The Randy Rogers Band at the Rust Belt -- July 14.
Friday, July 14, p.m.
The Rust Belt, 533 12th Avenue, East Moline IL
Their most recent recording Homecoming lauded by Saving Country Music as a work "with striking appeal in every track, never letting you down, and exemplifying everything that Texas country is supposed to be," the gifted musicians of the Randy Rogers band headline a July 14 concert at East Moline venue The Rust Belt, American Songwriter adding that the 2022 album "holds tight to the spirit of the band's early work, but also shines a light on where they've been and how far they've come."
Composed of Randy Rogers (lead vocals), Geoffrey Hill (guitar), Jon Richardson (bass guitar), Brady Black (fiddle), Les Lawless (drums), and Todd Stewart (guitar, fiddle, mandolin, keyboards), the Randy Rogers Band has thus far recorded four live albums and 11 studio albums, five of the latter landing in the top five of Billboard's U.S. Country charts. Rogers himself was born in Cleburne, Texas, and at the age of six, he learned to play the piano from his grandmother, and later started playing the guitar. The Randy Rogers Band recorded its debut album Live at Cheatham Street Warehouse, released in 2000, at a music hall of the same name in San Marcos, Texas. By 2002, the band was signed to the independent Downtime record label, on which they released Like It Used to Be. Around this time, the band also began performing outside of San Marcos, primarily at Nutty Brown Cafe and Amphitheatre in nearby Dripping Springs, Texas. Two years later, the album Rollercoaster was released, producing two entries on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts in early 2005. Rogers also co-wrote "Somebody Take Me Home," a song recorded by Kenny Chesney for his 2005 album The Road and the Radio.
Just a Matter of Time, the group's first major-label album, was released on Mercury Nashville Records in 2006, and two years later, the Randy Rogers Band released their self-titled album on the same label, its singles including the Billboard hit "In My Arms Instead." The band's fifth album, Burning the Day, was released in August of 2010 on MCA Nashville, the recording's first single "Too Late for Goodbye" peaking at number 47 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. With its release in late 2012, "One More Sad Song" became the musicians' first Billboard Top 40 hit, and became the first single from their sixth album Trouble. Since then, the Randy Rogers Band has enjoyed two top-three smashes on the U.S. Indie chart (Hold My Beer, Vol. 1 and Nothing Shines Like Neon) as well as three additional full-length albums, last year's Homecoming lauded by The O'Colly as a recording that "brings a lot of their past music full circle and revisits personal topics and memories for the group."
The Randy Rogers Band brings their national tour to East Moline on July 14, admission to the p.m., concert starts at $34.75, and more information and tickets are available by visiting TheRustBeltQC.com.
