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Ep #64 - BJ Barham (American Aquarium) Sep 22, 2026

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BJ Barham is the frontman, songwriter, and driving force behind American Aquarium, the Raleigh, North Carolina roots-rock band he founded in 2006 and has fronted for two decades. A blue-collar Americana storyteller who built the band on relentless touring, Barham writes plainly about addiction, hard-won sobriety, marriage, and small-town life. His breakout came with 2012's Jason Isbell-produced Burn.Flicker.Die., and he has since shared stages with the likes of Turnpike Troubadours and Drive-By Truckers as the lone constant through countless lineup changes. In June 2026 the band released New Ways to Lose, a Shooter Jennings-produced record that marks their 20th album in 20 years, and they are touring it coast to coast now, including a return to Nashville's Ryman Auditorium and a run of UK and Netherlands dates in November.

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Ep #63 - James Trawick (Hondo Rodeo Fest) Sep 08, 2026

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James Trawick is the founder and CEO of the Hondo Rodeo Fest, an invite-only professional rodeo that pairs a seven-figure purse with arena-headlining musical talent. A former western-sports competitor turned media and film producer, Trawick built the festival to stage elite rodeo athletes alongside some of the biggest names in country and rock. Since its 2024 debut at Chase Field in Phoenix, the event has expanded to the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, where the 2026 lineup featured Jason Aldean, Creed, and Lynyrd Skynyrd, and it heads to Tampa in 2027. The next Hondo Rodeo Fest returns to Phoenix on November 13-15, 2026, with a purse now exceeding $1.2 million.

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Ep #62 - Chase Colston (Troubadour Fest) Aug 18, 2026

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Chase Colston is an East Texas native and the co-founder of Troubadour Festival, one of the largest Texas barbecue and country music festivals in the state. Raised in Bullard, Texas, he got his start in media early, launching a weekly newspaper in his hometown at 14 and moving into full-time sports writing in Tyler by 17. He later worked in digital marketing and radio, and in 2013 he created the Red Dirt BBQ & Music Festival in downtown Tyler, which sold out for six straight years. After the pandemic ended that run, Colston and his lifelong business partner founded Double Tap Entertainment and, in 2021, launched Troubadour Festival, a two-stage celebration of Texas barbecue and Country, Red Dirt, Americana, and Southern Rock now held in Celina and Bryan-College Station.Troubadour Fest is currently on hiatus, but is hoping to find a way to host the event in the future.

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Ep #61 - Johnny "Backflip" Dudley (Rodeo Clown) Aug 04, 2026

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Johnny "Backflip" Dudley is a Marine-turned-rodeo-clown and the 2019 Coors "Man in the Can" the PRCA's top honor for a barrelman, awarded at the National Finals Rodeo. A Texas native who served eight years in the Corps, Dudley works around 250 rodeos a year from Florida to Alaska, famous for backflipping off his barrel with a bull in the arena and for a mouth that's even faster than his feet.

98th Annual North Texas Fair & Rodeo is here! August 21 – 30, 2026 in Denton, Texas featuring over 40+ musical acts including Braxton Keith, Aaron Watson, Kody West, Jarrod Morris and more! Tickets on sale now: https://ntfair.com

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Ep #60 - Riggin Smith (Smith Pro Rodeo) Jul 21, 2026

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Smith Pro Rodeo "The Greatest Show on Dirt" is a PRCA livestock contracting and rodeo production company based in Henderson County, Texas (Malakoff/Athens area), led by owner Stace Smith and son Riggin. Before becoming a contractor, Smith worked as a rodeo contestant, chute boss, and pickup man and was selected as a pickup man for the 2005 Texas Circuit Finals before building the company into one of the most prolific rodeo production outfits in the country.

The company's headline achievement is being named PRCA Stock Contractor of the Year 11 times 11 consecutive years, tying the record held by rodeo legend Harry Vold. Smith Pro Rodeos produces more PRCA rodeos than any other stock contractor in the association, with an operation spanning 7+ states, 15 separate rodeos, and more than 80 performances annually. Notable events they've supplied stock for or produced include Cheyenne Frontier Days, Ogden Pioneer Days, the Tri-State Fair and Rodeo in Amarillo, the Texas Circuit Finals, and the Los Fresnos PRCA Rodeo in South Texas.

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Ep #59 - Beau Bedford (Wyatt Flores Producer) Jun 30, 2026

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Beau Bedford is a Dallas-based producer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter who has become a central figure in the modern Texas roots and Americana scene. He got his start playing in Jonathan Tyler's Northern Lights before founding The Texas Gentlemen, a rotating collective of Dallas players he originally assembled as an all-purpose backing band for singer-songwriters like Leon Bridges and Nikki Lane. Bedford led the group for roughly eight years — recording their 2017 debut TX Jelly at the legendary FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals before stepping away in 2019 to focus on producing. Today he's co-owner and chief engineer at Modern Electric Sound Recorders in Dallas and a member of the Texas based band Chaparelle.

Beau is closely associated with Paul Cauthen, having produced Cauthen's debut My Gospel and the Have Mercy EP, along with co-writing several of his songs. His broader credits include Orville Peck (Spotify Singles), Amigo the Devil (Born Against), Wyatt Flores (Welcome to the Plains), and Tanner Usrey.

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Ep #57 - Matt Hillyer (Eleven Hundred Springs) Jun 09, 2026

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Matt Hillyer is a veteran Texas singer-songwriter with more than three decades shaping his own corner of the state's country tradition. For 23 years he fronted the legendary Dallas honky-tonk band Eleven Hundred Springs, touring the world and releasing more than a dozen albums before the band ended in 2021. His sound runs from rockabilly roots through western swing, outlaw country, and traditional honky-tonk.

He launched his solo career in 2014 with If These Old Bones Could Talk, followed by 2021's Glorieta and his latest, Bright Skyline, released via State Fair Records and recorded in his hometown of Dallas.

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Ep #56 - Micky Braun (Micky & The Motorcars) Jun 02, 2026

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Jarrod sits down to chat with Micky Braun of Micky and the Motorcars. Micky Braun is the frontman and primary songwriter of Texas red dirt band Micky and the Motorcars. The son of Western swing musician Muzzie Braun, he grew up performing in his family's band in Stanley, Idaho before forming the Motorcars with his brother Gary and settling in Austin, right around the same time his older brothers Cody and Willy launched Reckless Kelly. Over two decades and nine albums later, Micky remains one of the hardest-touring, most genuinely independent voices in Texas music.

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Ep #55 - Tanner Usrey May 07, 2026

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Tanner Usrey is a Texas country singer songwriter from Prosper, Texas. Tanner signed with Atlantic Records in 2023 and has released two albums, Crossing Lines and These Days. His music has been featured on hit TV shows Yellowstone and Landman, with songs including "The Light," "Take Me Home," "Crossing Lines," and "Destiny." He has accumulated tens of millions of streams and continues to tour nationally.

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Ep #54 - Adam Odor (Grammy Nominated Engineer & Producer) Apr 28, 2026

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Adam Odor is a legendary music producer, engineer and musician behind some of the most iconic albums and artist in the Texas music scene and beyond. Adam has worked with an extensive lineup of artist throughout his career including Cross Canadian Ragweed, The Chicks, Colter Wall, Ryan Bingham, Mike & The Moonpies, Cory Morrow, Pat Green. Micky & The Motorcars, Randy Rogers, Asleep at the Wheel / Willie Nelson and the list goes on!

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