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    Rock Band With a Fiddle

    Reckless Kelly frontman Willy Braun digs the camaraderie in Texas music

    Arden Ward
    Sep 27, 2013 | 8:51 am
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    Reckless Kelly's eighth album, Long Night Moon, was released September 3.
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    Reckless Kelly may be known as a Texas band, but these musical veterans have roots far and wide. Led by brothers Willy (lead singer) and Cody Braun, Reckless Kelly was first established in Bend, Oregon.

     

     The band relocated to Austin in 1996, where its live shows made a legend out of Lucy's Retired Surfer Bar on Monday nights. Playing a brand of roots rock that leans heavy to the rock side of the equation, the band is a stalwart — an inspirational success story — of the modern Texas music movement.

     
     

      "We're basically just a rock band with a fiddle, so people can just call us whatever they want as long as they're still coming to the shows."

     

     

    In early September, Reckless Kelly released its eighth studio album, Long Night Moon. The follow-up to 2011's Grammy-nominated Good Luck & True Love, Long Night Moon is a tight, well-constructed album that takes the band to new heights with a cohesive sound and thematic subject matter.

     

    "We're on the road a lot," says frontman Willy Braun, speaking of the latest album's travel theme. Between traveling to gigs and spending time in Idaho and Austin, Braun noticed most of the songs he was writing for the new album talked about traveling and going back home.

     

    "I decided to go with it ... steering most of the songs in that direction," he says.

     

    The album's first single, "The Last Goodbye," is an easy-listen tune with a rock-and-roll backbone and simple melody. "The single's doing well," Braun says, "climbing up the old Texas charts." In addition to the single, there are a few hidden gems on the album that Braun thinks fans — new and old — will appreciate.

     

    "We’ve got a couple of things on there that we haven’t really done before, arrangement-wise. There are three songs at the end that run into each other as a trilogy," he says. "We worked on that for a while, and that’s something I’d thought about and wanted to do for a long time. It was really cool to see that all come together."

     

    In support of the new release, Reckless Kelly is currently touring nationwide (with a few select stops in Texas). "We’ve been going outside of Texas for a while — almost our entire career," Braun says. "We probably spend more time outside of Texas than we do inside."

     
     

      "We probably spend more time outside of Texas than we do inside."

     
     

    The band has no challenge filling seats outside of Texas, thanks to years of touring both coasts and camaraderie among the Texas music scene. "All of the bands [from Texas] that go out there are talking about the other bands," he says.

     

    "There’re a lot of people helping each other out out there. They’re spreading the word, and I think that’s one of the cool things about the scene," he says. "[Other bands will] give you shout outs and talk about you and turn people on to your music."

     

    Although Reckless Kelly is undoubtedly part of the Texas music scene, Braun and his bandmates don't subscribe to a "Texas country" label — and they never have. "We always just call it roots rock or country rock or alternative country," Braun says.

     

    Texas country, he explains, gets looped a little too tightly to country music for Reckless Kelly's sound. "We’re basically just a rock band with a fiddle, so people can just call us whatever they want as long as they’re still coming to the shows."

     

    For this "rock band with a fiddle," there aren't specific influences that Braun draws on for inspiration. "You always get influenced by what’s around you," he says. "But you kind of want to take those as broad inspirations, you know influences, instead of trying to, oh, copy anything — for lack of a better word."

     

    "I get a lot of my ideas out of books and looking around, seeing what’s going on around you," he says. "Pretty much anything can be written about. It’s just finding the right way to say it."

     
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    Comedy News

    Comedy chain Punch Line to open at Toyota Music Factory in Irving

    Teresa Gubbins
    Jul 14, 2025 | 5:46 pm
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    A renowned comedy club is coming to Dallas-Fort Worth: Punch Line, a nationwide club chain founded in San Francisco, will open a DFW location at Toyota Music Factory in Irving, at 310 W. Las Colinas Blvd. #130, taking over a prominent storefront that was previously home to a series of Brazilian steakhouses, next door to the TMF box office.

    According to a representative, the venue will open in the fall.

    This will be a fifth location of Punch Line, joining the original in San Francisco, along with Philadelphia, Sacramento, and Houston, which opened in 2024. The Dallas opening is part of a partnership with Live Nation Entertainment.

    Punch Line Comedy Club opened in San Francisco in 1978 and over the years has helped launch the careers of comedy legends such as Robin Williams, Dana Carvey, Ellen DeGeneres, and Drew Carey.

    "For 40-plus years, Punch Line has been home to comedy’s heavyweights — and now we're bringing that knockout energy to DFW, from top-tier national headliners to the rising stars right here in Texas," the club promises.

    The Dallas venue will feature comedy’s biggest names, open mic nights and showcases for DFW talent, a front-row seat to the next big thing in stand-up, plus the "intimate, classic Punch Line vibe."

    The chain offers food and beverage including fancy cocktails like prickly pear margaritas and a Tito's espresso martini. There’s a two-beverage minimum per person.

    The food menu is heavy on shareables like nachos, loaded fries, spinach-artichoke dip, Bavarian pretzel, and flatbreads such as the one with basil pesto, mozzarella, feta, and balsamic glaze.

    Dallas has always had a healthy comedy club scene, with stalwarts like the Improv; homegrown favorites like the Dallas Comedy House in Deep Ellum and TK's in Plano; and newcomers like Mic Drop Comedy in Plano.

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