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BIG STATE

BULLET POINTS:

"Viva Ne'er-Do-Wells", "Sure Thing" and "The Stuff of Legends"all received airplay on over 80 radio stations in North America, Europe, and Australia.

"Viva Ne'er-Do-Wells" spent 5 weeks inside the Top 10 for Roots Music (RMR), as well as charting in the Top 20 Texas Music chart for 3 weeks, and the Top 25 of the RMR Rock Chart. "Sure Thing" and "The Stuff of Legends" charted inside the Top 25 for Roots Music (RMR) and "Sure Thing" was a Top 100 album for 2017.

"Viva Ne'er-Do-Wells" was a AMA Top 100 album and remained in the Top 150 for 13 weeks. "Sure Thing" spent 12 weeks inside the AMA Top 150. "The Stuff of Legends" was inside the Top 150 for 7 weeks.

"Bourbon" track was featured on on Bob Harris Country on BBC radio

"Fifty years after The Sweetheart of The Rodeo album comes a band so much influenced by that record..., the great Big State"

- Whispering Bob Harris, UK Radio Hall of Fame, The Old Grey Whistle Test television show

"One of the better CDs I have heard this year. They are a great blend of barroom rock and roll and twang - cut from the same cloth as the Old 97's and Bottle Rockets,but with their own stamp on the style. These guys have a killer new CD on their hands!"
- WCNI

"Track after track they pave their way, they force you to realize that they sound right, I would even say they play excellent Alt-Country rock with a good spirit and good intensity"
- American Roots Music

"Carrying the torch first lit by Old 97's and others with true Alt-Country/Rock panache"

- Bonnie Gollhofer, KBUT

"They've got a sound akin to the Old 97's or Uncle Tupelo, but make no mistake; Big State is 100% Austin Country. Grab yourself a frosty beverage of your choice and be prepared to be entertained."

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BIO:

Pulling together bar band swagger, honky-tonk stomp, and pop-rock smarts and vigor, Big State barnstormed the alternative country-rock scene in Austin in the beginning of 2016. They quickly caught on at several notable local venues with the unique blend of Roots and Americana and their sweaty, good-time, high-octane shows. In the summer of 2017 Big State released their first studio album, Sure Thing, receiving airplay on over 80 radio stations. 2018's follow-up, The Stuff of Legends, received similar airplay, including play on BBC2 radio on "Whispering Bob"Harris' Bob Harris Country.

After a break due to Covid, Big State released their third album, Viva Ne'er-Do-Wells in January 2024. Recorded over 6 days at FAME Recording Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and mastered by Pete Lyman of Infrasonic Sound, the album reflects on the life changes of the past few years, and the dogged determination to keep a positive outlook and not let go of dreams, even as time slips away. Viva Ne'er-Do-Wells was again played on over 80 radio stations, was a Top 100 AMA album, stayed in the Top 10 of the Roots Music charts for 5 weeks, was the its genre's album of the week for RTV1 in the Netherlands, among other accomplishments.

With a tip of the cap to their influencers such as Uncle Tupelo, Old 97's, and Slobberbone, Big State's songs are irreverent and entertaining, blending the biographical and pure fiction, and drawing from that story-telling gene that's inherently built into a Texan. The haywire result that is growing up and being a musician in Austin is evident, as the music is equal parts Willie and The Clash, that always present intersection of Country and Punk/Rock that exists in the Live Music Capital of the World.

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