For30 years, Mack Stevens has dished out what he calls Hardcore Texas Cat Music or, in layman’s terms, the real rockabilly deal. Stevens grew up singing in church, but it didn’t seem to stick. “I got sucked into that gospel world when I was 13 or so,” he explains, “but man, that world was not for me. Never did feel genuine.”
Ditching the hymns, Stevens embraced the raw, sound of early rockabilly. “The music set me free,” says Stevens, who met his wife Karina at the inaugural Viva Las Vegas festival in 1998.