What starts as a scrappy ten seconds of scuffling and static emerges as a summer anthem from Oklahoma band Beau Jennings and the Tigers. Out June 9 from Oklahoma-based record label Black Mesa Records, the new single "People in This Town" follows the Tigers' 2022 full-length "Heavy Light." That record drew critical parallels to Tom Petty and the Wallflowers and Bruce Springsteen, and live, the band has shared billings with Dwight Yoakam, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Heartless Bastards and John Moreland.
In the new song, Jennings imagines the patrons of a bar on the outskirts—inspired by a real blink-and-you'll-miss-it building in his hometown of Norman, Oklahoma. Having barely noticed it for much of his life, a recent drive nearby prompted Jennings to conjure the figures who might be congregating there.
Beau Jennings is a musician, filmmaker, and former architect currently based in Oklahoma. Originally the front man and songwriter for the indie-rock/Americana band Cheyenne, he toured the U.S. while calling both Brooklyn and Austin home.
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