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Word is spreading that Cowboy Mouth
is an energy-packed band
By John Salerno
THE BATTALION
“We are all there for the same thing, and that’s
90 minutes of pure enjoyment.”
So said John Thomas Griffith, the lead guitarist
for Cowboy Mouth, about the band’s and the audi
ence’s relationship during its live shows. Cowboy
Mouth is a band that puts special emphasis on live
concerts, relying on the raw energy of the per
formance to penetrate its audience.
“When people see us enjoying that 90 minutes,
I think it rubs off on the audience, and I think they
get it,” Griffith said. “They see the pure pleasure
and the joy in our faces, so they go, ‘Wow, these
guys actually like what they do.’ ”
And what, exactly, is Cowboy Mouth trying to
do? One might ask that of any band and get some
sort of generic response, but Griffith appeals to a
specific monologue from the play “Cowboy
Mouth” by Sam Shepard and Patti Smith, where
the band takes its name, to describe its goal.
“We’re trying to live out that monologue,
where the girl tells this wannabe rock-star guy
that in order for him to be a rock star, he needs
to take the broken pieces and the suffering and
the frustrations of people’s lives and spit them
back in a song or in a way that even the lowest
common denominator can relate to,” Griffith
said. “She says he needs to be a rock ’n’ roll
Jesus with a cowboy mouth,’ and I think we
epitomize that line with the fact that (drummer)
Fred (LeBlanc) comes off almost like a revival-
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ing songs about just common plagues ofc
day life.”
Cowboy Mouth began its latest tour San
in Louisiana, home to several of the band's
bers and will continue touring almost exclusi
in the South until mid-November.
“That’s where our strongest following is,”
said. “It’s where we started out, and there’s
been an affinity for the southeast with G
Mouth and its members. We love the South."
Cowboy Mouth will make a stop in G
Station, but it will not be the band’s first a|
ance in town. The band played at North
Northgate last year.
“We have a really good friend in I
Texas,” Griffith said. “He’s a promoter in
and he’s been bringing us to College Slat
since 1993 or so, where we first used top
Third Floor Cantina. He dug us enough th;
said he’d do what he could to get us there
first couple of times we played in Coll
Station, there probably were 50 people, m
100 at the most.”
But now the band enjoys a larger audience.
Hurricane Harry's offers an ideal setting for
type of show it likes to perform.
“Most of the venues we play are ahe
(Hurricane Harry’s] size, and that’s perfect fa
because we have that intimacy with the fronta
as well as 30 rows back. We do enjoy playing
arenas, but there’s something about that 2 t OOO-
3,000-seat capacity that is really special.”
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