Brandon Hudgeons

Brandon Hudgeons has been making up songs since he could hold a guitar. He was born and raised in Midland, Texas. An early passion for music and an obsession with 70s and 80s country songcraft led to rock bands, a folk trio at Dartmouth, and decades in the Austin rooms where Texas songwriting lives.

Never too far from the music, Brandon finally made a commitment in 2022. It started while listening to a podcast interview with one of his favorite Austin songwriters, Graham Wilkinson, who said, “Anybody can get good enough to play shitty bars.”

Brandon thought, “Well, hell, I’m anybody.”

Then Todd Snider closed a magical show at the Paramount by saying, “If any of y’all want to come out here and chase songs with us, I don’t see how any bad can come of it.”

Hudgeons writes at least one song every week — a consecutive streak now 119 weeks long — as part of the Song Club that he started and operates as its benevolent dictator. He works all of the local Austin songwriter stages, including Cactus Cafe, Hole in the Wall, Carousel Lounge, and Batch Austin. Eight notebooks full of lyrics. A 1989 Provan Tiger Astro van that doubles as his tour bus, festival home, and mobile songwriting vessel.

The first single from his first album album, Rock Bottom Church, is out now and available everywhere, and more music is dropping soon.