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CareFest 2021 at Happy Wife Happy Life Venue in Albany, Texas

Roger Creager, Stoney LaRue, Giovannie and the Hired Guns, Dylan Wheeler, Shea Abshier and The Night Howlers, 360 Band, Cole Barnhill, Randy Brown, Jeff Martin
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CareFest 2021 at Happy Wife Happy Life Venue in Albany, Texas

CareFest 2021 at Happy Wife Happy Life Venue in Albany, Texas

DATE:
Saturday, August 28, 2021
TIME:
Doors | 1:00 PM
Showtime 2:00 PM
LOCATION:
Happy Wife Happy Life Venue
999 FM 1084
Albany, Texas 76430
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CareFest 2021

August 28th, 2021

Sponsored by ResourceCare, 95.1 The Wolf, and Happy Wife Happy Life Venue - A Fundraiser with 100% profits going towards ResourceCare Outreach Programs

Gates Open at 1:00 PM / Close at 1:30 am (RAIN OR SHINE)

BYOB - NO GLASS!

Line Up:

  • 2:00 pm - Jeff Martin
  • 3:00 pm - Cole Barnhill
  • 4:00 pm - 360 Band
  • 5:00 pm - Randy Brown
  • 6:00 pm - Shea Abshier and the Nighthowlers
  • 7:00 pm - Dylan Wheeler
  • 8:00 pm - Giovannie and the Hired Guns
  • 9:30 pm - Stoney LaRue
  • 11:00 pm - Roger Creager

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  • VIP Tickets - Includes Front Row Access, Meet and Greet with the bands, access to Festival Lounge and the VIP Tent, homemade fajita buffet, Free Parking, and Front Row and Indoor Restrooms
  • Preferred Tickets - Includes Front Row Access, VIP Tent and A/C Restrooms
  • General Admission
  • Parking Pass
  • Cooler Pass
  • Canopy Space
Price: $10.00 - $250.00
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ROGER CREAGER
For more than a decade, Roger Creager built a reputation on his distinctive brand of hard-core, rabble-rousing Texas Country music, on his rich, full-bodied voice that can carry a tune for miles, and on his exceptional ability to work thousands of Texans into a rabid frenzy with his voice and guitar, in the great concert tradition of Jerry Jeff Walker and Robert Earl Keen. Along the way, he's been writing some mighty fine instant classics about family heirlooms, fields of bluebonnets, and late night trips to Mexico. Four albums, hundreds of thousands of road miles, and an ever-expanding fan base later, Here It Is has Roger Creager laying his cards on the table with thirteen songs that are arguably his best batch yet.

"It's been five years since I’ve put out anything new," Roger says. "So it's five years of evolving and maybe even maturing, although it's still me." Actually, it's more of him than ever. For the first time, he's written or co-written every song on the album.

The first single, "I'm From the Beer Joint" plays to Creager's honky-tonk wildcat image informed by his live album, as he declares his preference for independent drinking establishments. "It's not going to change any lives, but it sure is fun," Creager laughs about the sing-along, before turning serious. "But who wants to listen to a whole album of that?" He's aiming for something higher.

"I hope there's a song here that penetrates your soul, too," he says, leaning forward. "There's a few that may do just that. I aimed with a shotgun. I really did try to mix it up. There's love songs [Missing You], drinking songs [the aforementioned "Beer Joint"], up-tempo dancing songs [I Love Being Lonesome], groovy little tunes [Tangle Me in You], one about a man who's screwed up and he's driving like hell through the middle of the night to get home [Driving Home]. 'I Loved You When' is my best story song yet. It doesn't even tell the whole story. It doesn't have to. It gives you just enough to know there's a history there. It’s all you need to know."

The two catalysts behind the album were Lloyd Maines, the go-to producer who produced Creager's first albums, and Radney Foster, the Texas kid from Del Rio, whose songs and productions have established him as one of country music's most innovative and edgy operators. Radney teamed up with Justin Tocket, a talented producer himself, to co-produce this project. But Roger himself is the biggest catalyst of all.

The Corpus Christi native was raised on songs like Guy Clark's "Desperadoes Waiting For A Train" and Gary P. Nunn's "You Ask Me What I Like About Texas" and under the influence of Jerry Jeff Walker, Lyle Lovett, Robert Earl Keen, and Jimmy Buffett, along with Willie, Waylon, Cash, Merle, and even Sinatra.

He graduated from college and spent two years in Houston working a 8-5 gig. He finally listened to his heart and moved back to College Station to pursue a life in music. Working without a paycheck was liberating. "I'd always been a slacker," Roger admits, "and I could easily see myself failing in music because I wasn't trying hard enough. So I promised myself that would be one excuse I'd never use. I just got out there and busted my hump."

In 1998, he released Having Fun, then blew open the doors two years later with I Got the Guns. The title track, a striking piece about his granddad and his family, became a staple on more than 200 radio stations programming Texas Country Music. Long Way To Mexico and Live Across Texas grew his audience beyond state lines.

Here It Is speaks to those broadening horizons. "I was in 14 countries last year," Roger says. "I want to take our music to a wider audience without compromising the integrity of the music. I'm taking some of who I am to where I'm going."

"I've always tried to make records where every song is different so I can listen to them over and over again instead of forty five minutes of essentially the same song," he says.