The Dead Cowboys want to let everyone know that because of confusion over the band name they are now known as Bobby Jensen and The Dead Cowboys. To celebrate the slight name change Bobby is releasing The Lake the first in a series of four music videos taken from the debut album. The video was done by Andy Pilkington who did the Judas Priest Painkiller video.
Watch the video The Lake below:
Stream the album Dead Cowboys: https://smarturl.it/Deadcowboys
Bobby Jensen shares his reasoning for the name change, “The name change came about because over the course of the 20 years since I trademarked the name, Dead Cowboys, other groups around the country had started to use the name so there was confusion with talent, buyers, and fans when they would Google the name and be brought to somebody else’s page. I could have chased them all down and given them cease and desist orders but I kind of had a moment of clarity and felt like the name and the idea and concept had run its course and honestly wasn’t working out to be what I intended it to be again.
It was a great thing that we did as a band years ago, but even when recreating it, it wasn’t the same. More importantly, my own name had grown to be much bigger with tens of thousands of followers already following me as Bobby Jensen, especially since the world knows me from the viral hair fire video as Paul Stanley of KISS so I decided to use my own name and title the album “Dead Cowboys”. Now the legend can live on in the songs and I can create the stories with a lot more freedom and not get the band stereotyped into one thing.”
Talking about the new music video, Bobby adds, “The Lake came about when my friend Mike stopped over and was running some ideas of his own that he had come up with and I honestly don’t remember anything about what he came up with except for the first line of the song was “He sees dead cowboys wait in the night looking to rob a train”, and “boom goes to the dynamite”. Those two things stuck in my head for a while, and I thought it would be cool to have a song about a train robbery so while noodling on my guitar, I came up with the music and the lyrics. Not really knowing what to call the song. I decided to call it “The Lake” since that’s where everybody dies.
The video was done by Andy Pilkington who did the Judas Priest Painkiller video. He has worked with Saxon, Dee Snider, Motorhead and more. He did the first two videos for “bad friends and good times“ and “super country cowboy”. While we were discussing other songs and ideas, I mentioned to him that some of these stories could actually fit together as continuations of the video so he really liked the idea and we took four songs to become the saga of the demon desperado. It will be a four part video that may be a continuation with other songs in the future. That’s where the freedom of the creativity to write songs about the demon desperado and the dead cowboys I had mentioned earlier. Maybe someone would make them into movies someday.”
Upcoming Tour Dates:
03/28 - BIG GUYS BBQ
04/17 - ROUTE 47
04/18 - NORTHSTAR BAR
05/08 - THE DOGHOUSE
05/15 - THE COMMANDER BAR
05/16 - THE COMMANDER BAR
05/29 - LE’MUSIQUE ROOM
05/30 - PIONEER PLACE
06/20 - BLOOMINGTON VFW
08/16 - ST. PAUL PARK
09/05 - DOC’S
09/25 - THE COMMANDER BAR
09/26 - THE COMMANDER BAR
10/03 - MAINSTREET HOPKINS
10/23 - ROUTE 47
Tickets and show details: https://bnds.us/n955x3
Band Members:
Bobby Jensen- Lead vocals / guitar
General Collins - pedal steel/ guitar/ vocals
Jordan Abhold - Bass / Vocals
Natalie Irish - Fiddle / keys/ vocals
Adam Ferris - Drums
Tracy Frink - Pyro / Stage Manager / Demon Desperado
“Lethal” Leisa Moses - Hair /Wardrobe / Monster wrangler
Songwriter / Production Credits:
Production Credits: Producer – BOBBY JENSEN, Engineer BRIAN BART, Recording Studio LOGIC
Bad Friends & Good Times - Written by: Bobby Jensen (Jensen Road/BMI)
Super Country Cowboy - Written by: Allen JR. Sostrin / Kevin Douglas / Rockie Rash
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Crazy Horses - Merrill Davis Osmond / Wayne Osmond / Alan Ralph Osmond
Crazy Horses lyrics © Mike Curb Music
The Lake – Written by: Bobby Jensen (Jensen Road/BMI) / Mike Frank
Hot Rod Vega - Written by: Allen JR. Sostrin / Kevin Douglas / Rockie Rash
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Mexico - Written by: Bobby Jensen (Jensen Road/BMI)
Jensen Road – Written by: Bobby Jensen (Jensen Road/BMI)
When The Cows Come Home – Merle Travis / Bobby Jensen (Jensen Road/BMI)
Demon Desperado – Written by: Bobby Jensen (Jensen Road/BMI)
The Lake video - Andy Pilkington, https://www.verymetal.co.uk/lyric-videos
WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA:
https://www.facebook.com/BOBBY.JENSEN.USA/
https://www.instagram.com/bobbyjensen13/