Kin Faux LIVE at The Spur

Schedule

Sat, 15 Nov, 2025 at 08:00 pm

UTC-09:00

Location

537 Gaffney Rd., Fairbanks, AK | Fairbanks, AK

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are super excited to announce The 2nd Annual Texas Music Showcase with Kin Faux third in our series of concerts!! This has us so excited to not only have our showcase but to have full bands, not just the acoustic we in Alaska normally get.

With most of the band having grown up in the shadows of the crumbling auto plants of Michigan, Kin Faux's music echoes the authenticity and desperation of places like Kentucky coal mines and other pockets of traditional American folklore where the livelihood of entire communities was swept out from underneath them, leaving people to fend for themselves to provide for their families. This upbringing and experience brings a unique character to their brand of music that has been dubbed “Industrial Dirt” by some.
Native Texan, Rico Gonzalez, moved to Michigan in 2015 with his wife and found fiddle work with a Country band, playing the popular cover songs of the time, where he met Dan Currier. The two of them hit it off well on long drives to and from gigs around the region. At the same time, Jakey Black IX and Ross Barkey comprised half of a prolific Outlaw Country band that also made its way around the state. The two projects overlapped occasionally, and as the pair of duos overlapped more and more often, they discovered a mutual appreciation for Texas/Red Dirt music, contacts were made, and an experimental side project called Kin Faux was born. The band was inspired by the Texas/Red Dirt artists they all enjoyed such as Randy Rogers, Kevin Fowler, Roger Creager, Turnpike Troubadours and others. Unsure of how this brand of music would be received in Michigan, the band played sporadic off nights as more of a creative outlet, but it quickly became apparent that there was an unexpected and thriving Texas/Red Dirt scene in Michigan that was hungering for exactly the kind of music the boys were bringing to the table. Kin Faux shows rapidly made a name for themselves as high-energy, vastly entertaining events and the band found themselves being regarded as “the band to see” in the area. It was time to bring this group out of “side project” status and into the forefront.
Within a few months, the boys were regularly booked all over the Midwest and honed themselves into a juggernaut of raw live energy and musical performance that became ubiquitous throughout the state. Within six months of being formed, they garnered wins as Review Magazine's Best Country Band, and Rico as Best Country Musician in 2018. They began to forge relationships with influential artists such as Bobby Randall (Sawyer Brown, Confederate Railroad) and renowned songwriters like Bernie Nelson (Chris LeDoux, John Anderson, Confederate Railroad, Conway Twitty).
In the ensuing year, the boys made a trip to Mainframe Studios in Nashville to record their self-titled debut EP (produced by Bobby Randall) and began to expand their touring to include several tours of Texas itself to see how their brand of Texas music would be received. Each tour built on the successes of the previous tour and Kin Faux started to become regular fixtures at such iconic venues as Luckenbach, John T Floore's and Gruene Hall, and working with such acts as Kevin Fowler, Roger Creager, Rick Trevino and Trace Adkins, among others. Kin Faux's EP was released in the fall of 2018 to rave reviews, garnering five more wins from Review Magazine's Music Awards including Best Country Band, Best CD Release for the band and Best Multi-Instrumentalist, Best Country Songwriter and Best Country Instrumentalist for Rico.
Their four successful tours of Texas found them cultivating relationships with more legendary songwriters, such as David Lee (Cody Johnson, Montgomery Gentry, Tim McGraw, Trace Adkins, George Strait), Brett Beavers (Lee Ann Womack, Toby Keith, Dierks Bentley) and Jim Beavers (Toby Keith, Dierks Bentley, Josh Turner, Blake Shelton, Chris Stapleton), and it began to be obvious that Texas offered opportunities that couldn't be found anywhere else, so, in true Kin Faux fashion, they once again piled into the van as a unit and hit the road, this time with permanence on their collective minds and relocated to San Antonio to pursue success full-time.
They released their first single, Teardrops on the Rocks (from their debut EP) in the summer of 2019, which peaked at #20 on the Texas Charts. While working this single, mid-tour and between dates, the boys went back to Nashville to record again, this time to Sony Tree Studios with Jim Beavers at the helm. This session produced their second single, Locked Up in Lubbock, released in March of 2020. Even with the COVID lockdown stymieing their touring and promotion efforts, Locked Up topped out at a respectable #26 on the Texas Charts. The boys released their third single, Honky Tonk in Heaven in October of 2020, and this song would become the band's breakout single, steadily working its way up the charts and finally delivering their first #1 hit on Texas Radio in March 2021. Locked Up and Honky Tonk would appear on the band's second album, with the latter serving as the title track, released in April of 2021.
Honky Tonk in Heaven would prove to be the album that would establish Kin Faux as a mainstay on the Texas music charts. The title track reached #1 for two consecutive weeks; followed by Plainview, which reached #3; and Wild Horses (a duet with Terry McBride), which also hit #1 for two weeks on the Texas Charts. The success of this album would garner the boys a couple Texas Country Music Association Awards as well, taking home trophies for Country Band of the Year in 2021, and Single of the Year (for Wild Horses) in 2022, as well as a Texas Regional Radio Award for New Band or Duo of the Year in 2022. This period also found the band dabbling into music videos, creating videos for Plainview, Wild Horses and Mas Tequila Por Favor.
**Doors open at 8pm for VIP
**Doors for General Admission at 8:30pm
**This is a 21+ event.
**No outside food and drink allowed.
**No large bags will be allowed. All bags will be checked before entering the concert.
** No refunds unless the concert is cancelled
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537 Gaffney Rd., Fairbanks, AK, United States

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