After 3 years fronting Austin-based blues rock band Red River Trucking Company, Joaquín Frazier has settled into his more lyrical sensibilities, a classic sound that is equally inspired by 20th-century literature like Hemingway and Kerouac as it is the Americana musings of songwriters like Glenn Frey and Bruce Springsteen or the gritty deep south moans of Son House and Howlin' Wolf. Frazier may be just as comfortable performing intimate Texas-tinged acoustic songs as he is jamming raucous, bluesy riffs with a full band, but both styles share what he believes to be the most important element of his kind of art: storytelling, populated by characters with real lives, inspired by his own exploration of self and the spiritual ideas of those before him.