Thrift Store Cowboys and Amanda Shire (10/1/09) – These fine folks from Lubbock, Texas, are on tour and came by the office yesterday. They were all very nice folks and after listening to their albums, I can also add that they are great musicians, too. Two of the Cowboys work at Ralphs’ Records in Lubbock, Texas and when they said that, I told them how I saw someone at a Cory Branan show with a Ralph’s Records’ t-shirt on and they said they had an extra hoodie and they gave it to us for our very own Ralph. How nice huh? Another neat thing is Amanda asked us if we had the Justin Townes Earle album “The Good Life” and when I showed her we did, she showed me that she is in the photo with Justin on the cover and the back. Pretty cool if you ask me. I highly recommend checking out both The Thrift Store Cowboys and Amanda Shires.