Music

Sunset Motel (2016): Reckless Kelly latest release on their own label, No Big Deal Records, was recorded in Austin, TX at Arlyn Studio where they recorded their first album twenty years earlier.

2017 brings their 3rd Grammy nomination for Best Recording Packaging. The packaging presents itself as an enticing 1950s-60s era travel brochure for the Sunset Motel, promising a desert oasis – a place to “escape from it all.”

The reality, however, as only seen through the translucent red Motel Key Tag included within the CD Digipak, is a run-down possibly-abandoned flea-bag motel. It’s hey-day is far gone.

Long Night Moon (2013) Winning a Grammy for Best Artist Packaging, packaging unfolds to a complete night and day theme. Some of the astral artwork glows in the dark, and there are also secret codes and messages.

Here are 12 songs about love, road life, conflict, tenderness, and resignation, the themes of constant motion and travel emerge as dominant and haunt Braun's fine lyrics that all reflect the tensions in the heart of the wandering musician.

Good Luck & True Love (2011): Reckless Kelly’s first release on their own record label, No Big Deal Records. This album hit the Americana Top 20 chart. It was nominated for a Grammy for best recording package.

The inside booklet and jewel case turn into a silent-picture movie viewer, while the CD itself transforms into a fortune-telling spinner wheel.

Bullet Proof (2008) CD is the fifth studio album by Americana band Reckless Kelly. A song off the album, God Foresaken Town, was written with Robert Earle Keen in reflection of Hurricane Katrina. This effort reached 22 on the Billboard’s Top Country Albums and charted on Billboard’s Top 200.

Best of the Sugar Hill Years CD (2007): is a compilation by Americana band Reckless Kelly. It features songs from their three albums from Sugar Hill Records including, Under The Table and Above The Sun, Wicked Twisted Road, and RK Was Here.

Wicked Twisted Road (2005) was the fourth studio album by Americana band Reckless Kelly released and their first release on Sugar Hill Records. The CD casing holds The Board Game, folded into the CD insert with a tiny red die in the CD spine, traces all such pitfalls, including the ultimate "Freebird" landmark: a "plane crash, game over" square.

Under the Table & Above the Sun CD (2003): The third studio album by Americana band Reckless Kelly, and their second with Sugar Hill Records.

Reckless Kelly's first live album. It was recorded at Stubb's Bar-B-Q in Austin, TX. The album features a cover of Bob Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues, AC/DC's You Shook Me All Night Long and Led Zeppelins Whole Lotta Love.

Millican (1997) Reckless Kelly’s first studio album recorded at Arlyn Studios in Austin, TX.