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We cracked the Top 100 on the Americana Chart this week as a SELF RELEASE!

We also stayed in the top 40 on the Alt Country Chart!

Thanks to everyone for playing/listiening to the album!

Fans of the long and winding history and tradition of Texas-style country bar music have been rejoicing as soon as they lay ears on Austin Mayse’s well-received LP, “Bridges & Kerosene”. Maybe this 10-track album’s top achievement is twofold. Firstly, Mayse’s uncut earnestness, and secondly, producer and Tejas multifaceted artist Chris Beall has taken the role of a sherpa to these songs instead of a heavy-handed studio wizard. Allowing Mayse and his visions to breathe and prosper in all their raw glory.

Austin Mayse’s “Wretch Like Me” is a sprawling track that starts out listing a few of his weaknesses before going into a lengthy explanation of his personal philosophy. Dignity, tolerance,

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“Wretch Like Me,” is an exception. It’s loaded with John Prine’s tendencies & phrasing. But it’s good. Real good. “Rattlesnake,” while explicit is dipped for a few moments in Townes van Zandt’s cauldron where “Waitin’ Around To Die” was born. It has a wonderfully chilling trumpet (unexpected) & it smokes. The trumpet returns on “The Last Rose of Summer,” & slowly starts to sound like a possible signature sound for Mr. Mayse.

"The second selection is the self-reflective and revelatory “Wretch Like Me.” Already it should dawn on the listener that this cut is more than effective music and vocal harmonies. Indeed, it is yet another early foreshadowing that this new release is more personal than the previous platter."

https://alancackett.com/austin-mayse-bridges-and-kerosene

With a mix of country and Americana, Austin Mayse writes with a straightforward honesty and it’s hard not to think of fellow Texas truth-tellers Guy Clark, Blaze Foley, Hayes Carll and Rusty Weir.

https://americanahighways.org/2023/01/11/song-premiere-austin-mayse-wretch-like-me/ 

Song Premiere: Austin Mayse “Wretch Like Me”  

Melissa ClarkeSeptember 30, 2020  

Austin Mayse – “Wretch Like Me”  Americana Highways presents this premiere of Austin Mayse’s song “Wretch Like Me” from his forthcoming album Bridges and Kerosene, due to be released on January 27.