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Favoring a style of country music that owes as much to the bandÆs native Texas as the genreÆs Nashville headquarters, the Josh Abbott Band began taking shape in 2004. While studying communications at Texas Tech, frontman Josh Abbott began making trips to the Blue Light, a club in downtown Lubbock that helped launch the careers of regional luminaries like Cross Canadian Ragweed and Ryan Bingham. Inspired by the rough-and-tumble ôTexas countryö bands that regularly played the venue, he started writing his own songs and playing them at local bars, using members of his fraternity to form an early incarnation of the Josh Abbott Band. One of the groupÆs first songs, ôTaste,ö became a hit on local radio, prompting Abbott to drop out of school, shuffle the bandÆs lineup, and record their debut album Scapegoat. With Scapegoat still generating a good amount of local buzz, the Josh Abbott Band returned in 2010 with SheÆs Like Texas, a strong sophomore album featuring Nashville Star finalist Kace...