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After serving 4 years in the US Marine Corps and one tour of duty in Iraq, Scott Brown and Best friend Brandon Robelia returned home to Texas...guitars in hand. Scott and Brandon met in the Marine Corps in 1999. Scott had never picked up a guitar, and Brandon only knew a few chords. Eager to learn, Scott would make his way down to Brandon’s barracks room and steal his guitar until he finally bought his own.

Mostly playing for fellow Marines and friends, the two spent most of their time picking and waiting for the day they could go back to Texas for good and pursue the music that they loved.

The first paying gig came from a little smoky sports bar in Spring Texas by the name of Big Daddy’s. When the bar owner asked for the band name, with out Scott knowing, Brandon told them to put "Scooter Brown" on the marquee. He knew Scott didn’t care for the nickname, and he got a good laugh out of it. The gig went well and the two had a great response from the crowd. Soon others began calling asking for "Scooter Brown." Needless to say, the name stuck.

After playing acoustic gigs for a while, Bass player, Mark Hernandez joined the band and brought a great musical background with him. Mark spent most of his music career in a very successful Tejano band in South Texas. After a few years away from the music, Mark was ready to dive back in head first with "Scooter Brown," bringing a great ear and big ideas with him!

Shortly after, drummer Matt Bledsoe joined the band. Matt was a former US Army Soldier who had played with numerous rock and punk bands across Northern Texas and Oklahoma. Matt fit in perfect with the band and has become the "heartbeat" of the Scooter Brown Band.

Soon the time came when original lead guitar player Brandon Robelia decided to leave The SBB and focus on his career as a Houston Fire Fighter. Chris Loring quickly stepped in and filled his shoes. Chris also brought a lot of great musical background to the band. Known as an outstanding guitar player, Chris has played with many great bands, and truly loves what he does.

With Scott’s wife Vicki in charge of managing and booking, the band has taken off and is followed by many. Known for their original music and entertaining live performances, the Scooter Brown Band has earned a respected name for themselves in the "Texas Music" scene. With the unique, one of a kind sound of this young band, there is no limit to what they will accomplish in the years to come.

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October 31, 2009 - Saturday

OurTracks Welcomes 6 Market Blvd!

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Hailing from Stephenville Texas this quintet is a blend of lost romantics, ragged musicians and traveling souls. Based on the fundamentals of a classic road touring band, being lyrically creative and musically driven, this band brings a change of pace to the scene. Blending influences for Country, Americana and Rock & Roll, 6MB delivers a uniquely identifiable sound that is sure to resonate the heart and soul. With the release of their first EP, aptly titled "Six Market Blvd. EP" the band is quickly putting on the miles to get the music out. Since its release, it has landed the band on the Myspace Music Charts, nationally, in the categories of "Roots Music", "Americana" and "Southern Rock", breaking the top 50 and top 25 in "Roots Music".

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September 19, 2009 - Saturday

OurTracks Welcomes Max Stalling!

http://www.ourtracks.com/artistpage.php?id=411 10 years…5 cds...respect as a songwriter… top flight band…an expanding and loyal fan base. Not TOO bad of a track record for a guy who never felt he really had any business being in the music business. “I didn’t even pick up a guitar until graduate school,” notes Max Stalling. After high school in Carrizo Springs, Texas, Stalling went to Texas A&M in College Station and earned a master's degree in Food Science. Stalling took the corporate road to Dallas in 1991, working for Rainbo Bread and then in product development for snack food giant Frito-Lay. "I had no expectation of even being in the music business. I just liked to write songs," says Stalling. Then, while listening to Dallas community radio station KNON, Max discovered a whole new chapter in his life. Townes Van Zandt, Robert Earl Keen, Guy Clark, Lyle Lovett, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Rodney Crowell, Jerry Jeff Walker - singer/songwriters representing a musical heritage to which he had been nearly oblivious. Soon he discovered the emerging Dallas music scene at the Three Teardrops Tavern, a now defunct, but very central part of the Dallas and North Texas country music scene through the mid-90s. “I guess the 3Ts is where I must have stepped on a rusty guitar string and gotten infected with the music biz bug,” says Stalling. Max Stalling views himself as a songwriter first and as a performer a distant second. This tidbit might come as a surprise to the multitudes of loyal fans that regularly attend his crowded shows. Stalling composes songs that seem about the here and now yet seem to also have one foot planted in the past. Sporting a vintage LBJ style “open road” hat, which is dangerously close to becoming his trademark, Stalling’s shows are at once intimate and up-close with him chatting up the crowd between songs, and a ‘tour de force’ of sound on the shoulders of his top-shelf band. With Jeff Howe on drums and percussion, Bryce Clarke on nylon-string guitar, electric guitar and mandolin and Jason Steinsultz swapping between stand-up and electric bass, Stalling brings together a show that blends an old-style country sensibility of danceable ballads with the slightly edgy elements so commonly seen in the “Texas Music” genre. Stalling and troupe seem equally at home on a huge honky-tonk stage in front of 1000 or playing an acoustic set in a tiny 50 seat coffee house. Even without the benefit of a recent release, Stalling’s attendance numbers have continued to rise. “I chalk it up to the strength of the songs and the strength of my band,” comments Stalling. Stalling released his 5th cd on June 12, 2007. Titled ‘Topaz City,’ this follows up 3 other studio projects (‘Comfort In The Curves’/1997, ‘Wide Afternoon’/2000, ‘One Of The Ways’/2002) and a live cd release (‘Sell-Out’/2006). ‘Topaz City’ is being self-released on the Blind Nello Records label. Now you have Live At The Granada - a DVD and CD set available! Quick math shows this project coming on the heels of a nearly 5 year stretch without a studio-recorded batch of new songs - a near eternity in many circles. “Quite a few things have happened since I put out the ‘One Of The Ways’ disc back in 2002,” muses Stalling. “From a business standpoint, the bankruptcy of the distribution company handling my cds just months after I released ‘One Of The Ways’ really put a damper on my ability to come out with another project…just like it did to lots of other folks in my position. On a personal front, there were a whole slew of things that hit me pretty hard…girl problems, the extended illness and passing away of my father, topped off by an audit by our friendly IRS sure kept me from focusing on songwriting. That was a tough stretch of years.” Stalling patiently bided his time, gathering a batch of songs that live up to his reputation as a songwriter. “I’m proud of every one of these songs…each for different reasons,” Stalling notes. Indeed, the songs seem to speak to Stalling maturing as a songsmith and vocalist. With songs in hand, Stalling began to seek out a producer to help shape the overall sound of the project. Max tapped the über-cool “Off-Music Row” insider/outsider R.S. ‘Bobby’ Field to wear the producer’s hat. Field has been at the helm of many-a-hip production job for some of the genre’s most respected singer/songwriters...Todd Snider, Billy Joe Shaver, Allison Moorer, Webb Wilder and Hayes Carll to name but a few. “I talked to quite a ‘who’s-who’ list of people about taking this project on but it wasn’t until I hooked up with R.S. that I realized he was exactly the person I needed for this particular project. R.S. is the whole package… songwriter, gear-head, psychologist, music historian… everything you look for in a producer. Oh, and he’s one of the funniest people I’ve ever met in my life.” The project was recorded in Austin at Bruce Robison’s new studio, Premium Recording Services. Jeff Howe and former band member Dale Clark and are featured prominently on the recordings. “This is the first time I’ve had the opportunity to use my road guys in the studio. I’m very proud of the life Jeff and Dale have given these songs,” says Stalling. “They poured their hearts and souls into this project and I think people will be wowed by what they can do.” In June of 2008 Stalling was awarded a star on the South Texas Music “Walk Of Fame” in Corpus Christi, Texas. This recognition of other successful musicians from South Texas includes such notables as Guy Clark, Roger Creager, Bill Haley, Selena, Kris Kristofferson, Michael Nesmith (of The Monkees) and more. So stands Stalling – poised on the edge of the next chapter in his career: armed with a strong, new cd being enthusiastically received by a loyal and growing fan base, respect from his songwriting peers and a stellar band to back him up. Not TOO bad for a former snack-food scientist turned songwriter.

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September 19, 2009 - Saturday

OurTracks Welcomes Scufflegrit!

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Scufflegrit was formed in a small northwestern Alabama town. They went by the name "Midnight Tokers" while they attended college at Jacksonville State University and played around the area in bars and private parties. Recently one of the members joined the US Army and is currently stationed in Fort Drum, NY while the other is working in Mobile, AL. They haven't been able to do shows lately, but are currently writing and recording music on their own. Support your local musicians! If you haven't had a chance go by and check out Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit, Lauderdale, Adam Hood, Chris Posey, Drive-By Truckers, Doc Dailey, Joe Wright, Sons of Roswell, Tony Brook, and McPherson Struts for a good taste of Alabama Music. OUR DEBUT ALBUM "LYIN', STEALN', AND LITTERN" NOW AVAILABLE at www.ourtracks.com!!!!!!....... www.scufflegrit.co

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September 11, 2009 - Friday

Cody Johnson Band Fans!!!!

OurTracks now has the new CD - Six Strings One Dream is now available for download at www.ourtracks.com Come check out this badass CD and support the band because I get to send them checks when you download something! If you like what you find at Ourtracks, please tell a friend or 20! We have alot of Out Of Print CD's from artists like Drew Kennedy, Peter Dawson, Houston Marchman, South Austin Jug Band, Brian Rung, Jarrod Birmingham and many more!! OurTracks.com - it's the MUSIC that matters...

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September 2, 2009 - Wednesday

Dollars & Dimes from Owen Temple available at OurTracks

http://www.ourtracks.com/artistpage.php?id=279 Ran into Owen Temple Friday at RRIH and he gave me his new CD to add to Ourtracks! Y'all come and check out Owen's new music! From the fear of getting hurt that walks hand in hand with the rush of falling in love ("Accidentally Break My Heart") to the futility of running a corporate rat race that can't be won ("Move Around Money"), Owen Temple knows a thing or two about the little (and big) contradictions that make life interesting. Listening to his latest album, Right Here and Now, you might conclude he's obsessed with the subject. And you'd be right. "What I'm really drawn to," the Kerrville-born, Dallas-based singer-songwriter explains, "are situations or thoughts or moments that have some drama or conflict to them. All those problems in relationships or life that don't seem to have a really easy answer and that sometimes seem contradictory with what the truth is. I like to find those cool little psychological states - those little pieces of personality and beauty - and try to communicate them through song." And on Right Here and Now, his third album, Temple does just that - fashioning song after song of keenly phrased observations that pack as much honest wisdom as they do melodic, homespun folk and honky-tonk punch. Smartly produced by Phil Madeira [Buddy Miller, Greg Trooper], it's an album that confirms Temple's promise as first suggested by 1997's General Store and 1999's Passing Through, positioning him even farther off the beaten path of the run-of-the-mill, modern day Texas troubadour. In the tradition of writers'-writers like Guy Clark, Rodney Crowell and Bruce Robison, it's country music crafted for reflection as well as for celebration, and dancing is always encouraged. "I love the sound of steel guitar, the sound of fiddle, the sound of harmonies," explains Temple, "but I also identify with folk. When I think of country at its best, I think of Merle Haggard and Hank Williams records and the way they took folk ideas to a bigger audience. It's not so clear what country music is anymore, but I would say my music still sounds like the country I like." Temple has never settled for anything less than that high standard, which is why he still proudly draws on songs dating back to his debut during his performances, be they solo acoustic or backed by a full band. But his growth as a songwriter between then and Right Here and Now is considerable, as he's moved beyond such detailed character sketches as General Store's "James' Blues" to explore a much broader but no less vivid canvas, looking beyond what he sees to ponder what it means. Thus, the three character portraits painted in the new album's "Little Sweet Loss" - each one worthy of a song all their own - are there merely to illustrate the song's message: it's the little frailties we all share that make us human and endearing to each other. "People you're passing on the street / They're the friends you may never meet / And everybody's paid the cost / of a little sweet loss." In "This Ain't Las Vegas," a bum hand dealt in Sin City sends Temple home with an empty wallet but renewed faith in the real world, where the house doesn't always win and true hearts aren't always bound to lose every time love is laid on the line. Similarly, in "No Daring is Fatal" - already a hit on Texas country radio and beyond from Victoria to Dallas to Sweden and Australia- Temple concludes that the only way to win in the real world is to live and love boldly: "If we don't step on the stage we might as well not raise the curtain." "With my songwriting I'm just trying to constantly explore what's interesting to me, and I try and frame it in three minutes, three verses and a couple of choruses that are hopefully interesting to other people too," says Temple. "I spend a lot time pondering these little emotional puzzles, and maybe I could sell them in a little bit simpler way to make them more mainstream, but odds are somebody's going to have to dial in their attention a little bit more to appreciate them. But I have found that there are a lot of people who are intrigued by the same little moments in life that I find interesting." Over the last years, Temple has committed himself to finding such fans one at a time, show by show, city by city and town by town. It's been the first time in his career that he's been able to devote a great deal of his attention to his music, thanks to his decision a few years ago to walk away from his 9 to 5 job as a financial analyst. It was a pretty big gamble - especially for a married man - but no daring is fatal, this ain't Las Vegas, and right here and now, Temple is a happy man.

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