I'll cover all the bands from Luck Reunion to start off this year. This band is out of Mobile, Alabama and plays soulful southern rock but they play other styles, too. According to this article at savingcountrymusic:
For five years The Red Clay Strays were said to have been working with a record label on a debut album, in and out of various studios, wrangling with separate producers who tried to take their raw and infectious live sound winning them so much praise, and capture it for the recorded medium. But it never was quite right. They couldn’t follow orders, or be fit in a box. Even as word of their enrapturing shows began to spread well beyond Alabama, you still had to take the word of those who’d witnessed it first hand because only a couple of singles lingered out there for discovery.
Fed up with the process, The Red Clay Stray walked away from the label, solicited their rabid fans for assistance, and off of a $40,000 goal, raised $56,000+, and set out to record an album themselves, in a private room, with all analog equipment capturing live takes. They ended up doing 12 songs in 8 days, playing day and night, sleeping on the floor of the studio.
"Wondering Why" is good.
Here is a live song. Definitely have to check them out. They're also playing the Rolling Stone Future of Music showcase.
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Cool story!
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