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BONNIE WHITMORE:
Bonnie Whitmore is not new to the music business. For the last two decades, she’s played bass and sung with some of the biggest artists in the Americana genre: Hayes Carll, John Moreland, Eliza Gilkyson, Sunny Sweeney, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and Butch Hancock, to name a few. She’s also maintained a weekly residency at the legendary Continental Club Gallery in Austin, where she lives.
Bonnie grew up steeped in music and flanked by strong women. She toured in a band with her parents, Alex and Marti, and older sister Eleanor (now one-half of alt-country outfit the Mastersons with husband Chris Masterson) from an early age. A professional pilot, Alex Whitmore would fly the family to gigs at remote Texas bars and crowded festivals. Fun fact: Bonnie is a licensed pilot as well.
MATT HUBBARD:
Multi-instrumentalist (piano, organ, harmonica, guitar, bass, trombone, vibraphone and vocals), producer, composer and longtime Austin resident Matt Hubbard was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1970.
Matt studied at Interlochen and Oberlin Conservatory, receiving a Bachelors of Music in Composition and a Bachelors of Arts in English in 1994. Since moving to Austin after graduation he has worked with legend and mentor Willie Nelson for many years, recording and co-producing numerous albums and duets at Willie’s home studio in Luck, Texas. Highlights include “Rainbow Connection” (2001 Island/Def Jam) and “Run That By Me One More Time” (2003 Lost Highway), both nominated for the Country Album of the Year Grammy.
CAROLINE HALE:
With no disrespect intended, maturity is not a quality a music fan might expect from a debut album - let alone one made by an artist who’s only twenty-one years old. But for BFF, the first album by Austin-based singer/songwriter Caroline Hale, maturity is exactly what you get. With its emotional sophistication, textured production, and impressive degree of pure craft, BFF sounds more like an album made by a veteran with decades of experience, rather than a young person venturing into the music marketplace for the first time.
Of course, just because Caroline has been on the planet for less than a quarter of a century doesn’t mean she’s a neophyte. The San Antonio native began playing guitar at eight years old, having simply announced to her parents that it was what she wanted to do. Perhaps, she notes, it was the influence of the many music-centered shows on the Disney Channel. “The Disney girls like Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez, and Demi Lovato were in everything I watched as a young girl,” she says. “I think they were way more inspirational than I thought they were.” Outside of her childhood television habits, she absorbed inspiration from across the musical spectrum, from the Beatles and Metallica to Stevie Ray Vaughan and Taylor Swift.
DAVID JIMENEZ:
David Jimenez, a.k.a. The Last Jimenez, a singer-songwriter from the Rio Grande Valley has a unique perspective. Being the youngest on both sides of his giant family, (hence The Last Jimenez) he was destined to be a Tejano “living in between worlds” of a border town existence. Much like the bodies of water called “resacas” that inhabit the county where he was born and raised, his music is a specific blend of influences that don’t really exist anywhere else.
He’s part troubadour, soul man, guitar slinger, crooner and the end result is something he calls “Resaca Pop.” “The music just reflects where I’m from and where I’ve been,” says Jimenez. “It’s humid, breezy, sweet and mysterious.” Now based in Austin, he has quietly made himself a favorite among the deep artists and musicians while still being accessible to audiences that love greasy groove and hooks. “The deeper you go, the more you get but there’s still plenty on the surface.”