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"The Hogg Maulies came to KBCY back when they didn’t know what to call themselves. For years local guys have been getting together and forming bands. It’s good to see one of those band stick it out, practice, perform and get better. What can they do your station? Their songs will quickly become favorites on your show and your station, and listeners will be less apt to punch the button for your competition. Bring 'em to town, go see 'em at a show. Pull your head out and play 'em."
JB Cloud
KBCY Program Director/Brand Manager
- JB Cloud - DJ, Program Director - West Texas Saturday Nights, KBCY 99.7, Abilene, TX
"The Hogg Maulies pack the house."
Justin Case - Justin Case - Owner, Totally Kountry and DJ, KBCY 99.7, Abilene, TX
Hogg Maulies
“HERE TO STAY”
©2006 Independently Released
Review by Jinelle Boyd
I felt compelled to jot down a few notes as I listened to the Hogg Maulie’s album, “HERE TO STAY”. What made me take the time to share my thoughts was the fact that it was UNIQUE, so much so that I found myself calling up memories of being young and wild, discovering great music for the first time, and the carefree abandonment of laughing and loving with every cell in your being. That’s what the Hogg Maulies’ music does. It reminds you of the times before the establishment got its hooks into you and turned you into an upstanding, law-abiding citizen! Think the cool vibes of Buffalo Springfield, the simplicity of early Tom Petty and John Cougar, with just a hint of the soft-rock lyricism of Bread. These guys have a refreshing sound – and that’s not easy to do in this sometimes cookie-cutter mass-manufactured musical world we find ourselves in. On a side note, I read where the guys are recording a live album at Lubbock’s Blue Light in April of 2007. If the venue name sounds familiar, you’ll recall MTM member Wade Bowen and West 84’s live album recorded at the same place took home ALBUM OF THE YEAR at the 2004 Texas Music Awards! If the Hogg Maulies play their cards right, and get a producer worth his salt, I wouldn’t be surprised to see another live award-winning album come out of this fine Lubbock establishment. Bottom line: the Hogg Maulies are most definitely HERE TO STAY – especially in my own CD player. Good job, guys! - Independently Released - Mytexasmusic.com
Hogg Maulies
At the junction between 19th street and Texas Ave in Lubbock.... the music never dies. For the past 4 years, The Hogg Maulies have meshed their dreams of the future and the homage to the past while holding down a 12 hours at Texas Tech University. None of them are music majors, as they do not offer to teach Texan. It seems to be a degree achieved best by birth in Fisher County. The boys from Rotan can play!
I asked, "What are you going to do when you graduate?" Rode Morrow, lead singer for the Hogg Maulies replied, "I don't know, just keep playing I guess." Rode looked worried that this gig might not draw a crowd. 30 minutes later as he approached the stage to start the show, and the Texas Tech senior was greeted by a crowd of yells and cat calls. The place was packed, he wasn't worried anymore and the Hogg Maulies just kept playing.
The Hogg Maulies aren't just Texas Country's version of "Generation next". The crowd mix of college coeds and frat boys, Texas plowboys and middle aged crazies prove there is more here than generation. These guys are different. The prerecorded music before the show belts out everything from The Killers to Johnny Cash. You know these guys are more than just cold beer country rock and pickup ballads. In downtown Lubbock there is always the hint of Buddy Holly, Waylon Jennings, Mac Davis, and Pat Green in the atmosphere. These boys are just surfing the clouds of time in this place, and their music reflects it.
Hogg Maulie music is also something unique. It is the best of where they come from and who they are. This isn't Texas music; it is West Texas small town struggle to pay the crop note soul. They are trying to find something deeper in the soil, wishing for rain, and hoping to get a good price. They can't control it and they know it. It is perhaps ingrained in their being from generations of toil. They just keep playing.
The beer flows, as the crowd gets worked up from the sounds of guitar, bass, and fiddle. They end their last line of the first song in this chorus, "I roll on." They do. The Maulies entertain the crowd and themselves by playing a mixture of tracks from their 2006 release Here to Stay, and a few cover tune standards. My favorite song of the entire night is a song called Fall Back. It is by far the best song lyric I have heard in quite a while. Believe me when I state this, Rode Morrow can write. I mean that to say that in the vastness of Texas Music, I haven't listened to lyrics as superior to this. Jerod Foster (lead guitar), Parker Morrow (bass guitar), David Mullins (drums) can also play. Songs Goodnight and Here to Stay are their best fusions of talent.
Rode says that Jerod Foster “looks like Jesus." It is fitting. He is the lone member outside of Fisher County and is ironically from Paradise, Texas. I can't say for sure if he looks like Jesus, but the boy sure can play a guitar. As for the rest of the band and their looks, well they look like they should be delivering feed and hauling hey. But the way they play, I'm guessing that the junction of 19th and Lubbock, Texas is about to once again invade the airwaves of country. Like the many that came before, they know its all about truth of where you come from and where you’re going. Just keep on playing Hogg Maulies!
“I hope I don’t have to spend my whole life pickin, those cotton bolls from dusk til dawn.”-Pickin Time - KingFish
TOBY KEITH/High Maintenance Woman
Writer: Toby Keith/Tim Wilson/Danny Simpson; Producer: Toby Keith; Publisher: SKS3, BMI; Show Dog Nashville
-Toby's first self-produced single is a snappy guitar grinder wherein the maintenance guy at the apartment complex yearns for a babe who's out of his league. This is one of the best rockers of his career, right up there with "Who's Your Daddy" and "How Do You Like Me Now." Turn it up.
HOGG MAULIES/Here To Stay
Writer: Rode Morrow; Producer: Swade Moyers/The Hogg Maulies; Publisher: none listed, BMI; Hogg (806-549-3409)
-Pleasant, airy country-rock with just enough edge in the electric guitar solos.
- Robert K. Oeimann - writer for Music Row and also a judge on the first season of Nasville Star
Discography
Live @ The Blue Light - Lubbock, TX (2007)
Scheduled to release soon!
"Goodnight" - Hit #21 on the Texas Music Chart - 2006
"Here To Stay" - Top 25 on the Texas Music Chart - 2007
The Hogg Maulies: Live @ The Blue Light (2007)
1. Roll On
2. Love Is So Sweet
3. Here To Stay
4. Truth Be Known
5. Austin Slow Down
6. Right Where You Belong
7. Fall Back
8. Tower Bells
9. On Your Own Tonight
10. Dead Flowers
11. Goodnight
12. Greenback Dollar
13. On Your Own Tonight - Studio Version
Here To Stay (2006)
1. Here To Stay
2. Goodnight
3. Fall Back
4. Feel Me Anymore
5. Sweet Carolina
6. Long Time Gone
7. Cold Hard Winter Run
8. Let's Roll
9. Right Where You Belong
10. If The Red River Floods
11. Life
The Ride (2005)
1. Austin Slow Down
2. If I Wasn't Sober
3. Roads I've Traveled
4. One or Two
5. One to Hold
6. Longneck
7. Ride Cowboy Ride
8. Gonna Take Texas
9. Pickin' Time
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Bio
With powerful lyrics, driven songs, and a strong stage presence, The Hogg Maulies bring together the elements to create a distinctive sound to the Texas Music forefront.
Growing up in West Texas, Rode Morrow, Bradey Murphree, and David Mullins started a band in 2001 by plugging in two microphones and two guitars into one amplifier and started playing in a crop-duster hanger. It didn't take long for them to figure out that if they got out from under the tin in the hanger, they might just sound a little better. While attending Texas Tech University, they met up with Jerod Foster, from Paradise, Texas, whose lead guitar influences come from the 60s and 70s. The band was complete.
When asked once how the name “The Hogg Maulies” came about, the band replied:
“One night we were getting ready to go to a concert in Lubbock, and someone asked about a few of our buddies that hadn't come to see us play in a while. They were big farm boys and were always shopping for showhogs. So then it was said, ‘Those hogg maulies are never around to see us play,’ and thus we called the band The Hogg Maulies.”
Since the creation of The Hogg Maulies, they have broken into the market and have recorded two studio albums, along with a very recent live album in Lubbock at The Blue Light April 14th, 2007, scheduled to release soon. They have established a very loyal following around the state but consider Lubbock their home.
Since the conception of the band, fiddle player, Preston Wait from Campo, Colorado, and bass player Parker Morrow from Sweetwater, Texas, have been added to the group. They are currently music performance students at South Plains College, and Preston has made appearances with Texas Country act Cooder Graw, along with Nashville Recording Artist Trent Wellmon.
The Hogg Maulies’ first studio album, “The Ride,” was released in March, 2005. Additional musicians included Jason Lerma and Eric Andrews (Aaron Watson and the Orphans of the Brazos), Kina Lankford, Scot Williams, and Larry Rains. The album’s single, “Austin Slow Down,” was recognized as the number 35 song of 2005 by Radio Free Texas (www.radiofreetexas.org), where it spent eight weeks in the Top 10. The single also spent 10 weeks in the Top 10 on Texas Music Theater Radio (www.tmtr.net).
In late 2005, The Hogg Maulies reentered the studio to record their second album, “Here to Stay.” In August, 2006, the group brought in Debbie Green Promotions to assist in marketing The Hogg Maulies on the radio. The debut single from the album, “Goodnight,” made it to number 21 on the Texas Music Chart in 2006. The Hogg Maulies also had a follow-up single "Here To Stay," make the top 25 as well.
Smith Music Group just picked up "Here To Stay" and released in August of 2007. The album is available all over the state in select stores as well as digital online stores such as Itunes.
“The Hogg Maulies: Live@ the Blue Light” was recorded on April 14th, 2007, in Lubbock, Texas, and is scheduled to release soon. Matt Martindale from Cooder Graw will be the main producer for the album, which will have a studio track of the brand new song "On Your Own Tonight" as well. This is the first live album from The Blue Light since Wade Bowen's recording in 2001. Expect to see this record released by Smith Music as well.
The Hogg Maulies are planning to record their third studio album within the next with producer Matt Martindale from Cooder Graw once again at the reigns. The group states the new album “will be an awesome reflection of our success so far, all the fun we've had, and all of the people we've met. The songs on the album will push us to the limit, and we’re confident that with Martindale behind the wheel, it will be our biggest project yet.”
The Hogg Maulies’ influences can be attributed to just about all genres of music. Rode just likes great songs, no matter what genre, which seems to be the Texas Music forefront and ideology. Obviously, Jerod comes out of the 60's and 70's, while David and Parker thrive on both rock and country as well. Preston comes from Bob Wills of course, along with Bradey Black being his main influence from our generation.
The Hogg Maulies have shared the same stage with many artists and friends such as Reckless Kelly, Gary P. Nunn, Cooder Graw, the Eli Young Band, Aaron Watson, Travis Linville, Scott Evans, The Charlie Shafter Band, Tommy Alverson, Copperhead, Texas Jack, The Sunny Helms Band, and Drew Womack, and many more.
Management:
David Brooks
(806)535-1225
DBrooks@thebluelightlive.com
Contact Info:
(806) 549-3409
contact@hoggmaulies.com
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