Texas country/rock, singer/songwriter, americana, alt-country, country, rock, pop

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COUNTRY: Modern Country, ROCK: Americana



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âWrite what you know.â No one had to tell Texas singer-songwriter Travis Saturday those four key words of creative advice. Itâs what he does naturally, canât help but do so, in fact. And itâs also one big reason why the 12 songs on his debut album Broke in Eleven Places resonate with the ring of truth as well as vivid echoes of real life experience.

Broke in Eleven Places is something of a song cycle that begins with âBack Down,â a defiant farewell to a love gone bad, and ends with âHere I Go Again,â a lovely and musically sparse summation of the effects on Saturdayâs soul and life from the women who inspired the songs on the album. âTheyâre based on the 11 most influential women in my life,â he explains. âMost were lovers, some were friends, and all of them influenced the decisions I made, good and bad, when I would come to a fork in the road.â

Produced by Ken Tondre â best known in the Lone Star State music world as the drummer for Kevin Fowler â and recorded with top Texas players at his Austin studio The Compound, Broke in Eleven Places runs the musical spectrum from the hard rocking country of âTexas Educationâ to the heart-wrenching balladry of âI May Love You.â Among the gamut of moods it touches on are temptation (âFire Tonightâ), loss (âGood Morning Goodbyeâ), tempestuous love (âJust In Timeâ), a longing for emotional peace (âHold Me Downâ) and the pleasures of the open road (âWaiting In Phoenixâ), all of it drawn from Saturdayâs personal experiences. As the metaphor of âHalf The Hell Haggard Hasâ makes clear, itâs an album of songs that sprung from living and loving as hard as one man can.

While he was born and raised in Houston, Travis Saturday has a background thatâs both urban and rural. âI was a city boy who had dual citizenship,â he explains, thanks to spending most every weekend while he was growing up in the small town of Hallettsville, where much of his family has farmed for generations. And it was over those weekends that he was all but literally weaned on music.

âMy father played in a dancehall band called Gold Dust, and heâd take my brother and I along to the shows. There was a period there when I spent every Saturday night in a different Texas town, at a different dancehall. The old wooden buildings with carpet covered stages, wooden dance floors slick with sawdust full of couples dancing and laughing, it was an atmosphere Iâll never forgetâ he explains. âOne night Dad let me stand next to him on the stage while he sang 'Help me Make it Through the Night'. As I stood there looking out into a sea of couples dancing slow and close, I realized what I wanted to do with my life."

Surrounded as he was by music, Saturday started creating lyrics set to melodies not long after. In a song he titled âSunday Bluesâ that he recorded on an old Radio Shack cassette recorder at the tender age of eight, Travis sang about getting a divorce in the first verse, and then in the next verse about losing his second wife in a tragic accident. âHalf of that prophecy has come true, which makes me weary about the prospect of ever re-marryingâ, Travis comments with a chuckle.

It took a whole lot of living over a dozen or so years for Travis Saturday to get from the first real song that he wrote to finally releasing his first album. But after 15 jobs, 14 moves, eight relationships, five college campuses, four bands, three arrests, two sons and one ruptured spleen, Broke in Eleven Places is here to announce his arrival on the Texas music scene. And it takes but a spin of the CD to hear how that journey has led Saturday to a powerful place of lyrical wisdom, insight and honesty as well as a musical style that skillfully rides the razorâs edge between country and rock.