Earnesty is in, folks, and these songwriters have got it. Horsetail trots along in a long Texas legacy of landscape-inspired poetic pondering, spiced with a bit of prickly humor and illuminated by folk-blending instrumentation. Their contemporary take is sweet and soothing like honey for the ears. Those four horsemen will share a stage with multi-instrumentalist scene staple Dylan Hill and kid_Wy, the indie-pop songwriting project of Big Wy’s Brass Band’s Wyatt Corder, whose whimsy-embracing melodies turn honest storytelling into sparkly sing-alongs. – Caroline Drew
