LOS ANGELES, CA — The Boxmasters (Billy Bob Thornton, J.D. Andrew and Mike Butler) are supporting their latest album, Modbilly, with shows at several House of Blues locations, South By Southwest, and a recent run through Canada, Connecticut, and Massachusetts with Willie Nelson and Ray Price.
“I’ve been in bands from the time I was a little kid,” Thornton said, who has released four critically acclaimed solo records and released the third Boxmasters CD in less than a years’ time. “You know, during all the years I’ve played — and when I worked as a roadie, too — Shure microphones were all we had. I mean 58s and 57s mostly, which we still use to this day. They’re like the Cadillac of mics to us.”
Following a model established with their eponymously-titled first album in 2008, Modbilly serves up a self-defining story with disc one featuring a dozen original songs. Switch to disc two, and The Boxmasters reveal more of their inner musical selves with covers of Roger Miller’s “Half a Mind,” Tom Rush’s “Merrimack County” and John Hartford’s “Gentle on My Mind.”
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