Logjam Presents

Reckless Kelly

Caroline Keys and Nate Biehl

Top Hat

Missoula, MT
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Logjam Presents Texas-based Country/Rock N Roll band Reckless Kelly live at The Top Hat on Friday, August 18, 2017! Tickets are SOLD OUT. *In order to accomodate this performance, The Top Hat will close briefly from 8:15pm – 8:30pm. Reckless Kelly Understanding the virtuosity of Reckless Kelly requires the perspective of where the band has been. Cody and Willy Braun grew… Continue Reading

Logjam Presents - Missoula, Montana false MM/DD/YYYY
8:30pm (door) 9:00pm (show)
$22 (Adv.) $25 (DOS) + applicable fees
All Ages
Sold Out

Logjam Presents Texas-based Country/Rock N Roll band Reckless Kelly live at The Top Hat on Friday, August 18, 2017!

Tickets are SOLD OUT.

*In order to accomodate this performance, The Top Hat will close briefly from 8:15pm – 8:30pm.

Reckless Kelly

Understanding the virtuosity of Reckless Kelly requires the perspective of where the band has been. Cody and Willy Braun grew up in the White Cloud Mountains of Idaho. They moved to Bend, Oregon, and then migrated to that great musical fountainhead, Austin, Texas.

The band’s co-founders and frontmen toured the country as part of their father’s band, Muzzie Braun and the Boys, as children. They performed on The Tonight Show twice. Their father taught his four sons a professional ethic – integrity, persistence, hard work and professionalism – honed over three generations. They overcame hardships, struggled for recognition, and learned the lessons of the trial and error that defined them.

In one sense, it’s remarkable in the way of any musician, athlete, or businessperson who bucks the odds.

In another, though, it’s utterly natural that Reckless Kelly, born in the dreams of the two Braun brothers and their heritage but nurtured in the bumpy road of maturity, became the very essence of Americana music in all its far-flung glory.

“We came along in that second wave of the movement,” Cody Braun says. “Son Volt’s album Trace had a major effect on us. People like Joe Ely, Ray Kennedy and Robert Earl Keen were always big supporters. Our goal was to make music that had a country vibe but a solid rock edge.”

In the end, all the recipe required was to just add water. Water facilitates life. It enriches the soul.

As Music Row magazine proclaimed, “In my perfect world, this is what country radio would sound like.”

“This” is Reckless Kelly.

Caroline Keys and Nate Biehl

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Caroline Keys and Nate Biehl have been making music together for almost 15 years. From single-mic gospel to lo-fi experimental to scores for film and live performance and anything in between, they’ve encouraged and dared each other to push limits every chance they get. Their current act is informed by thousands of miles of traveling, listening and entertaining side by side, and contains anything from vintage drum machines to acapella hymns.