Girls Guns and Glory

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Girls Guns & Glory are electric and captivating with a high-energy stage presence that immediately gets people up on their feet and moving. With lyrics of heart-ache and cleverly hopeful perspective, backed by dynamic & impressive drums, bass and lead guitar, GGG become an outfit matched perfectly. “Nobody is going to walk your path for you,” Girls Guns and Glory founder and frontman Ward Hayden states matter-of-factly as he explains the inspiration for the band’s name. “ I was daydreaming in class one day, and I realized that sitting around talking about life isn't the same as living, and I was learning more about life outside the classroom. Suddenly, I imagined an old schoolmarm pointing a shotgun at the board, and the words ‘Girls Guns and Glory’ were scrawled across it. “Then it hit me that all the excitement, the color and flavor, of life and love – you learn all that stuff by getting out there and doing it. Wide open. Laugh, cry, love, fall down, get back up – that's living.” To see Girls Guns and Glory live is to experience what Ward is talking about. His "get out there and live it" attitude is as palpable in the band's stage presence as it is in the artfulness of the music itself. Urgent. Honest. Real. This isn't something you can get out of a can, it comes from the heart and soul. So naturally the band turned heads at last year’s Americana Music Association showcase in Nashville, including the head of Lonesome Day Records, Randall Deaton. Lonesome Day signed the b

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Sweet Nothings

Good Luck

Fireworks & Alcohol

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SXSW 2010 Showcasing Artists

Inverted Valentine

Pretty Little Wrecking Ball

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A Tribute to Hank Williams Live!

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Girls Guns and Glory

Love and Protest

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Boot Liquor: Americana roots music for Cowhands, Cowpokes and Cowtippers. [SomaFM]

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EAR TO THE GROUND: BOSTON

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Boot Liquor [SomaFM]

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