A staple in the Texas music scene since forming in 2006 at Lobbock’s Texas Tech University. Josh Abbot Band has weathered many storms together including divorces, burying fathers, the Route 91 Harvest Shooting, and a pandemic. Country fans have been singing JAB songs for more than a decade already. The seven-piece group’s relentless on-stage attitude quickly made it a successful touring act, building out from a Texas band to a regional act to a national crew with a devout following from coast to coast. Concurrently, JAB developed its own label, Pretty Tough Records, before that was an accepted practice in country circles. Two of their projects, Small Town Family Dream and Front Row Seat scored top 10 debuts on the Billboard country singles lists, while five titles cracked the Billboard country singles lists including a pair - “Oh, Tonight” with Kasey Musgraves; and “Wasn’t That Drunk,” with Carly Pearce - that represented their first chart appearances. Led by the true-to-life cycles in Abbott’s life, Abbott ambitiously documented the dissolution of his first marriage in Front Row Seat. And the expansive Until My Voice Goes Out, recorded as Abbott tended to an ailing father, mixing elegant strings and a Memphis-tipped horn sound. In 2020 JAB released their 6th studio album The Highway Kind, the band’s follow-up to 2017’s string horn infused Until My Voice Goes Out, the uplifting 10-track album was recorded at Sonic Ranch in El Paso and produced by Marshall Altman
