Jason Boland & the Stragglers
| Jason Boland & the Stragglers | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Stillwater , Oklahoma |
| Genre (s) | Red Dirt , Texas Country |
| founding | 1998 |
| Website | http://www.thestragglers.com/ |
| Founding members | |
| Jason Boland | |
guitar |
Roger Ray |
Guitar, background vocals |
Brad Rice |
| Grant Tracy | |
| Current occupation | |
Vocals, guitar |
Jason Boland |
guitar |
Roger Ray |
Guitar, background vocals |
Brad Rice |
bass |
Grant Tracy |
| Jeremy Watkins | |
| Noah Jeffries (since 2003) | |
Jason Boland & the Stragglers is an American country band on the Red Dirt scene.
Band history
Jason Boland founded the band Jason Boland & the Stragglers in 1998 in Stillwater , Oklahoma . In addition to Boland as the front man, guitarists Roger Ray and Brad Rice, as well as bassist Grant Tracy, were there from the start. They soon became an integral part of the Red Dirt scene and released their debut album Pearl Snaps, produced by Lloyd Maines and Adam Odor , a year after they were founded . After releasing his second studio album, Truckstop Diaries, in 2001, which included the likes of Mike McClure , Bob Childers , Stoney LaRue and Randy Crouch , Boland moved to Austin , Texas and later to New Braunfels in 2002 . A year before the release of a third studio album in the summer of 2004, Noah Jeffries, a banjo and fiddle player , also joined the band.
Gradually, the albums also became more commercially successful in the middle of the last decade. With Somewhere in the Middle , released in 2004 , the band reached the genre charts for the first time, which they achieved again in 2006 with The Bourbon Legend - almost exactly one year after Jason Boland had been on drug therapy for 28 days because of his alcoholism . For several years now, the group has been able to place itself on the Billboard 200 on a regular basis . She succeeded in doing this for the first time with Comal County Blue , published in 2008 . On this one could win country singers like Robert Earl Keen , Bob Childers or Cody Canada for duets. These successes could be confirmed by the new chart placements of the albums Rancho Alto and High in the Rockies: A Live Album , which was recorded at concerts in January 2010.
Discography
Studio albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 US
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Country
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| 2004 | Somewhere in the Middle | - |
Country65 (1 week) Country |
First published: September 21, 2004
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| 2006 | The Bourbon Legend | - |
Country67 (1 week) Country |
First published: October 31, 2006
|
| 2008 | Comal County Blue |
US160 (1 week) US |
Country30 (6 weeks) Country |
First published: August 26, 2008
|
| 2011 | Rancho Alto |
US130 (1 week) US |
Country26 (2 weeks) Country |
First published: October 4, 2011
|
| 2013 | Dark & Dirty Mile |
US89 (1 week) US |
Country25 (4 weeks) Country |
First published: May 14, 2013
|
| 2015 | Squelch |
US136 (1 week) US |
Country11 (2 weeks) Country |
First published: October 16, 2015
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More studio albums
- 1999: Pearl Snaps
- 2001: Truckstop Diaries
- 2018: Hard Times Are Relative
Live albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
US
|
Country
|
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| 2010 | High in the Rockies: A Live Album |
US136 (1 week) US |
Country27 (8 weeks) Country |
First published: April 20, 2010
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More live albums
- 2002: Live and Lit at Billy Bob's Texas
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Web links
- Official website (English)
- Jason Boland or Jason Boland & the Stragglers on Allmusic (English)