With a desire to open the mind of the modern music scene, Watkins brings flavors of Classic Pop and Alternative Rock into the world with an experimental twist. Their folk-rock and indie influence comes across in the dynamics of the music.  Lead Singer, Taylor Watkins, has created a grassroots following across the country, known for his new age guitar picking and unique vocal performance.  The band brings love and energy to the stage and always leaves the crowd with a deeper sense of community.  The love for traveling and psychedelic spirituality shines through in the lyrics and keeps the band motivated to spread their message.

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No Zapatos was transformed into a four piece band called "Watkins" in 2017.  Find their music on all streaming services.  Follow them on social media @thebandwatkins.  Album "Interstate of Mind" and new singles out now!

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Americana rock band.
Alex Mowry - guitar, vocals
Chris Mowry - guitar, mandolin, keyboards, vocals
Kelly Saunders - vocals
Will Hermanson - drums
David Williams - bass, harmonica, vocals
Jon Carleton - pedal steel guitar, keyboards

Rock & Roll / Americana
From the time he could talk, CHAPPY was hollering song. Now, over two decades later, that same voice carries the dust, fire, and soul of a life well-traveled — channeled into a debut album that’s been years in the making. Wrestle Me is a battle cry, a reckoning, a love letter to the beautiful chaos of being alive.

Rooted in Nashville and raised on the grit of rock and roll and the storytelling backbone of Americana, CHAPPY's sound is a bruised-knuckle handshake between emotion and power — built for open roads, dive bars, and windows rolled all the way down. Each track pulses with raw honesty: heavy guitars, haunting hooks, and a voice that doesn’t just sing but testifies.

With influences ranging from James Taylor to Brittany Howard, Springsteen to Nathaniel Rateliff, CHAPPY makes music that feels like a fistfight and a confession all at once. These are songs born in the middle of heartbreak and healing — the kind of music that demands to be felt as much as heard.

The deep cinematic bellow of “Sleep” opens like a storm and settles into something haunting. It walks barefoot through the quiet, asking the questions we’re too afraid to say out loud — What is happening to me? Which version of myself is out here? Heavy organ swells echo like a church service at the end of the world, pierced by ice-pick guitars that stab the silence. Vulnerability and grit hold hands here, blurring the line between dreamscape and confession.

“We’ll Be Alright” burns like a sermon shouted inside a sweaty roots-rock revival tent — equal parts reassurance and raw doubt. It stomps and pulses with conviction, like it needs to believe what it’s preaching. But by the time the final chorus dissolves into the brooding, almost whispered “Will we actually be alright?”, the bottom drops out. What’s left is something both tender and terrifying — a crowd-raising anthem that ultimately folds in on itself, questioning the very hope it clings to.

In the high-octane emotional release “My Father is a Good Man,” the throttle is thrown wide open. This isn’t a sweet ode — it’s a reckoning with love that doesn’t quite know what to do with itself. In a world full of broken men and fractured families, CHAPPY shouts into the void: What does it mean to have a good dad? And why does it feel like a secret? The guitars tear at the seams, trying to outrun the weight of that question, while the vocals teeter between gratitude, guilt, and disbelief.

“Rollin’ / Fighter” doesn’t walk — it chugs. The rhythm hits like pistons firing, gears grinding, and an 18-wheeler thundering onward. It’s the sound of a body in motion, trying to outrun something it can’t name; a full-throated anthem for anyone who’s ever clenched the wheel and kept driving through doubt, grief, and fire. Rollin’ / Fighter spits motion, but not escape — it’s the pushing forward when the war you’re carrying is the one inside.

Wrestle Me marks CHAPPY’s bold entry into the scene — but it also reflects over 20 years of grit, growth, and grinding it out. A debut that hits like anything but a first time.

I make music in my home studio - hope u enjoy

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