for deep thought in a genre of "Honky Tonk Badonkadonks" they have, for the most part, shied away from the tear-in-my-beer ballads that made country music a commercial powerhouse over the last 50 years.
The Preservation
The Story of The Preservation
Start: FALL 2009
Cayce and Mario were touring around the country and things were good. But they weren't great. So how do two find greatness? By becoming five, maybe six. And work, a lot of work. So Mario called Josh and said, "Do you think Andy would be down?" Josh said, "Yeah, you should call him."
So they met at the Baltimore House and decided whatever it was it should be good, sound like The Kinks and they should put a lot of work into it. They called Ben and began work immediately, playing two shows that first week.
Mario came up with the name The Preservation because of the obvious Kinks reference and because he naively believes they are preserving good music.
A couple shows later they met Kullen, who wanted in. Hot dog.
They are heavily influenced by family and friends, Humboldt County, Baltimore, New York, and Texas. They are also very much into music and art.
Start: FALL 2009
Cayce and Mario were touring around the country and things were good. But they weren't great. So how do two find greatness? By becoming five, maybe six. And work, a lot of work. So Mario called Josh and said, "Do you think Andy would be down?" Josh said, "Yeah, you should call him."
So they met at the Baltimore House and decided whatever it was it should be good, sound like The Kinks and they should put a lot of work into it. They called Ben and began work immediately, playing two shows that first week.
Mario came up with the name The Preservation because of the obvious Kinks reference and because he naively believes they are preserving good music.
A couple shows later they met Kullen, who wanted in. Hot dog.
They are heavily influenced by family and friends, Humboldt County, Baltimore, New York, and Texas. They are also very much into music and art.
