Sci-Fi, Space And Rock And Roll Collide On The Quaker City Night Hawks' 'El Astronauta'

The Quaker City Night Hawks deliver an electrifying 9-track 'El Astronauta' today, May 20, making their debut on Lightning Rod Records/Thirty Tigers.

Over a thick, bluesy slide guitar, "Texas's next great band" (Texas Monthly) transports you to the sweltering lonestar-state heat, a land of oilfields, iron nightmares, and fevered dreams, simultaneously celebrating the pride of home and acknowledging the ominous clouds that hang over it. Equally influenced by ZZ Top and science fiction, the band writes of landscape both familiar and foreign, of a people working to shed their past but still burdened with its repercussions even in the distant future.

The Quaker City Night Hawks -- who have solidified a raucous live show by opening for Chris Stapleton, Leon Bridges and Lucero -- have been far out there, but they're anything but low down as they bring a "refreshing blues-based psychedelic experience" (Vintage Guitar) to the national forefront.

For more "good, honest Southern rock" (WXPN), please visit quakercitynighthawks.com.

'El Astronauta' Tracklist:

1. Good Evening

2. Liberty Bell 7

3. Mockingbird

4. Something To Burn

5. Beat The Machine

6. Medicine Man

7. Duendes

8. The Last Great Audit

9. Sons & Daughters

Tour Dates:

Fri., May 20 / Stubb's Waller Creek / Austin, TX

Sat., May 21 / The Blue Light / Lubbock, TX

Mon., May 23 / Docs Records and Vintage In-Store / Ft. Worth, TX 

Tues., May 24 / Good Records In-Store / Dallas, TX 

Thurs., May 26 / Grimey's Records In-Store / Nashville, TN

Sat., May 28 / Acme / Nahville, TN

Sun., May 29 / 3rd & Lindsley / Nashville, TN

Mon., May 30 / Winner's Bar / Nashville, TN

Mon., May 30 / Mercy Lounge / Nashville, TN 

Tues., May 31 / Exit/In / Nashville, TN

Tues., May 31 / 5 Spot / Nashville, TN 

Fri., June 3 / Lola's Saloon Trailer Park / Ft. Worth, TX 

Sat., June 4 / Lola's Saloon Trailer Park / Ft. Worth, TX

Wed., July 13 / Sam's Burger Joint / San Antonio, TX

Wed., July 20 / Sam's Burger Joint / San Antonio, TX

Wed., July 27 / Sam's Burger Joint / San Antonio, TX

Sat., July 16 / Pemberton Music Festival / Pemberton, BC

Sun., July 24 / Granada Theater / Dallas, TX 

Thurs., Aug. 11 / River Road Ice House / New Braunfels, TX*

Wed., Aug. 20 / White Oak Music Hall / Houston, TX

*Denotes date with Chris Stapleton

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