Giovannie and the Hired Guns
With a sound that draws on everything from Southern rock, alt-rock, and metal to Latin hip-hop and música norteña, Giovannie and the Hired Guns introduced their gruff-voiced country-rock fusion with the Bad Habits album in 2017. By then a celebrated live act in their native Texas, they followed up with a 2020 eponymous LP and 2022's even more alt-rock-minded Tejano Punk Boyz, their major-label debut.
Originally from Mineral Wells in North Texas, bandleader Giovannie Yanez began performing his own soul-baring songs at local bars in his late teens. During that time, he was working days at a rock quarry before landing a job at a pawn shop, where he met bassist Alex Trejo. They put together a band with drummer Milton Toles. The Stephenville, Texas-based group started playing a grueling live schedule and were eventually selling out shows across the state. Their self-released debut album, Bad Habits, was written by Yanez and produced and engineered by Taylor Kimball (Austin Meade, Kody West).
Giovannie and the Hired Guns were soon sharing concert bills with Kody West and Read Southall Band, and in 2019, they played to a crowd of 36,000 when they opened an Arlington show for Jason Aldean. Featuring guitarists Chance Bannister and Adam Urbanczyk, their second album, simply titled Giovannie and the Hired Guns, followed in mid-2020. The record only increased their following, with the breakup-themed "Rooster Tattoo" garnering millions of streams.
Guitarists Jerrod Flusche and Carlos Villa replaced Bannister and Urbanczyk, and the five-piece signed with Warner Music Nashville in mid-2020. Giovannie and the Hired Guns' major-label debut, Tejano Punk Boyz, was released in October 2022.
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Discography
16 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Tejano Punk Boyz
Alternative & Indie - Released by Tejano Punk Boyz - Crush South - Warner Music Nashville on 28 Oct 2022
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Ramon Ayala
Alternative & Indie - Released by Tejano Punk Boyz - Crush South - Warner Music Nashville on 31 Aug 2022
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Overrated
Alternative & Indie - Released by Tejano Punk Boyz - Crush South - Warner Music Nashville on 27 Sep 2022
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Tejano Punk Boyz Live (Live)
Alternative & Indie - Released by Tejano Punk Boyz - Crush South - Warner Music Nashville on 13 Oct 2023
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Ramon Ayala (feat. Bo Bundy)
Alternative & Indie - Released by Tejano Punk Boyz - Crush South - Warner Music Nashville on 31 Aug 2022
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
I Don't Mind (Live at Tulips)
Alternative & Indie - Released by Tejano Punk Boyz - Crush South - Warner Music Nashville on 31 Aug 2022
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Chiquita
Alternative & Indie - Released by Tejano Punk Boyz - Crush South - Warner Music Nashville on 22 Apr 2024
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Bad Habits
Alternative & Indie - Released by Giovannie and the Hired Guns on 25 Aug 2017
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Giovannie and the Hired Guns
Alternative & Indie - Released by Giovannie and the Hired Guns on 29 May 2020
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Can't Answer Why
Alternative & Indie - Released by Tejano Punk Boyz - Crush South - Warner Music Nashville on 31 Aug 2022
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
I Don't Mind
Alternative & Indie - Released by Tejano Punk Boyz - Crush South - Warner Music Nashville on 31 Aug 2022
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Better Days
Alternative & Indie - Released by Giovannie and the Hired Guns on 14 Feb 2017
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Calling You Tonight
Alternative & Indie - Released by Giovannie and the Hired Guns on 21 Sep 2017
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Satan & St. Paul (Live at Sun Studios)
Giovannie and the Hired Guns, Shake Music TV
Alternative & Indie - Released by Giovannie and the Hired Guns on 25 Oct 2019
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Cocaine Cowboy
Bo Bundy, Giovannie and the Hired Guns
Rock - Released by Rancho Humilde on 18 Aug 2023
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Land Of The Lost
Alternative & Indie - To be released on 13 Sep 2024 by Tejano Punk Boyz - Crush South - Warner Music Nashville
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo