Billy Bob Thornton’s Band The Boxmasters Rocks!!

Many know of Billy Bob Thornton’s work as a movie and television star.

Many do not know that he is also a singer/songwriter/musician too and has been for decades.

He has released solo albums and for almost 20 years, has had a band called The Boxmasters.

Most of the albums include mostly just him and J.D. Andrew doing all the instrumentation.

However, their latest album, called Love & Hate In Desperate Places, includes the whole band, which is Billy (AKA Bud) on vocals, J.D. on guitar and keyboards, Kirk McKim on guitar, Raymond Hardy on bass, and Nick Davidson drums.

The Boxmasters, in a nutshell, kind of sound like a 1960s garage rock/pop band, but also have some elements of punk rock, outlaw country, and some Beatles/Beach Boys/Pink Floyd melodies.

They have a lot of albums, and I must say they are very good.  Album favorites of mine include Boxmasters ’66, Boxmasters ’69, Light Rays, Christmas In California, and Help…I’m Alive.  But really all of them are very good.

Billy/Bud is a very good singer (think Tom Petty) and he and the whole band are very good songwriters and musicians.

Also, they are great live too.

I saw them in Mt. Vernon, KY at a very nice venue called the New Barn Theatre, which is part of the Renfro Valley Entertainment Center.

The band played for about 90 minutes, and really rocked the place.

Billy/Bud told some stories along with singing all of these great songs.

He even requested to the audience that they move as close as they could to the stage near the end of the set, which was very cool!!  By doing this I was able to get all the way to the front and was able to get a fist bump from Billy/Bud and he wanted to take a selfie with me!!  He did this with a lot of the fans and also signed stuff for them too.  Awesome stuff!!!!

All of the songs were originals, except for the closing song, which was a song by The Kinks (setlist and pics below).

The band and audience had a good time.

Another great concert in the books for me and more to come in the future.

Thanks to The Boxmasters for a fun night!!

And please, do yourself a favor and seek out their music and see a show.

Also, their opening band, Fran Moran & The Nervous Wrecks, were quite good too.

Keep on rocking!!