Reckless Kelly covers expansive territory on two new albums, American Jackpot and American Girls, both released this Friday. Founded by Willy Braun and his brother Cody Braun in 1996, Reckless Kelly has migrated from its Idaho roots to Austin, Texas, […]
AltCountry&Beyond’s 15 Favorite Albums of 2016 2016 was another banner year for music, though we also grieve for lost music legends like Merle Haggard and Guy Clarke, among others, who made inspired contributions to country and roots music. Like last […]
While their previous outing, 2013’s Long Night Moon, had a gentle, quiet lean, Reckless Kelly balance the ballads with roots rockers on their latest, Sunset Motel, due September 23rd. Their ninth studio album finds the quintet – brothers Cody and Willy Braun, David Abeyta, Joe Miller […]
Summertime spells festival season, and in the Northern Rocky Mountains, though the festival season is relatively short (running from early July until late August), it also seems to be the time of year when musicians like to flee the heat […]
Brothers Willy and Cody Braun relocated from Oregon to Austin to escape the flannel shirts of the grunge crowd and commingle with like-minded purveyors of the country-rock sound in Texas. That was 1997, and after eight years and four albums, […]
Reckless Kelly piles harmonies, fiddle, twanging guitar and other down-home touches high upon their rock. They do it well, writing more of open roads and mountain meadows than of honky-tonks and dark hollers — no surprise, since brothers Cody and […]
Reckless Kelly are so perfect that if they didn’t exist, some record company would invent them. Early 20s, fine players, soap opera attractive, terrific lead singer, excellent sense of song structure, hooks galore and very commercial country-rock sound. Ready for […]
