Album Notes

Since 1996, The Earl Sanders Jr. Band from Brookshire, Texas has created a style of country music that is a blend of the best and most original. Fans and followers feel the influence of the legends like Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, David Allan Coe, Johnny Cash, and Kris Kristofferson. Classic and traditional country music dominates their shows, but southern rock and Texas music infiltrate their sets regularly.

Jimmy and Bobby Sanders, a brother duo, have performed all over Texas in bars, clubs, dancehalls, and for private events like weddings and corporate parties. They’ve opened for legends such as John Conlee and Junior Brown. The brothers are backed by bass, rhythm, and steel guitars with Jimmy on lead guitar and vocals and Bobby on drums and vocals.

The Earl Sanders Jr. Band has recorded three independently released CD’s, and they have received radio airplay in Houston, Conroe, and Bryan/College Station.

"Rhymes and Melodies" was recorded in the summer of 2002 following a difficult split with brother and founding member, Doug Sanders. The Earl Sanders Jr. Band chose to enlist the control room skills of Houston studio legend A.V. Middlestedt at Soundmasters, a place that launched the careers of Mark Chesnut and Clay Walker. A.V.'s years of wisdom along with the patience and skills of his main engineer, Lonnie Wright, helped put together a proud collection of stories, humor, and serious calls to save country music from selling its soul and becoming a diluted, corporate-run clown show.