A little bit honky tonk and a little bit Texas, with healthy dashes of Bakersfield and vintage Nashville, singer/songwriter
Luke Bell records in a throwback style, but writes from his own well-traveled experiences. A native of Cody, Wyoming, the former ranch hand put in a few years of college in Laramie before the music bug caught hold and took him first to Austin, where he put together a band and landed a residency at revered local dive The Hole in the Wall. After releasing his debut in 2012, he spent some time in both Oregon and New Orleans, writing and further developing a classic style that recalls shades of classic
Roger Miller and
Buck Owens.
Bell eventually found his way to Nashville where his self-released second LP, 2014's
Don't Mind If I Do, set bigger things in motion. Nashville talent agency WME heard something they liked in
Bell, and before long he was on the road opening dates for
Willie Nelson,
Hank Williams, Jr., and
Dwight Yoakam. With the Thirty Tigers agency now also on his team, he returned to the studio to record a handful of new songs, which were then combined with material from
Don't Mind If I Do to create his self-titled third release which arrived in June 2016. ~ Timothy Monger