Josh Abbott Band is an American Texas Country

Texas Country

Texas country music is a rapidly growing sub-genre of American country music. Texas country is known for fusing traditionalist root sounds with the outspoken, care-free views of outlaw country...

 band from the state of Texas

Texas

Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

. It is composed of Josh Abbott (vocals, guitar), Preston Wait (fiddle, guitar), Edward Villanueva (drums), James Hertless (bass) and Caleb Keeter (guitar).

Josh Abbott founded the band in the 2000s in Lubbock, Texas

Lubbock, Texas

Lubbock is a city in and the county seat of Lubbock County, Texas, United States. The city is located in the northwestern part of the state, a region known historically as the Llano Estacado, and the home of Texas Tech University and Lubbock Christian University...

 while attending Texas Tech University

Texas Tech University

Texas Tech University, often referred to as Texas Tech or TTU, is a public research university in Lubbock, Texas, United States. Established on February 10, 1923, and originally known as Texas Technological College, it is the leading institution of the Texas Tech University System and has the...

. He quit college, a thesis away from his Masters degree, to pursue a musical career full time, and founded the band with Preston Wait, guitarist Jedd Hughes

Jedd Hughes

Jedd Hughes is a country musician born in Australia. Hughes grew up in Quorn, where he grew up listening to his father's country records. He won a local country music contest at the age of eight and began playing guitar from age nine, taking lessons from his father...

 and former Ricochet

Ricochet (band)

Ricochet is an American country music band from Oklahoma. The band was founded in 1993 by brothers Jeff Bryant and Junior Bryant , along with Heath Wright , Greg Cook , Teddy Carr , and Eddie Kilgallon ,After several years of...

 member Heath Wright. After Hughes and Wright dropped out, they were replaced with the band's current lineup. After signing with Bruce Kalmick and Ambiance Artists Management Group in December 2008, the wheels started turning fast for one of Texas Music's quickest risers. With the assistance of former Sons of the Desert

Sons of the Desert (band)

Sons of the Desert was an American country music band founded in 1989 in Waco, Texas by brothers Drew Womack and Tim Womack , along with Scott Saunders , Doug Virden and Brian Westrum...

 lead singer Drew Womack, the band recorded an album titled Scapegoat in 2009.

A second album, She's Like Texas, followed in 2010. This album has made the Top Country Albums charts. Michael Berick of Allmusic rated it four stars out of five, comparing it to Steve Earle

Steve Earle

Stephen Fain "Steve" Earle is an American singer-songwriter known for his rock and Texas Country as well as his political views. He is also a producer, author, a political activist, and an actor, and has written and directed a play....

 and saying that Abbott's songwriting showed "maturity".

It includes the single "Oh, Tonight", which debuted at number 59 and peaked at 44 on the Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

 charts in early 2011. The song is a duet with Nashville Star

Nashville Star

Nashville Star is an American reality television program. It was transmitted during mid-2008 on NBC, following five seasons on USA Network. It premiered on March 8, 2003, and its five seasons on USA made it the longest-running competition series on cable television. In Canada, the show aired on CMT...

season 5 finalist and Universal Music recording artist Kacey Musgraves.

Albums

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions
		US Country	US Indie	US Heat Top Heatseekers Top Heatseekers refers to either of two separate "Breaking and Entering" music charts issued weekly by Billboard Magazine: the Heatseekers Albums chart or the Heatseekers Songs chart. They were introduced by Billboard in 1993 with the purpose of highlighting the sales by new and developing musical...
Scapegoat	Release date: March 31, 2009 Label: Pretty Damn Tough	—	—	—
She's Like Texas	Release date: February 16, 2010 Label: Pretty Damn Tough	28	28	5
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Singles

Year	Single	Peak positions	Album
		US Country Hot Country Songs Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...
2010	"She's Like Texas"	—	She's Like Texas
	"Road Trippin'"	—
2011	"Oh, Tonight" (with Kacey Musgraves)	44
	"My Texas" (with Pat Green Pat Green Patrick Craven "Pat" Green is an American Texas Country artist. Active since 1995, he has recorded a total of ten studio albums, including several independent works, three for Republic Records and two for BNA... )	—	TBD
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Music videos

Year	Video	Director
2010	"She's Like Texas"	Evan Kaufmann
	"Road Trippin'"
2011	"Oh, Tonight" (with Kacey Musgraves)