Vandoliers

Vandoliers were born out of a bad stretch for Jenni Rose. Her Fort Worth punk trio, the Phuss, had fallen apart, and then an infection in her eyes took away almost all her sight for eight weeks. Laid up, she found The Marty Stuart Show, heard how much punk and country have in common, and in one inspired weekend wrote the songs that became the band's debut, Ameri-Kinda. Producer John Pedigo of the O's helped her round out the demos and assemble a Dallas-Fort Worth supergroup drawn from local folk and metal bands, among them Whiskey Folk Ramblers, Vinyl, Revolution Nine and Armadillo Creek.

That was 2015. State Fair Records signed them the next year and reissued the album in October 2016, and The Native followed in May 2017, cut at the studio that gave the world Willie Nelson's Red Headed Stranger. It is credited with kicking off a cowpunk revival, and you can hear why: twangy country played with a punk's elbows out.

The Vandoliers, in 2022, brought "Better Run", and Life Behind Bars arrived in 2025 with its title track leading the charge, Rose still out front on lead vocals and guitar. They now record for Break Maiden Records and Thirty Tigers, with five studio albums behind them.

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