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On Thursday, September 22nd, the Astros host the Rockies at 7:05 p.m. and before the game you can attend the exclusive Reckless Kelly CD release party, presented by Budweiser!

Texas country music group Reckless Kelly will play an acoustic concert for fans that purchase this special ticket package. Purchase early through this page and receive discounted all-inclusive packages that feature:
Admission to the pregame acoustic concert
A copy of Reckless Kelly’s new album, ‘Good Luck and True Love’
Already have a September 22nd game ticket? Purchase the event package including Admission to the pregame acoustic concert and a copy of Reckless Kelly’s new album, ‘Good Luck and True Love’ for only $10!

Want to be VIP?

For an additional $25, fans have the opportunity to watch the show from an special VIP area, located right next to the stage. And, all fans purchasing the VIP package will have the opportunity to meet Reckless Kelly after the show! This great offer is limited to the first 30 fans to purchase, so don’t miss your chance – buy now!

The pregame concert will take place in the Union Station Lobby from 5:45-6:45 p.m. The concert will be general admission and standing room only. Buy your tickets for this exclusive event today!

Written by Timon Sotiropoulos     September 14, 2011

Everyone once in a while I get the opportunity to listen to something that I wouldn’t normally be exposed too. It isn’t often that I would head into a record store and pick up a country album, but Austin-based band Reckless Kelly just might make me change my tune. After listening to this exciting, heart-warming Texan soul, my eyes are well and truly open to the country world.

Good Luck & True Love has enough pop in it to not scare away new prospectors, but still has the country backbeat that the genre is known for. The new single (titled after the album) “Good Luck & True Love” is the perfect example of what Reckless Kelly has been doing for 15 years, and that is producing excellent country records. The storytelling lyrics about true love, the call and response pre-chorus with the band, even to the lovely, laid-back guitar solo, everything nails the country sound on the head that these gentlemen have made their own.

While most of the tracks fall into this parameter of what Reckless Kelly does really well, the few songs that really caught my ears were the ones where they tried something a little different. “I Never Liked St.Valentine” is an interesting song about never having a valentine (something I can relate all to well too) that has a mix of spoken-word verses to make it a little less informal. Also being a sucker for any fiddle or violin, “Weatherbeaten Soul” was given this real sad undertone thanks to some excellent violin work. There is also a classic ballad (also making use of the violin) in “I Stayed Up All Night Again”, while on the flip side “She Likes Money, He Likes Love” is this rocky driven, up-tempo tune that is quite different to the rest of the album. Still the genius thing about all these little differences is that Reckless Kelly don’t forget their country roots that still blossom throughout the entire album.

Overall Reckless Kelly’s new album Good Luck & True Love is a great country album with a few little sprinkles of other genres here and there. It has enough pop to give everyone something to listen to, but country fans will fall head over heels for this next installment in the glittered career of Reckless Kelly.

Good Luck & True Love is available online for digital download.

Perfect album in the eyes of a country listener and is a great album to throw on, take the cowboy boots off and put your feet up. Only improvement could have been to try and stretch the genre a little further then they did, but that doesn’t detract from this being a brilliant country album.

As Reckless Kelly–known for straddling rock and country with strong songs and performances–get set for their return with the September 13 release of their ninth album Good Luck & True Love, the band has announced additional tour dates and other events. Reckless Kelly now has 40 dates booked–beginning 9/3 in Ft. Worth, TX through 12/31 in Donnelly, ID–and have been invited to play a special post-game concert at Major League Baseball’s Houston Astros 9/23 home game.  They’ll also perform October 1 at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.  Reckless Kelly also recently posted a sizzle reel with interviews and archive footage of the band’s storied 15-year career.  Check it outhere.  In only its third week of release, the new album’s first single “Good Luck & True Love” is already #19 on the Texas Music Chart.

In the clip–set to the sound of the album’s title track and first single–Reckless Kelly talk about producing the album themselves, starting their own record company (No Big Deal Records) and taking over all of the band’s responsibilities.  There are also photos of the group with the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders when they performed at a 2011 Super Bowl party in Dallas, TX, performing at Boston’s Fenway Stadium and Houston’s Reliant Stadium, touring the country and more.

Good Luck & True Love marks the Austin-based band’s first studio album of all-new material since 2008’sBulletproof and is the follow-up to their 2010 release Somewhere In Time, a tribute to one of their songwriter heroes, Pinto Bennett.  Both of those albums hit the top 5 on the Billboard “Heatseekers” chart and top 20 on the Americana charts and Somewhere In Time was voted the #10 best album of the year by the Americana Music Association in 2010.  Last week A&E’s hit show “The Glades” featured the song “I’ve Done Everything I Could Do Wrong” from Somewhere In Time.

Beyond their studio acumen, the band is renowned for their relentless touring and high-energy live shows.   “Reckless Kelly is one of the best live bands ever,” said the Bakersfield Californian of a recent concert, adding that “they’re profoundly good, but, as is the case with any really good band, the magic is in the live shows (8/17/11).” 

After having released music via Sugar Hill and Yep Roc Records, Reckless Kelly–Willy Braun, lead vocals/rhythm guitar/Wurlitzer piano; Cody Braun, fiddle/mandolin/harmonica/bouzouki/harmony vocals; David Abeyta, lead guitar & piano; Jay Nazz, drums & percussion; and Chris Schelske, bass guitar–are now releasing the self-produced Good Luck & True Love on their own, and are now self-managed.

 “In 15 years as Reckless Kelly we’ve had to learn things the hard way and figure out what works for us and what doesn’t,” says the band.  “Trial and error.  We’ve always recorded to 2-inch analogue tape and we’ve always earned our fans one at a time. (Grass roots baby!) Over the years we’ve dabbled in conventional methods of promotion, touring and, of course, recording. Starting a record company and releasing our own records is something we have strived for our entire carrier. Now we feel we are finally in the perfect position with our business and band and are doing just that.”

As RECKLESS KELLY–known for straddling rock and country with strong songs and performances–get set for their return with the September 13 release of their ninth album GOOD LUCK & TRUE LOVE, the band has announced additional tour dates and other events. RECKLESS KELLY now has 40 dates booked–beginning 9/3 in Ft. Worth, TX through 12/31 in Donnelly, ID–and have been invited to play a special post-game concert at Major League Baseball’s Houston Astros 9/23 home game.  They’ll also perform October 1 at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.  RECKLESS KELLY also recently posted a sizzle reel with interviews and archive footage of the band’s storied 15-year career.  Check it out here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UnkizhEDjs.  In only its third week of release, the new album’s first single “Good Luck & True Love” is already #19 on the Texas Music Chart.

In the clip–set to the sound of the album’s title track and first single–RECKLESS KELLY talk about producing the album themselves, starting their own record company (No Big Deal Records) and taking over all of the band’s responsibilities.  There are also photos of the group with the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders when they performed at a 2011 Super Bowl party in Dallas, TX, performing at Boston’s Fenway Stadium and Houston’s Reliant Stadium, touring the country and more.

GOOD LUCK & TRUE LOVE marks the Austin-based band’s first studio album of all-new material since 2008’s Bulletproof and is the follow-up to their 2010 release Somewhere In Time, a tribute to one of their songwriter heroes, Pinto Bennett.  Both of those albums hit the top 5 on the Billboard “Heatseekers” chart and top 20 on the Americana charts and Somewhere In Time was voted the #10 best album of the year by the Americana Music Association in 2010.  Last week A&E’s hit show “The Glades” featured the song “I’ve Done Everything I Could Do Wrong” from Somewhere In Time.

Beyond their studio acumen, the band is renowned for their relentless touring and high-energy live shows.   “Reckless Kelly is one of the best live bands ever,” said the Bakersfield Californian of a recent concert, adding that “they’re profoundly good, but, as is the case with any really good band, the magic is in the live shows (8/17/11).”

After having released music via Sugar Hill and Yep Roc Records, RECKLESS KELLY–Willy Braun, lead vocals/rhythm guitar/Wurlitzer piano; Cody Braun, fiddle/mandolin/harmonica/bouzouki/harmony vocals; David Abeyta, lead guitar & piano; Jay Nazz, drums & percussion; and Chris Schelske, bass guitar–are now releasing the self-produced GOOD LUCK & TRUE LOVE on their own, and are now self-managed. “In 15 years as RECKLESS KELLY we’ve had to learn things the hard way and figure out what works for us and what doesn’t,” says the band.  “Trial and error.  We’ve always recorded to 2-inch analogue tape and we’ve always earned our fans one at a time. (Grass roots baby!) Over the years we’ve dabbled in conventional methods of promotion, touring and, of course, recording. Starting a record company and releasing our own records is something we have strived for our entire carrier. Now we feel we are finally in the perfect position with our business and band and are doing just that.”

GOOD LUCK & TRUE LOVE is quintessential RECKLESS KELLY with a blend of the gritty and the sublime.  There are road songs (“Weatherbeaten Soul,” “Hit The Ground Running”), tunes about music (“New Moon Over Nashville,” “I Stayed Up All Night Again”) and others about hard times (“Save Me From Myself”) and good old-fashioned heartbreak (“Give It A Try,” “Guarded Heart,” “She Likes Money, He Likes Love” and “I Never Liked St. Valentine”).  “Taking our old school approach a little bit further on this record, we made a rule that if someone in the band can’t play it, it’s not going on the record,” explains the band.  “We are proud to say that with the exception of an outstanding harmony vocal by our good friend Dani Flowers, we played every instrument on this record and tracked almost everything live.”

RECKLESS KELLY formed in Bend, OR in 1996 but quickly established themselves as a strong live act in and around Austin, TX and have been praised by Country Weekly for “injecting its hooky songs with rock ’n’ roll propulsion without sacrificing melody or meaning” (2009 review of Bulletproof).  Michael Corcoran of the Austin American Statesman called them “a rock band that writes country songs” and said “Bulletproof is an aggressive album with an anti-war song that outprotests James McMurtry. Even in the most stagnant of subgenres (alt-country), the Kellies strive to remain fresh…(6/11/08)”

Bulletproof earned the group a #1 Americana and #1 Texas Charts song spot with “Ragged As The Road.”  That album also earned them an Americana Music Association nomination for “Duo or Group of the Year (2009).”

By April MacIntyre Aug 31, 2011, 20:02 GMT

The band Reckless Kelly–known for straddling rock and country with strong songs and performances–get set for their return with the September 13 release of their ninth album “Good Luck & True Love.”

Also, the band has announced additional tour dates and other events.

Reckless Kelly now has 40 dates booked–beginning 9/3 in Ft. Worth, TX through 12/31 in Donnelly, ID–and have been invited to play a special post-game concert at Major League Baseball’s Houston Astros 9/23 home game.

They’ll also perform October 1 at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.

In only its third week of release, the new album’s first single “Good Luck & True Love” is already #19 on the Texas Music Chart.

In the clip–set to the sound of the album’s title track and first single–the band talk about producing the album themselves, starting their own record company (No Big Deal Records) and taking over all of the band’s responsibilities.

There are also photos of the group with the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders when they performed at a 2011 Super Bowl party in Dallas, TX, performing at Boston’s Fenway Stadium and Houston’s Reliant Stadium, touring the country and more.

After having released music via Sugar Hill and Yep Roc Records, Reckless Kelly–Willy Braun, lead vocals/rhythm guitar/Wurlitzer piano; Cody Braun, fiddle/mandolin/harmonica/bouzouki/harmony vocals; David Abeyta, lead guitar & piano; Jay Nazz, drums & percussion; and Chris Schelske, bass guitar–are now releasing the self-produced Good Luck & True Love on their own, and are now self-managed.

Good Luck & True Love marks the Austin-based band’s first studio album of all-new material since 2008’s Bulletproof and is the follow-up to their 2010 release Somewhere In Time, a tribute to one of their songwriter heroes, Pinto Bennett.

Both of those albums hit the top 5 on the Billboard “Heatseekers” chart and top 20 on the Americana charts and Somewhere In Time was voted the #10 best album of the year by the Americana Music Association in 2010.  Last week A&E’s hit show “The Glades” featured the song “I’ve Done Everything I Could Do Wrong” from Somewhere In Time.

“Reckless Kelly is one of the best live bands ever,” said the Bakersfield Californian of a recent concert, adding that “they’re profoundly good, but, as is the case with any really good band, the magic is in the live shows (8/17/11).”

“In 15 years as Reckless Kelly we’ve had to learn things the hard way and figure out what works for us and what doesn’t,” says the band.  “Trial and error.  We’ve always recorded to 2-inch analogue tape and we’ve always earned our fans one at a time. (Grass roots baby!) Over the years we’ve dabbled in conventional methods of promotion, touring and, of course, recording. Starting a record company and releasing our own records is something we have strived for our entire carrier. Now we feel we are finally in the perfect position with our business and band and are doing just that.”

Good Luck & True Love is filled with road songs (“Weatherbeaten Soul,” “Hit The Ground Running”), tunes about music (“New Moon Over Nashville,” “I Stayed Up All Night Again”) and others about hard times (“Save Me From Myself”) and good old-fashioned heartbreak (“Give It A Try,” “Guarded Heart,” “She Likes Money, He Likes Love” and “I Never Liked St. Valentine”).

“Taking our old school approach a little bit further on this record, we made a rule that if someone in the band can’t play it, it’s not going on the record,” explains the band.  “We are proud to say that with the exception of an outstanding harmony vocal by our good friend Dani Flowers, we played every instrument on this record and tracked almost everything live.”

Originally from Oregon, now an Austin band, Reckless Kelly was praised by Country Weekly for “injecting its hooky songs with rock ’n’ roll propulsion without sacrificing melody or meaning” (2009 review of Bulletproof).

Michael Corcoran of the Austin American Statesman called them “a rock band that writes country songs” and said “Bulletproof is an aggressive album with an anti-war song that outprotests James McMurtry. Even in the most stagnant of subgenres (alt-country), the Kellies strive to remain fresh…(6/11/08)”

Bulletproof earned the group a #1 Americana and #1 Texas Charts song spot with “Ragged As The Road.”  That album also earned them an Americana Music Association nomination for “Duo or Group of the Year (2009).”