Amarillo native Aaron Watson has been a star in the Texas music scene for two decades. His eighteenth album ‘Red Bandana’ released in June, and it’s a phenomenal twenty-song opus. He performs “Trying Like the Devil” in the latest installment of our Sound Check series. Presented by Visit Fort Worth.
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