Jason Boland & The Stragglers
Jason Boland & the Stragglers is an American Coutryband the Red Dirt scene.
Band History
The band Jason Boland & the Stragglers was launched in Stillwater, Oklahoma by Jason Boland 1998. Besides Boland as the front man were from the beginning, the guitarist Roger Ray and Brad Rice, as well as the bassist Grant Tracy here. Soon they were an integral part of the Red Dirt scene and published a year after its founding it - produced by Lloyd Maines and Adam Odor - debut album Pearl Snaps. After the release of their second studio album Truckstop Diaries in 2001, to the likes of Mike McClure, Bob Childers, Stoney LaRue and Randy Crouch were involved, Boland moved in 2002 to Austin, Texas and later to New Braunfels. A year before the publication of a third studio album in the summer of 2004, also joined Noah Jeffries, including banjo and Fiddlespieler, the band.
Gradually the albums middle of the last decade have also been commercially successful. With the published 2004 Somewhere in the Middle, the band reached the genre charts, giving them with The Bourbon Legend first time in 2006 - almost exactly a year after Jason Boland was because of his alcoholism for 28 days at a drug treatment - again succeeded. For several years, the group can also regularly place on the Billboard 200. She succeeded with the work published in 2008 Comal County Blue for the first time. On this one could Country singers such as Robert Earl Keen, Bob Childers or Cody Canada win for duets. These successes were able to re- chart positions of albums Rancho Alto High in the Rockies: A Live album, which was recorded at concerts in January 2010, be confirmed.