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Sulphur Springs, Texas (1998 – present)

Fair to Midland are a band formed in Sulphur Springs, Texas in 1998.

Anyone who thinks the phrase “it’s all been done before” carries real weight clearly has yet to encounter Fair to Midland. Dark, heavy, moving, cryptic, progressive collides with flourishes of old-school country, Americana and Delta Blues in their sound. These Lonestar boys genre-defying and boundary obliterating ocean of sound righteously upends the old phrase “fair to middling” from which their Texas-ified moniker was drawn.

Arrows & Anchors, the five-piece band’s first album in partnership with eOne Music, is meaner, sadder and altogether more desperate of an affair than its predecessors. “It’s a very bitter album,” offers vocalist Darroh Sudderth. “The last album had some light at the end of the tunnel in some of the subject matter. This one doesn’t have that quite so much.”

This particularly invigorating yet undeniably gut-wrenching collection of songs is the product of a string of years of career strife since the group last poked their head into magazines and record shops. Arrows and Anchors follows a change in record label, a change in management and one (“maybe two,” Sudderth laughs) changes in booking agent. All of that change and upheaval definitely played a role in the creative process; artistic lemonade from business lemons.

There has never been a lack of faith from the diehard admirers who have steadily adopted the band as their own in growing numbers since Fair to Midland’s initial pair of self-released albums, The Carbon Copy Silver Lining (2001) and inter.
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  • karmapolice911

    Also I'm obsessed with this band! So good!

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  • Aborted-Fetus

    Such a great and unique band

    23 May 12:28am Reply

  • Bublikozavr

    да сучки, да блять, вы охуенные

    29 Apr 7:29pm Reply

  • Joizo

    New album would be nice.

    17 Apr 4:30pm Reply

  • tiagosec

    new album plz [3]

    24 Mar 1:08pm Reply

  • Zach216

    I haven't heard the live CD but can definitely say that all 4 times I've seen the band live Darroh always sounded excellent.

    18 Feb 6:50pm Reply

  • numentalist

    new album plz (2)

    13 Feb 11:08pm Reply

  • MoreBRAAAINS

    Yep.

    3 Jan 1:56pm Reply

  • Joizo

    FTM is fucking unbelievable!

    2 Jan 4:21pm Reply

  • Sonata89

    I am kinda disappointed by their new live cd "The Machine shop". "Arrows and anchors" is one of the best records ever and I love the voice of Darroh Sudderth but it seems like his voice is live a lot weaker than on record..Of course it's never exactly the same sound but well...It just doesn't sound very good if I listen to powerful songs like "Uh-Oh" or "Whiskey and Ritalin". :/ Only his growls and the silent vocals are pretty awesome...rest is kinda creepy..

    20 Dec 2012 Reply

  • wlaXrbl

    Oh, and if you want to send me an pn or a shout what you think or if you have some recommandations, feel free to contact me. thanks.

    12 Dec 2012 Reply

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    12 Dec 2012 Reply

  • Wumbologic

    Fantastic new find. Can't stop listening :D

    20 Nov 2012 Reply

  • headgear56

    Music to get tattooed by.

    10 Nov 2012 Reply

  • Alexis-dark

    Шикарные ребята! Влюбилась в их музыку.

    29 Oct 2012 Reply

  • srflipflops

    @schlampenutte Indeed.

    22 Oct 2012 Reply

  • knight_88

    Great band.

    20 Oct 2012 Reply

  • schlampenutte

    Hmm I like their new picture. There is a forest. I like forests, 'cause they got trees. Trees looks like Ents from The Lord Of A Ring. They are funny. So I guess this picture is funny, and funny things are good things.

    4 Oct 2012 Reply

  • Ghestal

    new album plz

    14 Sep 2012 Reply
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