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Dave Insley's Careless Smokers perform every Saturday at the White Horse Saloon in Austin Texas, from 8 til 10pm


About West Texas Wine:
"One of the Southwest's most original and authentic Country voices."
Dave's third album "West Texas Wine," recorded in Austin, Texas, and featuring Dave's road band, "The Careless Smokers," is an upbeat collection of new originals and classic-but-obscure covers, all staples of the Smokers‘ live set. From the opening rock rhythms of "Beatin' Ya Down," through the pedal steel-drenched closer, Conway Twitty's "Don't Take It Away," Dave touches upon all of the varieties of themes and sounds which have earned him fans and praise on his previous outings. The title track "West Texas Wine" sets historical anecdote, ghost story and personal experience to a spaghetti western soundtrack, while piano and acoustic guitar warm "Geneva's Gonna Leave Ya," a tender homage to Dave's mom, and growing up on a farm. Party-time covers of Johnny Darrell’s “Come See What’s Left Of Your Man” and Fuzzy Owens’ “Ol What’s Her Name” fit alongside Insley’s ultra-country “Everything’s Broken Again” and the truck driving ballad “Exit 93.” Hundreds of shows and years together on the road have honed Insley and his Smokers’, and this lively, unique blend of Honky-Tonk, Tex-Mex and Arizona Hillbilly music is pure gold, Dave's best album yet.

About Dave Insley:
Insley spent his childhood near the tiny farm town of Chapman, Kansas, until Dave's family relocated to Arizona, when he was twelve.

During his high school and college years, Insley played in country and rock bands, and in 1983 his cowpunk group Chaingang debuted in Tempe, Arizona. Later, he moved to Flagstaff and ran a tongue-in-cheek folk-rock outfit called Politics or Pontiacs.

Insley’s next project was the Nitpickers, a Tempe-based bluegrass band, followed by the Trophy Husbands, who released two country records and toured the US. Insley released his solo debut, Call Me Lonesome in 2005, and was named by the Arizona Republic newspaper as "Arizona’s Best Songwriter." The CD made Third Coast Music's Top 10 Debuts of 2005.

Insley relocated to Austin a decade ago and released Here With You Tonight, debuting at Number One on the FAR chart and garnering praise from former Downbeat editor and Village Voice contributor Nat Hentoff, who wrote that Insley “immediately held my attention not by showboating, but through naturally flowing rhythms, and stories of everyday life and loss, told in a warm, unhurried and sometimes wry voice of experience.” In 2008, Insley released his grittiest album, West Texas Wine, which Good Sound called “Zen Country,” crediting Insley with “leaving melodramatic self-indulgence out of the picture.”

In the eight years since West Texas Wine Insley has done a lot of livin,' and survived to tell his tale; Just The Way That I Am is a chronicle of that journey, told with authority and maturity, but not without whimsy and humor.

Dave has 4 children and still lives in Austin. He performs every Saturday night, from 8 til 10pm, at the White Horse Saloon.