DUNCAN —
Although Brad Eason spent a few years in Nashville, it wasn’t until he returned home that he found a way to break into the music scene.
Now his band Shady 5 Eighty is preparing for one of their biggest performances at the PRCA Ram Prairie Circuit Final Rodeo Saturday night at the Stephens County Fair & Expo Center.
They are opening for No Justice and are slated to take the stage at 9:30-10 p.m.
Growing up splitting time between Velma and Davis, Eason now resides once again in Velma and is the lead singer of the up and coming Red Dirt band.
Taking their name from the area code where three of the four band members reside, the band has already garnered a loyal following.
“We got together about this time last year and a lot has happened,” Eason said. “It’s just taken off.”
Band members also include JJ Russell of Duncan on drums, Kendal Rochell of Empire on bass and Connor Hollis of Sulpher on lead guitar. From performing small bars in Dallas and McKinney, Texas, they have slowly spread out across the Texoma area and further into Oklahoma.
The guys also recently released their first album “Gravel Road,” on which Eason and Russell wrote every song.
“I’m more country and JJ is more rock, so we play on the line well and the album is more Americana, real Red Dirt,” Eason said. “You have to write about what you know and we write about home.”
What most of the guys know is rural living, football and oil fields and Eason said just about every song is about someone or a situation from “around here.” One of the band’s favorite songs from their record is “Cry Love,” the lamenting of a man who falls in and out of love with almost every girl he meets.
They have the Red Dirt sound with their own spin of uniqueness that is known of bands in the genre with influences from Cross Canadian Ragweed and of course, No Justice.
“We’re big No Justice fans and we’ve opened for them before,” Eason said. “They’re the coolest.”
The opportunity to open for them once more, and at a big time rodeo no less, is something Eason said they are looking forward to. Rodeo crowds are part of what they grew up around and they’re set for a party.
“It will be awesome because the rodeo is a big deal, it’s a big deal for it to be in Duncan and we’re glad to be a part of it,” he said. “Come listen because it’s going to be a blast.”
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Shady 5 Eighty will open for No Justice after the Saturday night PRCA Rodeo at the Stephens County Fair & Expo Center. Rebeka Rutledge/The Duncan Banner
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