1 week Ago By By Christina Stock, Vision Editor
Award-winning country band performs in Roswell In the last six years since the band Kin Faux stepped on stage, they became known for “the band to see.” They’ll be performing for one night only at The Liberty, 312 N. Virginia Ave.
, Saturday Nov. 16 at 8 p.m.
The band has enjoyed a fast track to fame, which shows that their music style, ranging from honky tonk, country rock and red dirt/Texas, is right on point for today’s audience. Their unique brand of music has also been described by their fans as “industrial dirt.” Band members are Adam Carrillo (bass), Avery Castro (drums), Jakey Black (guitar) and Rico Gonzales (lead vocalist).
Asked if the band ever played in Roswell before, Gonzales wrote in an email, “We have! This will be our second show at the Liberty. We are so excited to be back, and we are eternally grateful for the opportunity to perform in new markets and to continue to spread our music in novel spaces.” While being based in San Antonio, Texas, some of the band members grew up in the shadows of Michigan’s crumbling auto plants, which gives their music an entire new spin, echoing authenticity and desperation of places like Kentucky coal mines, the basis of traditional American lyrical story telling.
Gonzales said that all four band members are products of their own personal respective lineage of musicians and music lovers. “Each of us have that robust passion to create and celebrate music woven tightly into the fabric of our beings. And, it’s such joy to witness one another as we collectively poor this rich history of familial influences into the music we create and/or interpret.
It truly is a cornucopia of sight, sound and a celebration of each unique perspective.” Native Texan Rico Gonzales moved to Michigan in 2015 and found fiddle work with a country band, the band’s biography reads. “They were playing the popular cover songs of the time when he met Dan Currier.
The two of them hit it off well on long drives to and from gigs around the region. At the same time, Black and Ross Barkey comprised half of a prolific outlaw country band that also made its way around the state. The two projects overlapped occasionally, and as the pair of duos overlapped more often, they discovered a mutual appreciation for Texas/red dirt music.
Contacts were made, and an experimental side project called Kin Faux was born. The band was inspired by the Texas/red dirt artists they all enjoyed, such as Randy Rogers, Kevin Fowler, Roger Creager, Turnpike Troubadours, and others. Unsure of how this brand of music would be received in Michigan, the band played sporadic off-nights as more of a creative outlet.
Still, it quickly became apparent that an unexpected and thriving Texas/red dirt scene in Michigan was hungering for exactly the kind of music the boys were bringing to the table. Kin Faux shows rapidly made a name for themselves as high-energy, vastly entertaining events. It was time to bring this group out of 'side project' status and into the forefront.
Within a few months, the band was regularly booked all over the Midwest. They honed themselves into a juggernaut of raw live energy and musical performance that became ubiquitous throughout the state.” Asked where the name Kin (family) Faux (fake) comes from, Gonzalez said that was exactly the meaning of the name.
“Kin Faux means fake family,” he said. “During the name’s inception, we briefly considered the direct translation: “Faux Kin,” but we quickly realized that particular iteration doesn’t really lend itself well to radio. But, to answer the question directly: Our former drummer (Dan Currier) and Rico began their relationship traveling together to and from shows for a pop country band, in which they both played.
Throughout the miles and conversations, Dan realized that we spend more time doing these shows and chasing this passion than we do with our actual families. We are like Kin ..
. but not. And Kin Faux was born.
” When it comes to their concerts, Gonzales said that the band tries to posture their show around the idea that they are throwing “a large racous jubilant family reunion.” There will be lots of crowd interaction, and “as much energy on stage legally allowed within the city limits,” he said. With five No.
1 hits in Texas, the band is doing very well with their current album. Asked about the forthcoming 2025 album, Gonzales said, “We are so grateful and so blessed for the continued support from all the stations, DJs and the Faux Family! Stylistically, we are expanding all the while tipping our hats, so to speak, to the music that we’ve released previously. We are introducing different elements into the new music, certainly keeping it fiddle-centered and simply trying to improve.
" After Roswell, there are big plans waiting for the band members. In late 2024-25, they are performing in Luckenbach, Texas, for their annual New Year’s dance. “We are stoked to be going back to Mile 0 Fest (Key West, Florida) in January.
We have a Billy Bob’s date and two country music cruises we are thrilled to be playing. All that information can be found on our socials for further intrigue,” Gonzales said. For more information about the concert in Roswell, visit thelibertyinc.
com . For more information on the band, visit kinfaux.com .
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