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Sam Turner and the Cactus Cats: : Sam Turner, W.D. Hesser, Michael Trakhtenberg and Troy Tabner.They say dress for the job that you want. And one look at Sam Turner and the Cactus Cats onstage, you know that they want to be a classic country band. They’ve got the cowboy hats, neatly embroidered Western shirts, and of course, boots.
The extended family would often gather at a home in the Fredericksburg, where impromptu and informal concerts were frequent occurrences. “My [stepbrother-in-law] was really into Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark and all these Texas songwriters, and we’d sit out on the back porch in the Hill Country and play guitars and sing songs,” he says.
One of them, Michael Trakhtenberg, showed up with a guitar. Later, W.D. Hesser let Turner in on something. “He’d be hanging around at the sessions and after about a month, he told me ‘You know I play bass.’ He never saidThe quartet then coalesced as Sam Turner and the Cactus Cats, playing their first gig in 2014 and releasing debut recordin 2017. The band’s lineup sometimes expands during gigs with Kevin Skrla on steel guitar and new guy Josh Artall on keyboards.
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