The Band of Heathens served up a relaxed, jam session-inspired take on Jerry Jeff Walker's 1975 cut "Jaded Lover" at Colorado's MusicFest at Steamboat. The performance fit right into the spirit of the event, according to the band, and they're premiering footage of the take exclusively for readers of The Boot.

"It's just fun today, doing the Next Waltz's Steamboat Edition up in the seventh floor penthouse of the hotel overlooking the mountain," says the group's Ed Jurdi. "So the good times were flowing, which is right in the spirit of the music we play today."

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Texas power-country group The Panhandlers announced the release of their self-titled debut and first single “No Handle.” The Panhandlers will be released independently via artist-driven label The Next Waltz on March 6. The music video for “No Handle” can be viewed below.

The Panhandlers are a fresh group of down-to-earth, no frills, country guys from West Texas, aiming to make music that resonates with small town, everyday people. Initially the project was going to be just some guys wanting to have some fun playing cover jams, grew into a powerhouse of Texas country with Cleto Cordero, William Clark Green, and John Baumann joining Josh Abbott.

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The only thing better than a badass Texas music songwriter from the Panhandle is four of them combining their powers in a country music supergroup. That’s what you have with The Pandlandlers, which sees William Clark Green, Josh Abbott, John Baumann, and Cleto Cordero of Flatland Cavalry coming together to form one of the most buzzed about supergroups since The Flatlanders held forth from Lubbock in the early 70’s.

First hinted at in mid October, we now have all the details of what can be expected from this collaboration, including their first single “No Handle,” which is the first taste of the self-titled album that will be released on March 6th via Bruce Robison’s The Next Waltz project. Robison also produced the effort, which just like all of his Next Waltz projects, is recorded live and to tape in his analog studio outside of Lockhart, TX.

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The Panhandlers, a long-awaited collaboration between Texas country artists Josh Abbott, Cleto Cordero, William Clark Green and John Baumann, bring a vocal-swapping, steel guitar-accompanied sound with their debut single, "No Handle." Press play above to listen.

The song teases the newly formed quartet's self-titled debut album, out March 6 on Bruce Robison's The Next Waltz imprint. The project is available for pre-order now.

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The Panhandlers’ self-titled debut album will be released March 6th. Produced by Bruce Robison, it’s a collection of songs about life in their corner of the world and aims to introduce the foursome to a broader audience outside of the Texas-Oklahoma circuit. Abbott, who leads the Josh Abbott Band, and the solo artist Green are arguably the most well-known outside of Texas; Cordero fronts the rising band Flatland Cavalry (who opened for Luke Combs last month in San Antonio), and Baumann released his last album Proving Grounds in 2017.

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The Pandhandlers are officially here and they’re BRINGING it.

Comprised of Josh Abbott, William Clark Green, Flatland Cavalry’s Cleto Cordero, and John Baumann, the new Texas supergroup have officially released their first single, titled “No Handle.”

“The album feels like a story many people have lived or heard,” says Josh Abbott of the new project. “It’s an honest rural reflection of life, voiced here from the Panhandle and West Texas, but not limited to those areas. Anyone from small town America can relate to the balance of blessings and hardships that life offers. People will love this album because it’s real.”

The group’s self-titled, debut album was recorded to two-inch tape with all the musicians playing together in the same room and will be released on March 6th via The Next Waltz, Bruce Robison’s record label.

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Man, there’s nothing better to get your country music pants going crazy like a good ol’ supergroup, and it appears we got a new one that’s formed right under our noses. Called The Panhandlers, it’s not in reference to the vagrants your local city council is always fighting over what to do with, it pertains to that flat-ass piece of land in West Texas that sticks up like a chimney pipe on the map, and happens to be a proving ground for some of the best songwriters country music can boast.

Right now we’re pretty light on information about what the hell this is all about. We’re in that phase where they’re screwing with us by dropping little hints on social media to get us all frothy with anticipation. And like a bunch of suckers, we’re falling for it. But we do know who’s involved, and we know there’s likely an album tied to it due in 2020, and that Bruce Robison’s “The Next Waltz” project is also involved, which has been ramping up operations lately.

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