Flatland Cavalry @ Irving Plaza

Flatland Cavalry put on a beautiful show at Irving Plaza on February 15, 2024. Having Kaitlin Butts warm up the stage, it surely made for the perfect evening.

Kaitlin Butts

Raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Kaitlin Butts began singing as a child. Raised on musical theater, pop, and alternative rock. She was drawn to country in her teens, gravitating toward Miranda Lambert. Butts learned Lambert’s songs as she took guitar lessons, which inspired her to start writing her own material. Upon her graduating in 2011, she attended the Academy of Contemporary Music at the University of Central Oklahoma where she continued her musical endeavors.

Butts began working on her first album after earning her associate’s degree. She eventually cut the record with producer Mike McClure at his Boohatch Studio. The resulting Same Hell, Different Devil appeared in February of 2015.

2019’s digital release of “White River” led to a series of three digital singles. Those were: “How Lucky Am I,” “White River (Remix),” and “Marfa Lights”, released in 2021. Butts quickly followed these singles with the mini-LP What Else Can She Do. Featuring “Blood,” a song co-written with Pistol Annie Angaleena Presley, and produced by Oran Thornton, “What Else Can She Do” arrived early in 2022.

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Flatland Cavalry

Flatland Cavalry straddles the line between the Panhandle and the badlands of West Texas with their bright, earthy country ballads and gritty folk ramblers.

Vocalist and chief songwriter Cleto Cordero’s honest, songwriting revolves around the vernacular world of West Texas that he’s constructed with dusty, sun-soaked character sketches, brooding self-evaluations, and candid love songs that all have the ability to turn into singalong anthems.   Formed in 2012, guitarist Reid Dillon, bassist Jonathan Saenz, and drummer Jason Albers joined Cordero, quickly garnering the attention of the masses with the release of the debut EP, Come May, in the spring of 2015. Building off successes of Come May, the group released Humble Folks in 2017 and have added Wesley Hall on fiddle and Adam Gallegos as a utility player. In early 2019 the band released their second full length album Homeland Insecurity, followed by their third album Welcome to Countryland in 2021.

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