Austin, Texas’ The Gourds have never been much on sentiment. Since the band started defining Gourds Music, as it has come to be known, with Dem’s Good Beeble in 1997 and the quirky Stadium Blitzer in 1998, ten albums later, they have chugged through America fueled by music and a near-pathological need for a good time.

While songwriters Kevin Russell and Nacogdoches’ own Jimmy Smith have written most the dense, reference-laden country songs of the last 10 years and almost single-handedly made a place for deep thought in a genre of “Honky Tonk Badonkadonks” they have, for the most part, shied away from the tear-in-my-beer ballads that made country music a commercial powerhouse over the last 50 years.

Legendary Performing Songwriter David Olney and multi-instrumentalist Sergio Webb are converting new audiences while continuing to give the fans what they want.

Over an impressive professional career spanning four decades, David Olney has built a reputation not as a kind-hearted troubadour, but rather as a performing songwriter with a sharp literary mind that often cuts to the bone of the human condition. Whether the subject matter is heartbreak or armed robbery, Olney's cinematic style and fearless approach to lyric writing have won him a reputation as a kind of musical outlaw. Sergio Webb is a guitar slinging, spaghetti western, string genius. Together on stage they create a dizzying array of musical textures and colorful story songs.