featuring the very best of americana, alt.country and roots music
October 9, 2024
Scott Foley, purveyor of dust
Reckless Kelly has served as a pillar for our kind of music for nearly thirty years, since brothers Willy and Cody Braun made their way from Idaho to Bend, Oregon, and down to Austin where they settled. With contributions to americana, country, and Texas/red dirt rock, they have maintained a constant presence, and have continued to create consistently excellent music, up to and including last month's ominously titled Last Frontier. As a couple excellent live records have documented, they are notoriously strong performers, though the band's website promises Reckless Kelly will step down from traditional touring by the end of next year. During their time, the Brauns have also earned a reputation for delivering some of the most melodic roots music available, as attested by our playlist below which is riddled with hooks. Like Old 97s on whom we focused our Lookback Machine a couple weeks ago, Reckless Kelly remind listeners of the real potential for popular appeal in roots music.
RECKLESS KELLY: thirty favorites
- "Walton Love" Millican (Cold Spring, Jul 98)
- "Back Around" Millican
- "I Still Do" Millican
- "Hey Say May" Millican
- "Drink Your Whiskey Down" Millican
- "Baby's Gone Blues" Millican
- "Wild Western Windblown Band" Millican (20th Anniversary)
- "Eight More Miles" Acoustic: Live At Stubbs (Valley, Jun 00)
- "Lonely All the Time" The Day (Valley, Oct 00)
- "Walk Out Now" The Day
- "Crazy Eddie's Last Hurrah" The Day
- "Let's Just Fall" Under the Table and Above the Sun (Sugar Hill, May 03)
- "Nobody's Girl" Under the Table and Above the Sun
- "Desolation Angels" Under the Table and Above the Sun
- "Vancouver" Under the Table and Above the Sun
- "Wicked Twisted Road" Wicked Twisted Road (Sugar Hill, Feb 05)
- "Motel Cowboy Show" Wicked Twisted Road
- "Ragged As the Road" Bulletproof (Yep Roc, Jun 08)
- "Love In Her Eyes" Bulletproof
- "American Blood" Bulletproof
- "Weatherbeaten Soul" Good Luck & True Love (No Big Deal, Sep 11)
- "Good Luck & True Love" Good Luck & True Love
- "Idaho" Long Night Moon (No Big Deal, Sep 13)
- "How Can You Love Him (You Don't Even Like Him)" Sunset Motel (No Big Deal, Sep 16)
- "Moment In the Sun" Sunset Motel
- "Thinkin' 'Bout You All Night" American Jackpot/American Girls (No Big Deal, May 20)
- "I Only See You With My Eyes Closed" American Jackpot/American Girls
- "Lonesome On My Own" American Jackpot/American Girls
- "Keep Lookin' Down the Road" Last Frontier (No Big Deal, Sep 24)
- "Last Frontier (ft Kelly Willis)" Last Frontier
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