Micah Edwards Keeps Moving With Texas Soul

Houston artist Micah Edwards recently released his latest EP, Concan.  The short set of songs is a lovely preview of what is to come with his new album due out next year titled, Texas Soul.  

“I was very curious because it’s the countriest I’ve ever sounded and it’s definitely part of who I am as an artist but I haven’t let it get this twangy before,” says Edwards of his four song release.  

Concan is the follow up to last year’s Pasadena, both EP’s will be part of Texas Soul along with other unreleased tracks.  Edwards is planning on pressing the album to make a double LP and an accompanying short film. As an independent artist, Edwards is planning on launching a kick starter soon to help fund his projects.  

“The reason I chose those two is because I feel like they carry the Texas soul. I feel like even if you’re from Texas, you might have never heard of either Pasadena or Concan.”  

He describes how he laid out the track listing with the vinyl production in mind. “One side sounds super motown and then you flip the record and all of a sudden its like you turned a corner into the backwoods of Texas and now it’s super country and then there is a blend. It’s all on the spectrum,” he says.  

If Concan is a sneak peak into Texas Soul, Edwards has achieved the desired effect of only leaving the listener wanting more.  Starting off with “River Man” featuring guitar virtuoso Kelly Doyle’s unmistakable note bending sounds, Concan transports listeners to the Texas Hill Country, directly to Concan.  

Edwards describes the picturesque community located in Uvalde Country along the Frio River and his love for camping there, an experience he began in high school.  “It’s like this Texas Eden, a Nirvana where the river is constantly cool throughout the year covered by these mammoth, colossal trees. Everyone just goes out there and floats. Some people set up a camp city for weeks. You see the same people every year. It’s tradition for a lot of Texans and it’s super under the radar.”  

Camping at Concan, the days are spent in the hot Texas sun finding relief in the river and sharing cold beers with friends and strangers alike.  At night, campers clean themselves off, put on their cleanest pair of dirty jeans and boots to dance at the nightly hoedown.   

“Everyone dances under the stars. Still till this day you have to put in a quarter in the jukebox,” describes Edwards with an audible smile.  “The jukebox plays and all the old people sit along the perimeter and watch the young kids two stepping.”  

Concan not only captures this feeling of sepia toned, core memories for Texas kids but also features a catchy instrumental inspired by and named after one of Houston’s wildest weather events, Derecho.  

“It was crazy,” says Edwards of his and his family’s experience with the short but powerful storm.  Edwards and his wife had just returned home from the hospital with their second born and the storm caused a tree to land on their house, forcing them to evacuate.  

“This song is meant to feel chaotic and almost celebratory because we got through that time spiritually, financially and logistically because of the community around us and that speaks to the Texas soul too,” says Edwards.  

“We know, especially Houstonians, how to rally around each other in times of crisis and we had never felt it more than that time so the song is meant to feel like a little rally,” he says describing how when they play the track live they encourage audience participation by clapping along and hollering the only words in the song, “Derecho!” 

For Edwards, who was born in California before moving to Texas in his youth, the one of a kind feeling that this state provides is a gift he hopes to celebrate and pass on, not only to his children, but his fans.  

“I’m trying to be personal but in a universal way,” says Edwards whose previous albums really delved into his family history. “I’m really focusing on Texans. I really care that Texans hear this record and I think that the themes of the songs will resonate outside of Texas. I wanted to be more universal with these songs and make this really good, feel good music that can resonate with people of all ages from different backgrounds.”   

Micah Edwards performs Saturday, January 31 at Dan Electro’s. Concan is available for streaming now. Find out more visit www.mrtexassoul.com

This article appears in Jan 1 – Dec 31, 2025.

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