THE THIEVING BIRDSThieving Birds are a Texas Music band of five Fort Worth friends who combine rock, country, roots and blues with thoughtful lyrics. What you hear is what you get.

SIMON FLORYBorn in rural Indiana shortly after his family moved “west” from southern Virginia to start a livestock feed store, Simon Flory’s music is suffused with the elements of his childhood – days spent in the fields, church sings, gravel roads, and genuine mule drawn molasses.It takes a perceptive ear to translate these icons of a mythical “Americana” into the daily textures of real human lives, and Flory does it with the sincerity of early country music. His compositions are as much short-story sketches as they are songs, each populated – like the locales that inspire them – with those among us who ha