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Austin, Texas’ Brothers and Sisters bring to mind a lot of great bands: Crosby, Stills & Nash, Whiskeytown, Beachwood Sparks, and even a little bit of the Grateful Dead. This country-rock collective make some seriously good music. The band tears a page from the alt country twang of Gram Parsons and the Band, all while radiating sunshine pop and L.A. hooks.

Their music marries sunny pop music with a laid back alt-country vibe on their release titled “Brothers And Sisters.” “One Night” sounds like a Carly Simon & James Taylor jam with more twang and less sexual tension: “Come on baby, gimme one night. I know it’s crazy but it just feels so right.” The pedal steeliness of “Los Angeles” turns anthemic as the whole family gets on the wagon and screams “L.A.!” over a burning guitar solo.

The Brothers and Sisters’ music is perfect for films and TV shows and TV ads that call for music that sounds like it came from the past but with a more modern touch & flare to it.

Band Talk

Brothers and Sisters Group Portrait
Marie Butcher tambourine
vocals
Courtney Chavanell tambourine
vocals
Lily Courtney autoharp
tambourine
vocals
Will Courtney guitar
vocals
Ray Jackson pedal steel
Greg McArthur drum
David Morgan bass
James Olsen keyboard
guitar
vocals
Daniel Wilcox lead guitar
Conrad Keely wurlitzer
fiddle
lead thespian

Brothers and Sisters is a band out of time. Led by real-life siblings Will and Lily Courtney, their music entirely lacks the calculated cool of contemporary indie rock and seems totally oblivious to the cynical machinations of the music business. The siblings are the children of Ragan Courtney and Cynthia Clawson, respectively a Baptist preacher and a Grammy-winning independent gospel artist dubbed “The Christian Barbra Streisand,” both for her voice and for her support of the Christian gay community. When he was six, the Courtney parents took young Will to a Beach Boys concert, and it was over—he decided to become a musician. As a kid, he sang in Houston’s Post Oak Boy’s Choir and before long was recording songs for children’s’ records and commercials. When he was old enough to get out of Houston, Will headed to L.A.—home of his idols the Beach Boys, Love, and the Flying Burrito Brothers.

Today, Brothers and Sisters has grown into a ten member band, performing all over the country. Brothers and Sisters bask in the same golden sunshine as the Mamas and The Papas and the Byrds, but the Austin-based collective also mines that era’s darker side, combining sugar-sweet harmonies with foreboding, gloomy lyrics.

The band has plans to follow up its debut with a record incorporating lessons learned from their ever-evolving live shows. Following that, they’ll head out for their first-ever U.S. tour, piling in a van for several months and lapping the country twice, an epic, roving family affair.

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