Bridging the gap between Austin, Texas and Nashville, Tennessee, Arkansas born and bred country rock band, the ShotGunBillys, bring a Southern down-home and honest-about-it approach to country music. The SGBs offer a high-energy, rocking show with a firm, friendly handshake that keeps fans feeling welcome and coming back for more.
With way more years experience than they are willing to admit, the SGBs have played music from coast to coast and border to border. These years of burning up asphalt, playing show after show, has allowed the SGBs to work alongside some of rock and country's greatest artists, including Toby Keith, Kenny Chesney, Jason Aldean, Miranda Lambert, Trace Adkins, Gary Allen, Kenny Wayne Shepard and 38 Special.
The ShotGunBillys rely on gritty musicianship, years of sweating on stages and downright dirty talent to produce uniquely honest music that is originally unrefined, hard hitting and, above all, their own. So if you are into down-home, rockin, country music that is as honest as a hard week's work, then buckle up and take a ride with the ShotGunBillys!
The ShotGunBillys -- consisting of Lance McDaniel (lead vocals and guitar), David Snell (backing vocals and bass guitar), Theron Woods (backing vocals and guitar) and Case Cooper (drums and percussion) -- started playing as a three-piece band in 2009, then a four-piece in 2013, but actually got started much earlier.
Lance and David started playing together in 1994 as members of the Chase Buchanan Band, which recorded and toured extensively throughout the U.S. from 1994 to 2001. This band and these years of hard touring and recording forged the songwriting, musicianship and work ethic which ultimately became the founding sound of The ShotGunBillys. During these years, Case was honing his blues rock drum chops with Hubba Hubba, a rocking Florida party band, and other great artists from Florida's Gulf Coast area. Theron was leading his own band, tearing up the Southern rock circuit from St. Louis, Mo., to Oxford, Miss. After 2001, Lance embarked on a solo career in which he wrote, performed, recorded and produced a self-titled Christian album in 2004. David joined Northwest Arkansas guitar shredder TJ Scarlett as part of his power trio and earned 2005 Ozark Music Awards New Band of the Year and Bass Player of the Year honors.
The success of Lance and David, combined with Case relocating just outside the blues rock capitol of Memphis, Tenn., is what initiated the musical holy question: "Hey, you wanna start a band?" And the ShotGunBillys came to be!
Community on 07/02/2014