Former South Austin Jug Band/MilkDrive fiddler preps new rock LP.
offers up something different from Beken though, leaning into his more rocking inclinations. During the pandemic, with his other projects on hold, Beken holed up in a house on Lake Travis with a laptop and two microphones and recorded the entire album himself.
“I always thought I’d just follow the formula and eventually make a solo record in a formal studio with hired musicians and engineers. I just didn’t know when I’d get around to it. So when lockdown happened, I dug out all my gear and old songs and just hit record. It started as just an exercise in music but grew into something I thought might actually be good enough to release.”, “The Weekend,” premieres with a video below.
Beken attributes the rock bug to his childhood musical diet in the Nineties and early 2000s: “I just loved how those guitars sounded – the grooves, attitude, and aesthetics – of bands like Pixies, then coupled with older hook-oriented bands like the Beatles and the Kinks. By the time I came around to Stone Temple Pilots or Beck, I was enthralled at how they could mix up so many styles like hard rock, jazz, calypso, country, hip-hop and create something new.
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