Opie Hendrix and the Texas Tallboys

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Member Since: 2/7/2006
Band Website: WWW.OPIEHENDRIXWORLDWIDE.COM
Band Members: Part Waylon Jennings, part Webb Wilder and part Hank III... with a gift for delivering raggedly right songs... On his latest, Chupacabra, Opie Hendrix serves up another round of loser's laments and rowdy fight songs about going home with long-legged waitresses with criminal intent, getting guitars out of hock and finding a beer joint "where my tab ain't that high." He delivers them with the conspiratorial winks of the Old 97's, and sells them with good-ol'-boy exuberance and crisp arrangements. The first half is music from the land of meth labs and mullets, but in true Gulf-Coast fashion, Hendrix breaks out of the loser-rock template and drops a smooth blue-eyed ballad that belies the Opie image. That he follows it with the straight-on roots-rock of "Something Out of Nothing" confirms this Houston boy has his game face on.-WILLIAM MICHAEL SMITH (Texas Music Magazine)
Influences: Jesus, Pat Sullivan, Willie Nelson, Elivs Presley, They Might Be Giants, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Evel Knievel, The Beatles, Hank Williams, Drive- By Truckers, Grateful Dead, Robert Johnson, Jimi Hendrix, Sammy Terry, Lightin' Hopkins, Luther Rada, Ray Price, Leadbelly,Loretta Lynn, Charlie Rich, Dead Kennedy's, Leon Russell, The Blackwood Bros., Frank Zappa, Hank III, Bob Wills, Buddy Holly, Bjork, Jerry Lee Lewis, Steve Earle, Gilroy, Run DMC, Ralph Stanley, Howlin' Wolf, Mike Bly, Bill Monroe, John Evans, Motorhead, Emmylou Harris, Dean Martin, Billy Joe Shaver, B.B. King, Johnny Paycheck, Dusty Rhodes, John Lee Hooker, Merle Haggard, Black Oak Arkansas, Freddie King, Hunter S. Thompson, Son House, Little Feat, Rolling Stones, Gram Parsons, David Hayes, Lefty Frizzell, Ray Charles, Misfits, Doug Sahm, Mr. Scareface, George Jones, Tom Waits, Social Distortion, Brian Wilson, The Allman Bros., Townes Van Zandt, Joe Omelchuck, Clarence Gatemouth Brown, "Stone Cold"Steve Austin, Elvis Costello, Carrie Ann and the Apocalyptics, WEEN, Freddy Fender, Black Sabbath, Junior Brown, The Byrds, Heywood Banks, Bob Marley, Hank Williams Jr., The Fleetwoods, Otis Redding, The Band, Susan Alcorn, Neil Diamond, Chet Atkins,Bruce Springsteen, Peter Tosh, Carole King, Muddy Waters, Charlie Pride, Tom Petty, The Who, Jimmy Webb, Nina Simone, Butt-hole Surfers, Tom T. Hall, AD/DC, Daniel Johnston, James Brown, Joe Jackson, Fahl & Folk, NWA, Supertramp, Robbie Fulks, The Osborne Bros., REM, Charlie Parker, Steely Dan, Janis Joplin, Jerry Jeff Walker, The Brothers Four, The Pretenders, Deke Dickerson, Buck Owens, Louis Armstrong and the list goes on forever but, the party never ends...

Sounds Like: Rocket Fueled Americana...Full-Tilt "MAXIMUM C&W"
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