NEW MUSIC: JD & THE BRASS SADDLE BAND
Northern Utah-based Ameripolitan band JD & The Brass Saddle Band release two new singles, “Santa Maria” and “Amazing Grace,”—an original, dark country tale of the beautiful old West and a classic song of hope.
NEW RELEASE
ARTIST: JD & The Brass Saddle Band—Northern Utah: Jd Devey, (guitar, singer/songwriter), Nik Brown (drums), Kiwi Gomski (rhythm guitar and backup vocals), Sean Salisbury (lead guitar), and Cooper Lavallee (bass).
SINGLES: “Amazing Grace” and “Santa Maria” (available May 18)
UPCOMING SHOWS: Lighthouse Lounge, Saturday, May 13
Jd Devey grew up in Arizona watching country legends like Marty Robbins and Waylon Jennings, influences you can hear in his own original style of classic country. His love of Louis L’Amour and history also shaped his old-school Western sound that revitalizes a time “when the bars were smokey and the music was original.”
JD & The Saddle Brass Band started in Logan in 2017 after Devey met Nik Brown and Kiwi Gomski (a nationally-touring artist of Rasperry Protocol band) through a mutual friend. “They are some of my best friends,” says Devey. Sean Salisbury is the lead guitarist and Ogdenite Cooper Lavallee recently joined the band on bass. Devey’s desert roots in Arizona and the others’ mountain origins come together to create a unique Southwestern-Rocky Mountain blend of alt-country.
The song and story for their upcoming release of the beautiful, sad country ballad “Santa Maria” came to Devey several years ago while hiking along the Santa Maria River. “The desert is a fickle place and there are many years where if there’s not enough rain, the Santa Maria river will dry up by the end of May…a lot of Western men and women have died out on those deserts, and been swallowed up by the Sands of Time, never to be heard from again, their deaths remaining a mystery.” Amazing Grace is their “own take on the classic song of hope.” Both tracks were independently produced and recorded by the band.
See their next live show: JD & The Saddle Bass Band, Saturday, May 13, Lighthouse Lounge, Ogden, 9 p.m., $5.Facebook @JDbrasssaddleBand
Instagram @jdbrasssaddleofficial
YouTube @countrywestern2272
