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SUMMARY:Southall
DESCRIPTION:Read Southall can sure turn a phrase. “This record is the gas
 oline for the love machine\,” he says of his band’s new album\, the exhi
 larating and self-titled Southall. The proud Oklahoma working man isn’t 
 exaggerating. The record sparks and burns with 11 crank-it-up songs that
  expertly combine country\, rock & roll\, and the dust and grit of the b
 and’s native Red Dirt scene. But there are also glimpses of hard rock an
 d metal\, along with easygoing back-porch vibes\, the result of a drasti
 c change in the way the group formerly known as the Read Southall Band n
 ow makes music: Every member of Southall brings lyrics\, melodies\, and 
 even full songs to the table. “It’s the colors of different people with 
 different influences making music\,” Southall says. “I’ve always been co
 nfident in the talents and abilities of the guys onstage with me\, and I
  want our fans to see and hear that too. That’s why we changed our name 
 to Southall.” Produced by Eddie Spear (Zach Bryan’s American Heartbreak)
  and recorded at Leon Russell’s iconic Church Studio in Tulsa\, Southall
  manifests the true band album that singer Read Southall first envisione
 d when he released his debut\, Six String Sorrow\, in 2015. That was a m
 ostly acoustic record\, but Southall\, the band’s fourth album\, roars w
 ith raw and loud collaborative power. Reid Barber\, the group’s resident
  metalhead\, hammers his drums. Bassist Jeremee Knipp provides a broodin
 g low end. Keys player Braxton Curliss adds both tasteful accents and of
 f-the-rails barroom piano. And guitarists John Tyler Perry and Ryan Well
 man wring wild sounds from their instruments. All of it is tied together
  by Southall’s scrappy\, yearning voice. First single “Scared Money” is 
 a slice of Rolling Stones country-rock straight off of Sticky Fingers. O
 pening with a stabbing guitar lick and written by Barber\, it’s an ackno
 wledgment of hard work and a dogged determination to pay the bills. “Tha
 t was inspired by my father\, who always told me it’s not about figuring
  out what you want to do\, it’s about figuring out what you don’t want t
 o do\,” Barber says. “It was written as a country song\, but when we got
  in the studio it turned into more of a Stonesy jam.” “Reid wrote ‘Scare
 d Money\,’ but the lyrics are me to a T:I walked out of class\, straight
  to the patch\, because no one ever paid me to read\,” says Southall\, w
 ho dropped out of school to get a job. “I feel like that’s an Oklahoman 
 mindset\, in the sense that people down here get to work. They get up ev
 ery morning and do things they don’t want to do to make money and try to
  get ahead in this crazy life. And it doesn’t matter if you’re going to 
 school\, working in the oil patch\, or farming. It’s all work.” “Out Ali
 ve\,” meanwhile\, taps into Southall’s harder and more experimental soun
 d and is about the fear of saying\, or posting\, the wrong thing in toda
 y’s quick-to-crucify society\, and instead saying nothing at all — “That
 ’s hardly a better option\,” says Barber\, who wrote it. “Out Alive” is 
 a monster and features a squawky guitar solo reminiscent of Jack White o
 r Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello played by Wellman using a pen a
 s a slide. “It sounds like air-raid sirens\,” raves Southall. “By Surpri
 se\,” meanwhile\, is a study in contradictions\, a song that’s musically
  simple but probes complex mysteries. “Too many questions too little tim
 e/heat of the moment passing you by\,”Southall sings. “Heart of the matt
 er\, hard to define/the universe divine.” “We started playing some basic
  straightforward rock to make the soul of the song stick out\,” says Bar
 ber\, who brought five songs to the recording sessions\, including “By S
 urprise.” “That’s the song I’m most stoked about. Lyrically\, it’s so bi
 g\, in the whole scope of what is being talked about — this life and how
  we get through it.” While Southall released three other studio albums\,
  including their 2017 breakout Borrowed Time\, the band’s namesake regar
 ds the records as just the building blocks of Southall’s future. He wrot
 e all of those songs\, including the fan favorite “Why\,” just to get th
 e train moving. Today\, they’re charging ahead. “That was my contributio
 n: our back catalog\,” Southall says. “Now\, we have this steam built up
  and we’re rolling down the tracks\, and I want the guys to all grab a s
 hovel\, load some coal\, and keep us rolling.” The six-piece has been up
  to the challenge. Their song “Stickin’ n Movin’\,” off 2021’sFor the Bi
 rds\, appeared on the CBS series Fire Country\, and they’ve established 
 themselves as a band-you-need-to-playlist on the streaming services: Sou
 thall have more than 133 million streams on Spotify and more than 101 mi
 llion on Apple Music\, with nearly 1 million monthly listeners across al
 l platforms. It’s not only the success story of a band\, but of a region
 \, according to Southall\, who was first inspired to write and sing coun
 try songs after having a revelation while working on a farm. “I grew up 
 at a really cool time when country music was good in the Nineties\, and 
 I spent a lot of radio time on the tractor. So whatever was happening in
  country music then was in my ears\,” he says. “But then country started
  to change and became more about partying. That’s when I thought\, ‘I co
 uld represent my people better than this.’” To Southall\, that meant wri
 ting about work\, and he sells that message hard in the rambunctious “Ge
 t Busy (Till It’s Done)\,” a centerpiece of the album and one of its mos
 t ferocious tracks. “They say anything worth having is worth fighting fo
 r/and I know that is true\,” he howls. “It’s gonna take a little time\, 
 a little grind\, to get what’s coming to you.” “My dad always said to me
 \, ‘You’re not just going to sit there on your pockets and do nothing. T
 hat still rings true to me\,” Southall says. “Work is what makes you who
  you are.” For Southall the band\, that work began a long time ago — and
  it’s about to pay off in a big way\n\nTickets: https://www.ticketmaster
 .com/southall-a-few-more-tour-columbia-missouri-11-06-2026/event/0600650
 3E2D920B8\n\nhttps://findlocal.community/event/8b982e30-f040-4262-9b85-f
 d14fe5946bf
LOCATION:The Blue Note\, Columbia\, MO
URL:https://findlocal.community/event/8b982e30-f040-4262-9b85-fd14fe5946b
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