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Riding High
Riding High

he road to stardom and glory is never an easy one but nothing in life worth having is ever easy and
Ta living testament to this are American rockers Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown, who are very
much looking to achieve their rock and roll dreams the hard way. A significant part of that has been the
countless hours, days, weeks and months on the road, travelling from show to show to spread their gospel
but, as drummer Caleb Crosby shares with Black Velvet, every single mile has, and will be, worth it.

here is much for Caleb Crosby and his lyric ‘open your eyes, 'cause it's all about the road is not an easy thing, it's not as glamorous
Tbandmates, Tyler Bryant, Graham ride, all about the ride, baby’. Caleb and his as people sometimes think, so for us, it's the
Whitford and Noah Denney, and the band to be bandmates have definitely been on a ride since reminder, it's all about the positivity and being
happy about. Opening slots with rock titans the band’s inception in 2009, and especially diligent and just rocking on!"
AC/DC and Guns N' Roses in recent years since 'Truth And Lies' was unleashed into the "I just hope the ride keeps us going," he
have opened thousands and thousands of new world in June. tells us. "We love coming over to the UK and
eyes to their craft and their third studio album, "Man, it's been wild", Caleb says. "It feels touring here and we already have plans to
2019's 'Truth And Lies', is by far their best yet, like it's been three years since it was released come back soon. Obviously, you want to see
taking elements of those aforementioned leg- but it's not even been six months yet. We put the size of the venues grow and you want to
ends, a healthy hint of Tom Petty And The the record out and then toured America with see more people come to hear the music and
Heartbreakers and mixed in with the unique, The Temperance Movement and that was a those audiences have been growing and that
not quite country, not quite blues, not quite clas- great tour. We did another tour right after that is obviously the hope and that is all we are
sic rock but all three at the same time charac- with Stone Temple Pilots and Rival Sons and going to continue to do. We're just going to
teristics of Tyler Bryant And The Shakedown, we've just been spreading the rock ‘n’ roll word keep on doing what we do, we don't get caught
spearheaded by their frontman's incredible gui- around the States and then we've been lucky up in numbers or charts or this and that and the
tar skills, 'Truth And Lies' has been, without enough to come over here to the UK and Eu- other, we just do what we do because we love
doubt, one of the highlights of 2019. It's made rope as well. We did a few shows with Guns N' it.”
quite a difference to the band’s live shows. For Roses before and it's been great to come back
those that would have seen them for the first so yeah, it's been a really wild ride, but, for us, hape I'm In' is a song in which Tyler
time in stadiums across the UK when they sup- it's been really good to finally be able to play 'Scries on numerous occasions ‘don't
ported AC/DC and Guns N' Roses, this is not these new songs live because that is how we judge me by the shape I'm in’ and so we quiz
the same band you saw then. The new material wrote them and that's how we recorded them, the drummer about his and the band’s current
is heavier, their live shows are more confident, live, so to be able to finally show the people status.
more action-packed and increasingly unmiss- these songs live has been a great experience “I love that we are growing and continuing
able and things only look even brighter the fur- and, honestly for us, we've learned how to play to see places which we have never seen before
ther down their rock and roll road they race. them in different ways and the songs continue and meet people we haven't met; it's great. The
to evolve as time goes on and that is cool for current state the band is in is great, we're con-
mong the many highlights of the album us. 'Ride' is one of those songs, that song for stantly evolving, the songs we are writing are
Ais the slow-burning, yet insanely addic- instance is a reminder to just keep riding and getting better. Personally, me and Tyler have
tive 'Ride', a track which, at its heart, boasts the keep doing our thing because being out on the just got married, not to each other, although we

TYLER BRYANT & THE SHAKEDOWN