Big State 'Sure Thing'

-Tara

Austin’s Big State - James Brinkman (lead vocals, guitar), Tim Brown (drums, vocals) added Patrick Conreaux (bass, vocals), and Aaron Seymour (lead guitar, vocals) -  bring swagger and stomp on their first full-length, Sure Thing. Released June 9, the thirteen-track outing, recorded at Teenie Sound Studios and mastered by Matthew Agoglia of The Ranch in Beacon, New York, combines new songs as well as remixed and remastered songs from their two EPs, and finds the band on firm footing with rollicking alt-country, roots rockers. Kicking off with the irreverent, “Oh, Cordelia” where he asks said gal, “Do you wanna fool around?”, Sure Thing calls to mind the Old 97’s from the high-energy “Ballad Of Davy Crockett, Part 2” to the bar room sing along, “Heck Yeah, Dang Right.” The album also includes the raucous, lighthearted “Make America Shake Again” (“One day in November sets the course for 4 more years one side weeps while the other drinks their tears”), the humorous story of “Lynette” and a meeting in a drunk tank, and the tale of “Christine,” the older woman who took advantage of a younger man and “blew his heart to smithereens.” Brinkman and Co. ponder the mystery lights of “Marfa,” a missing male (“Where Is Robert”), and city folk who invade the country (“Upstater”) on a record filled with interesting story songs, humor, and hooks that lives up to its title. 

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