Live Music: Colton Sanders

Colton Sanders is a songwriter and performer from the backwoods of Northeast Texas, raised in the Red River Valley of Lamar County. His musical roots run deep—formed in the backseat of his father’s pickup, where classic country CDs by Waylon Jennings and Merle Haggard played on repeat. It was

Sanders offers up a sound steeped in country grit, Southern storytelling, and lived-in truth, he’s setting out to play every backroad bar, honky-tonk, and listening room that’ll have him.there, belting out songs by David Allan Coe and even AC/DC, that his lifelong connection to music first took hold.