The Gourds

It’s not every country band that would write a song about being a Luddite, or one that finds its narrator relating, all too deeply, to a rotting fossil on the beach. But the Gourds, who wrote both odes, clearly aren’t just any country band. The Austin-based act first made waves 10 years ago by performing twangy covers of Bowie’s “Ziggy Stardust” and Snoop Dogg’s “Gin and Juice.” It’s their own songs, though, that have showed the wit and depth.