Banditos

Banditos 2015 album cover

Banditos is a roots rock band formed in 2010 by buskers Corey Parsons and Stephen Pierce. When invited to take on a regular gig, they invited fellow Cave 9 alumni Mary Beth Richardson, Randy Wade, and Jeffery Salter to join the band. Later bassist Danny Vines came on board. They recorded their first album at The Bomb Shelter with Nashville-based engineer Andrija Tokic.

After years of sharing a house in Crestwood, the group relocated to Nashville, Tennessee before recording their second album, which was released in the summer of 2013. They signed with Chicago-based Bloodshot Records in 2014 after a successful appearance at South by Southwest.

Discography

• Banditos (2012) "Banditos" self-released (reissued 2015 by Bloodshot Records BS-215)
• Banditos (2013) "The Breeze" self-released
• Banditos (2016) "Askin' For Disaster" / Bad Lovers "Still Sober (After All These Beers)" BS-238-1
• Banditos (2016) "Fun All Night" / "I Put a Spell On You" EP Bloodshot Records BS-248
• Banditos (2017) "Visionland" Bloodshot Records BS-253

References

• Colurso, Mary (April 15, 2013) "Birmingham's Banditos to open 2013 Schaeffer Eye Center Crawfish Boil." The Birmingham News
• Sforzini, Hank (May 7, 2013) "12 Alabama Bands You Should Listen To Now." Paste magazine
• Harris, Vincent (January 20, 2016) "Ragged honky-tonkers the Banditos get psychedelic" Charleston City Paper
• Cook, Sarah (March 2016) "[ Banditos band grew out of Birmingham, is now popular nationwide]" Birmingham magazine

External links

• Banditos website