Austin Meade & Lakeview: That Ain't Country Tour

21+ / www.joesbar.comTattooed, rural, and blue-collar country tandem Lakeview (Jesse Denaro and Luke Healy) have an unwavering faith in God, a belief in family and community, and a fanbase on social media that has grown rapidly in the past 12 months. Combine that with metal-core roots distilled into country hits like Home Team and See Me in A Suit by a love of early 2000s pop and rock-aimed country, plus contemporary, radio-ready sound. These elements define their early, fast-rising success.The band has grown from playing in Chinese restaurants, church basements, and VFW halls to larger arenas because theyre comfortable in the rock lane and as a country duo, bringing traditional country fans together with non-traditional country fans. Like their fans, theyre hard-working heroes who wear Wranglers, boots, and cowboy hats or love Metallica shirts, black skinny jeans, and face tattoos. By the nights end, all our fans realize theyre all the same at the core, says the band.Thanks to his metal- and classic-rock loving dad, Meade got to see bands like JudasPriest and worshipped Whitesnake. In junior high he related to the intense emo-rock of Paramore and Fall Out Boy, and the power of songwriters like John Mayer. Yet, thanks to plainspoken but deep heartland songwriters like Tom Petty, and cutting his teeth touring in the Texas and Oklahoma Red Dirt scene, Meades music overflows with wide-open soulfulness. He was a drummer for years, even teaching to pay the bills, but Meade found his true voice when he began playing guitar as a teen in hispastor-fathers church. Those experiences lend both a gravitas and rebelliousness toMeades songs and self. Now the frontman of his own band slinging guitar licks withexpert precision, his music rolled out with two releases in 2014, his first EP Long Ways To Go followed by his first full-length album Chief Of The Sinners. His next EP Heartbreak Coming came in 2016 with a couple of singles to announce hiscommencement on the Texas Music Chart, followed by his second full-length albumWaves in 2019. In 2021, Meade introduced his third LP Black Sheep including the hit tracks Happier Alone, Cave In,Dopamine Drop, and Deja Vu. Meade released his fourth LP Abstract Art Of An Unstable Mind fall of 2022, further showcasing his ability to seamlessly blend genres into a groovy yet piercingly fresh sound of rock n roll. Now comes for a new era ushering in Meades latest singles Blackout, with another separate release with Danny Worsnop of Asking Alexandria featured, and the latest of hard-punching singles, Stoner Fantasy.

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