We do not put a word on a shirt just to fill the space. Every design we make starts with a story, the kind somebody tells at the end of the bar or around the fire. Some of them are about Nashville. Some are about the West it came out of. A few might even be true.
Every one is drawn by working cowboys and printed in Nashville on 240 GSM heavyweight cotton, garment dyed so it softens with every wash. If you want to know where the name came from, that is a story of its own. Here is the rest.
Broadway Tee
Every Saturday night somebody tells the story of the cowboy who rode his horse down Lower Broadway. Some say it was a dare. Some say he was late for his own set. Nobody can prove it happened and nobody wants to. This one is for everybody who has ridden up and down that street, on foot, on a pedal tavern or on a bad idea. Also cut as the Broadway Hoodie, for the January version of the same ride.
Music City Neon Tee
Every honky tonk on Broadway has a sign, and every sign has a story about who paid for it. Ours has a cowgirl on top, kicked back in her boots like the rent is somebody else's problem, lit up over a steer skull and a horseshoe for luck. Nobody knows her name. Everybody has a theory.
Broke Musician Tee
He rolled into Nashville with a guitar, two hundred dollars and a song he was sure about. The money went first, then the certainty, then eventually the pulse, and he never noticed, because the Tuesday six o'clock slot pays the same either way. For everybody who has ever tipped in a hat or played for the door. Also cut as the Broke Musician Hoodie, for the late set.
Nashville Sessions Tee
Some of the best songs in this town never made it to a stage. They got written on a riverbank at dusk by somebody who was supposed to be watching the lines. The catfish has heard every one of them, and he still does not think much of your bait. He shows up on the Nashville Sessions Hat too.
Holdup Tee
The train left the depot on time with the payroll and a conductor who had made the run four hundred times. Then the riders came out of the cut at a dead gallop. Nobody in the next town ever agreed on how many there were or which way they went, which is how you know it was a good holdup.
Standoff Tee
Two men, one street, and a town full of people who suddenly remembered something they had to do indoors. Nobody remembers what it was about anymore. What matters is that neither one blinked.
Gambler Tee
He lost the first hand fair, and the next six. Somewhere around midnight the cards stopped being the problem and the table was. Every hand is a loser if you sit there long enough. The shirt will not improve your hand, but it will improve how you look losing it.
Lever Action Tee
A working cowboy will sell the horse if the price is right and the saddle if the winter runs long, but the lever action stays. This one is for the ones who carry something like that and keep it quiet. Also cut as the Lever Action Hoodie, for the first cold hour before the sun clears the ridge.
Cowboy Killer Tee
Every cowboy on every billboard kept a red pack in his shirt pocket, and the old hands had a name for them. We kept the pack, the moon and the sunset, and left out the cough.
The Caps
Our caps carry their own stories, every one embroidered in Nashville.
- Rattler Hat. Check Your Boots stitched across the front, the one rule in snake country. Good advice on a ranch, and still good advice in a bar parking lot at two in the morning.
- Stillhouse Hat. A stone stillhouse down in the holler, and a man who swears it makes apple butter. It does not make apple butter.
- Bass Hat. The one that got away. He came up out of the water like he had a grudge, threw the hook, and he is still out there.
- Bottomland Badge Hat. No story at all, on purpose. Just the diamond badge on camo, for the mornings in the stand before daylight.
Find Yours
Shop the whole line online, or come see us in Marathon Village, right outside downtown Nashville. Everything we design ships from Nashville within 2 business days.
