Texas Music Award nominee Nick Brumley has teamed up with classically trained upright bassist Eric Gardner to form Brumley & Gardner, an acoustic duo that take the aesthetic of traditional American roots music and give it a modern twist, pushing the boundaries of traditional acoustic music into new territories. They first met last year when Eric started playing bass with the Good Time Rounders, a mainstay in the Marshall, Texas, music scene. The musical chemistry between the two was evident immediately, and they first played as a duo at the Hard Rock Cafe in Dallas in June of this 2010. After that first show, Brumley and Gardner knew that they had something special. Their music is all acoustic, with Brumley on guitar and banjo and Gardner on the upright bass, and varies from slow and sorrowful to funky rockin' blues. They describe it as "Texas Whiskey Soul with a Dash of Louisiana Spicy." Brumley and Gardner are releasing "Wild Life" in Nov...