SONG PREMIERE: Cowboy Curtys Drops Gritty & Explosive Love Letter To Athens On “Nantahala”

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Cowboy Curtys is a southern garage-psych outfit led by LaGrange, Georgia-born-and-bred singer/songwriter Josh Parsons. After several years of teasing the project with a slew of live shows and releasing a single here or there, the band is poised to step into the spotlight with its debut album Commotions. Named for a derelict strip club in Parsons’ hometown, the album’s moniker serves as a southern-gothic effigy evoking the feelings and memories Parsons simultaneously loved and hated about his middle Georgia upbringing; a feeling undoubtedly familiar to many of those raised well outside of the city limits south of the Mason-Dixon line.

Camaraderie is a major theme across Commotions, and the motif extends well beyond the songwriting itself. Recorded mostly live-in-a-room in Athens’ Gift Horse Studio, Commotions boasts a wide range of local players lending their hand to Cowboy Curtys’ communal vision. With Drew Beskin on guitar and keyboards, Frank Keith IV (Great Peacock, Tedo Stone) on bass, and Jeremy Cosper on drums comprising the core of the studio band, the album also features contributions from Matt “Pistol” Stoessel (Faye Webster, Cracker) on pedal steel, keyboard parts by Andrew Shepard (Lo Talker, Roadkill Ghost Choir), and further guitar work from Modern Skirts’ Phillip Brantley.

Glide is premiering the cryptically explosive single “Nantahala,” which blasts and squalls like a long-lost Roky Erickson track. There is a a piss and vinegar stench on this back-to-basics rocker that never lets its guard down.

“This song is a weird summertime love letter of sorts to Athens, Georgia. I began writing it in, and named it after the first house I lived in after moving there. Being 25 with cheap rent and big ol’ dreams. Go Dawgs.” – Josh Parsons aka Cowboy Curtys

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