“Dirt Reynolds puts the SHIT in HITS” - Cream Magazine

“Listening to Dirt Reynolds is like driving behind two eighteen-wheelers going slightly below the speed limit in both lanes” - Scrolling Stoned

“Dirt Reynolds always leaves them wanting less” - Shit Parader

“Dirt Reynolds misses the nail and puts a hole in the wall” - Pitchdork

“Sure, he’s a little unprofessional, but the music also sucks” - Sound guy at The Rusty Knob

Dirt Reynolds is the musical monicker of Nashville singer, songwriter, and guitarist Chris Watts. A former troublemaker raised in central Louisiana, Watts was stabbed in a bar and shot in the New Orleans Super Dome while on Hurricane Katrina duty for the Louisiana National Guard. Surprisingly, neither incident was a reaction to his music.

Reynolds independently released his debut album Scalawag in the wake of a deadly East Nashville tornado and global pandemic on July 26, 2020. The album combines raucous rock ’n’ roll with broke-but-not-broken characters to illustrate the truth and the lies the American South tells to itself and others.

Scalawag was called “a rousing slice of air-punching alt-country” by folking.com and “a new southern revolution” by Disciples of Sound. Country Standard Time said “Watts comes out firing relentlessly”.