Micky and The Motorcars
Led by frontman Micky Braun and his brother, guitarist Gary Braun, and initially featuring childhood friends Travis Hardy on drums and Mark McCoy on bass, Micky & the Motorcars rolled out of the Sawtooth Mountains of Stanley, Idaho in a cloud of Americana dust. The sons of veteran Western swing musician Muzzie Braun, Micky and Gary, along with older brothers Cody and Willy, spent their childhood as part of Muzzie Braun & the Little Braun Brothers band, and were stage veterans before their teens. Eventually Cody and Willy Braun left the band to form Reckless Kelly, with Micky and Gary soon following suit, moving to Austin, Texas with Hardy and McCoy as Micky & the Motorcars. Once in Texas they added Joseph Deeb on lead guitar, rounding out the group's lineup. Developing a straight-ahead style of alternative country-rock, the band released an independent album, Which Way from Here, in 2002, following it with Ain't in It for the Money on the Smith Music Group label in 2004. Hardy had left the band by that point, being replaced by Shane Vannerson, the first of several occasional shakeups to the Motorcars' lineup.
Micky & the Motorcars signed to Smith in 2007, releasing Careless that year. The next year, Naive became their first album to chart on Billboard, and it also featured guitarist Kris Farrow, who stayed with the band through 2011; he was replaced by Dustin Schaefer. That year, the group put out Raise My Glass, which debuted at 36 on Billboard's country chart. McCoy left the band after its release -- his replacement was Joe Fladger -- and tragically died in a rafting accident in April 2012. Vannerson left the band in 2013 and was replaced by Bobby Paugh, and this lineup recorded 2014's Hearts from Above, which debuted at 17 on Billboard's country chart.
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Discography
11 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Long Time Comin'
Country - Released by Micky and The Motorcars on Nov 1, 2019
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Hearts from Above
Country - Released by Micky and The Motorcars on Jun 29, 2014
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Naïve
Country - Released by Micky and The Motorcars on Jul 29, 2008
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Ain't in It for the Money
Country - Released by Micky and The Motorcars on Oct 26, 2004
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Raise My Glass
Country - Released by Micky and The Motorcars on Aug 9, 2011
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Road to You
Country - Released by Micky and The Motorcars on Sep 6, 2019
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Across the Pond (Live in Germany)
Country - Released by Micky and The Motorcars on Jul 29, 2015
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Careless
Country - Released by Micky and The Motorcars on Feb 6, 2007
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Rodeo Girl
Country - Released by Micky and The Motorcars on Oct 18, 2019
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Across the Pond (Live from Germany) (Live in Germany)
Country - Released by Micky and The Motorcars on Jul 29, 2015
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Stranger Tonight
Country - Released by Micky and The Motorcars on Sep 27, 2019
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo