By Joe Hyde
Publisher
October 20, 2007
Podcast
Reckless Kelly in San Angelo, Tx. Exclusive Interview 10/19/2007 by Joe HydeWilly and Cody Braun, the lead singer and fiddle player for the Texas Country sensation Reckless Kelly, talk about their roots in Idaho, their favorite song to open a show, their musical influences, and their rise to fame on their tour bus parked at Graham Central Station San Angelo, Texas. Interviewed October 19, 2007.
- Interviewer: Joe Hyde
- Year: 2007
- Length: 9:22 minutes (10.98 MB)
- Format: mp3 stereo 160 Kbps 44.1 kHz (cbr)
The band is now nearing 11 years of performing on the road, over 200 shows per year. In 2006, they released their latest album. Well, it isn’t just an album, but a three-disc live music compilation called Reckless Kelly Was Here (Sugarhill). The latest single is “Break My Heart Tonight,” earning over 100,000 downloads on their MySpace page and a fast rise up the Texas Country Music Charts. But that was August 2006, well over a year ago.
According to Willy Braun, lead singer and rhythm guitarist, the band is working on their next studio album. They expect to slow down their busy road schedule to get the disc complete early next year and released Summer 2008.
Fiddle, Mandolin, and harmony vocalist Cody Braun noted that the Reckless Kelly live show has evolved into more hard-driving rock songs. “But we still have the fiddle,” he assured, and country is still in their roots.
Cody and Willy (who was named by his parents after Willie Nelson) are the sibling core of the group. They round out the quintet with David Abeyta, Jimmy Mcfeeley, and Jay Nazz. All of them bring with them enough musical influences “to fill two iPods” of music, according to Willy.
The band’s name, Reckless Kelly, is a tribute to an Australian outlaw, Edward "Ned" Kelly (c. January 1855 – 11 November 1880). Kelly became a folk hero for his defiance of Australian colonial authority in the 19th century. He was born near Melbourne to an Irish convict father. After murdering three police officers in his hometown, Kelly was banished to the Australian outback, bush country, and formed an outlaw gang. He was eventually captured, convicted and hung in Melbourne. But his legend lives on in literature, art and film. And it lives on stage with the band.
In the Podcast linked above, brothers Willy and Cody talk about their rise in popularity, rock versus country, the favorite song to open their shows, Idaho, Oregon and Austin. The Podcast was recorded on their tour bus on October 19, 2007 at Graham Central Station San Angelo.
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