This band is my new favorite find. Goodnight, Texas is a bi-coastal outfit led by Avi Vinocur (San Francisco) and Patrick Dyer Wolf (North Carolina) named after a ghost town equidistant between them.
Their excellent debut album, A Long Life of Living, is about as Americana as it gets. Vintage, sepia-tinged artwork. References to Maggie’s farm. Multiple tales of manual labor. Odes to California AND Carolina. A song called “Jessie Got Trapped In a Coal Mine.” Transcontinental migrations, cancelled weddings and dusty porches.
Laid back and lovely but never boring, this is folk music with a steely blues edge. Promises of hand-clapping and foot-stomping to make me really excited to see these guys live.
Their west coast CD release party is Oct 26th at Cafe du Nord in San Francisco.
You can stream their entire album and fall in love now at Relix and then pick up the album next Tuesday 10/02. You can download a free single over at their website, too.











