nelo

Biography

Austin-based nelo’s easy and compulsive 21st hundred years pop sound offers broad industrial appeal, with sufficient Texas inside it to maintain things razor-sharp and durable. The band’s roots lay in Dallas, TX, where guitarist and songwriter Matt Ragland, guitarist Stephen Goodson, drummer Chris Hill, and tenor sax participant David Long performed collectively while still in senior high school. By 2002, with business lead vocalist Reid Umstattd and multi-instrumentalist (bass, trumpet, trombone, body organ) Mike St. Clair up to speed, the entire six-piece was set up. The music group itself noticeable 2005, the entire year the complete group relocated collectively to Athens, GA, like a formal starting place. With an infectious group of initial songs as well as the pop feeling to draw them away, nelo (the name rhymes with “hello”) had been soon a popular for the Georgia membership circuit. However they still maintained a strong Tx fanbase aswell, and discovered themselves touring little and medium locations both in states, making issues happen on two fronts simultaneously. Manufacturer Freddy Fletcher, who been country vocalist Willie Nelson’s nephew, captured nelo at among their Texas displays and was impressed more than enough to create the music group into Nelson’s Pedernales Studio room in Austin, TX, and begin recording an record. The band still left Athens and shifted back again to Austin to focus on the task, which was ultimately released in 2008 because the self-titled nelo by Houston-based Justice Information. Ordinary Scene implemented two years afterwards, along with a live program back Pedernales produced the establishing for 2012’s Aged Close friends… (Live at Pedernales Studio room). Another self-titled recording adopted in early 2014.

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