Otis Shanty

Performers

• Otis Shanty
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  Jonny Tex

  Jonny Tex is a Boston band that sounds like it's from somewhere else. Once a messy country cover act kicked off mid-residency, they’ve reemerged with tight songs, dry humor, and a steadier hand on the wheel. Their music blends earnest absurdism with slacker pop precision and Western undertones, delivered with blunt conviction, more sermon than confession.

  In less than a year, Jonny Tex has opened for Guerrilla Toss, Godcaster, French Cassettes, and The Thing, bringing disciplined yet high-energy sets to rooms like Crystal Ballroom and Brighton Music Hall. Now signed to Austin label Happen Twice, the band is building toward a debut EP out this spring.

  Tex, a former youth pastor in training, writes as someone who mistakes confidence for clarity. The songs are threaded with dry humor and small self-exposures, where Southern gothic imagery meets East Coast restraint. They stay locked in even as the narrator begins to wobble. It’s art rock that sounds certain while quietly questioning itself.

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  Clifford