Live music performance by the Austin singer-songwriter project Cactus Lee at The White Horse.
Cactus Lee plays The White Horse on Saturday, October 10, at 10 PM. It's the musical project of Austin singer-songwriter Kevin Dehan, who blends country, folk, Americana, and indie rock into something that's become one of the city's more distinctive emerging sounds. He launched the project in 2019, and while it started as a solo recording venture, he now performs with a rotating band of Austin musicians.
His songwriting draws from classic names like Townes Van Zandt, John Prine, Tom T. Hall, and Gene Clark, but he wraps those traditional roots in a lo-fi, psychedelic warmth. The songs themselves are vivid portraits of small-town Texas, family, love, loss, and life on the road, delivered with understated wit and a focus on storytelling. It's the kind of music that works just as well if you're leaning in to hear the lyrics as it does if you're just letting the sound wash over you.
Because he works with a rotating cast of local players, the live version of the project can shift from night to night, though the songwriting remains the center of it. If you're familiar with the songwriters he cites, you'll recognize the lineage: the plainspoken storytelling of Prine and Van Zandt meets a more atmospheric, indie-leaning approach. It's a sound that fits right into the Austin tradition of mixing country and folk with a bit of something unexpected.
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Cactus Lee takes the stage at The White Horse, 500 Comal St, on Saturday, October 10, at 10 PM.
