Country-Americana band Flatland Cavalry formed after frontman Cleto Cordero and percussionist Jason Albers moved to Lubbock, Texas—hometown of Cordero’s musical hero Buddy Holly.
∙ Their crowd-funded debut EP, 2015’s Come May, featured the popular Texas Panhandle radio track “Ain’t Over You Yet.”
∙ The band’s first single, “One I Want,” was the most-played song on Texas radio in 2016.
∙ Their first LP, 2016’s Humble Folks, reached the Top 20 on Billboard’s Americana/Folk Albums chart and the Top 40 on the Country chart.
∙ In 2020, Cordero recorded an album with his West Texas country favorites Josh Abbott and William Clark Green as part of “supergroup” The Panhandlers.
Members of Flatland Cavalry include, or have included, Cleto Cordero, Reid Dillon, and jonathan saenz.
Influenced by Flatland CavalryFlatland Cavalry has influenced the music of Hunter Thomas Mounce, Andrew Henson, Charlie Cope and more.