Thrift Store Cowboys are an alternative country and indie rock band, formed in 1999, in Lubbock, Texas by Daniel Fluitt and Colt Miller. Presently the band also includes Clint Miller, Amanda Shires, Cory Ames, Kris Killingsworth.
The band has toured a significant portion of the southeastern and western U.S., touring with acts such as DeVotchKa, Cory Branan, and Sleepy Horses. Additionally, Thrift Store Cowboys have shared a bill with Old 97s, the Flatlanders, Lucero, Rex Hobart & the Misery Boys, Joe Ely, Centro-Matic, and Milton Mapes.
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“Loosened from the minor’s tether;
Free to mortgage or to sell,
Wild as wind, and light as feather
Bid the slaves of thrift farewell.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
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De man ah love would not gone no where, no where.”
—W.C. Handy (1873–1958)
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—John le Carré (b. 1931)