Indie Country rocker Wade Bowen announced today via social media that SOLID GROUND will be released February 9, 2018 (Thirty Tigers). Produced by Keith Gattis, the album features “Acuña,” (out now) which longs for glory days spent in the small Texas-Mexico border town.
The upcoming album’s cover, revealed today at WadeBowen.com, depicts a weathered map stamped into the cracked red dirt of Bowen’s home state. While the album is clearly a loud, dirty love letter to Bowen’s roots, it’s also a wide-ranging addition to a not-quite-country, not-quite-rock genre where Springsteen, Tom Petty and Mellencamp are as influential as Guy Clark.
“Saying ‘this is my Texas album’ seems like an obvious statement from a guy who’s sweated it out in as many beer halls as I have…but Gattis pushed me harder on my writing than I’d ever been challenged before,” says Bowen. “Each morning, he and I got to the studio hours before the band to write, so the album’s sound was unfolding organically as we were recording it which unified the mood and grit of the whole thing.”
An acoustic version of “Acuña” was recorded by Bowen for his bi-weekly YouTube series, Garage Mahal.
Click HERE to watch that performance.