Red Eye Junction "The New Heroes of Honky Tonk" Conceived one night over a few ice cold cans of domestic, in the closest thing the city of San Luis Obispo can call a Honky-Tonk, 1019 McCarthy's Irish Pub. Red Eye Junction understands the true essence of what classic country and western/ honky tonk music is but reinvents the idea to become fresh and new. Certainly not retro, yet unlike anything in the mainstream today. REJ says of the new album "We wanted to look at what happened to country music, how did it end up where it is now. It is really just pop music on a 'country' radio station. We really wanted to find the point in time when it went pop and look at a different path from that point. The 80's is when we feel it really started diverged. We went back and started there then, instead of pop, we wrote songs that looked forward but maintained the country western/ roots, Americana grounding. We think we got something new without feeling retro and yet far from the new Nashville sound" Influence heavily by Hank Williams, Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, and Dwight Yoakam to name a few. Listen to tales of the down and out, the up and coming, and the on he run, through fourteen original songs on the new album 'Better Days.' No generic bullshit here, just hard hittin' country and western music born and bred in the heart of the Central Coast California.
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