Though they’re honored by the recognition, Reckless Kelly might have preferred winning something besides Best Country Band at this year’s Austin Music Awards. Something like Best Live Band — their Lone Star Music Award win — works nicely. That’s because they’re hardly country; certainly not in the Nashville-approved sense, anyway. Brothers Cody and Willy Braun and their Austin-based band of merry men have described themselves as a rock band with a fiddle, which also works. But 2008’s Bulletproof, hailed as their best yet, hit No. 22 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart, thanks to hook-filled songs like “Ragged as the Road” and “A Guy Like Me,” or the political statement of “American Blood” and the personal reflection of the title tune. More than just a country band that rocks or a country-leaning rock band — or, for that matter, a good-time party band — Reckless Kelly is a band of substance. And that fits any genre.

COMMENTS
we love our reckless boys in Key West! rock on boys!!!!
6 months agoi’m gonna stay as close as possible to that stage
10 months agoI’m going to stay as far away as possible from that stage.
10 months agoReckless Kelly fits the genre of texas country or Red dirt music, shared by people like cross canadian ragweed, or johnny cooper. very unnashville sound and very very good
10 months ago