Brother Pete Coatney

<p>This episode is the first of what we’re going to start referring to as the “Sidemen Series” on the podcast.  If you are a regular listener you know that our wheelhouse is interviewing frontmen and artists with their names on the album cover.  Well, behind all of those folks is usually a group of seasoned professional musicians helping them make the music they do.</p> <p>We’ll unofficially start this series with undoubtedly the best dressed and most dapper man in the Texas Music scene and probably country music as a whole.  Brother Pete Coatney has been the drummer for Jack Ingram for the last 26 years and has been half of the duo Frenchie’s Blues Destroyers for the last 8 years.  If you’ll recall, Frenchie was our guest on episode #68 of the podcast.  Frenchie has a remarkable story in his own right so I highly suggest checking out that episode.</p> <p>Pete Coatney has played and recorded not only with Jack Ingram and Frenchie, but has also done stints with other notables including Billy Joe Shaver, Chris Knight, and genius guit-steel player, Junior Brown.</p> <p>As you’ll hear in this interview, Pete’s fashion style and talent as a drummer is only complimented by his warm personality which made for another great interview for us and we are glad to add this episode to our body of work. </p> <p>Here comes Episode #96 of The Troubadour, featuring Brother Pete.</p> <p>Brother Pete and Frenchie’s music, merch and tour dates can be checked out by going to <a href= "https://www.bluesdestroyers.com/">https://www.bluesdestroyers.com/</a>.</p> <p>Here’s a YouTube link to one of the Blues Destroyer shows: <a href= "https://youtu.be/k1rHWMo0GW4">https://youtu.be/k1rHWMo0GW4</a></p> <p>Pete also beats the skins for Jack Ingram.  Here’ a link to Jack’s site: <a href= "https://jackingram.net/">https://jackingram.net/</a></p> <p>Here’s a YouTube link to a Jack show with Pete laying down the beats: <a href= "https://youtu.be/11hX1t3R3Pg">https://youtu.be/11hX1t3R3Pg</a></p> <p>Hope you enjoy the episode!</p> <p><strong><em>Ho