Blackbird Sing, The O's, The In & Outlaws
San Antonio’s Blackbird Sing — winner of Shiner Music’s Rising Star competition in 2011 — play a hybrid best described as crunchy country or fuck-yeah folk. It’s lyrical and stone-faced Americana done Texas-rough and San Anto-haughty and (so far) it’s been good enough to earn them a solid reputation even without a proper album out and with limited gigging.