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by Hailey Green, Fort Worth Report
April 22, 2026<\/p>\n
Listen up, Fort Worth! Welcome to The Soundcheck<\/strong>, a new biweekly music column keeping you in the loop on what\u2019s happening across the Tarrant music scene.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n It\u2019s a packed Saturday night at The Post \u2014 the self-proclaimed No. 1 Listening Room in Fort Worth \u2014 when the Cut Throat Finches take the stage.\u00a0<\/p>\n Drinks were flowing and spirits high as people gathered April 18 to hear the first live performance of the rock band\u2019s highly anticipated new record \u201cHigh Horse.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Lead singer Sean Russell stepped under the lights and asked the crowd, \u201cHow ya\u2019ll doin\u2019 tonight?\u201d The electricity was palpable.<\/p>\n Three days earlier \u2014 on the eve of the album\u2019s release \u2014 I sat down with Russell over coffee to chat about all things \u201cHigh Horse,\u201d and what he hoped this album release ushers in for the Fort Worth rock band.<\/p>\n Russell, 52, shared about a time in his early 20s when he was a regular at Bill\u2019s Records in Dallas. The employees came to know him and curated specialized recommendations of bands and albums for him to check out each time he visited.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is where I first learned the value in the sharing (of music),\u201d Russell said.\u00a0<\/p>\n Artists like Happy Mondays and Oasis, first fed to Russell at Bill\u2019s, inspired the sound of many past Cut Throat Finches\u2019 records, which audibly have a UK-inspired base to their tracks.\u00a0<\/p>\n But if that eclectic blend of folk-inspired music found in Cut Throat Finches\u2019 previous records is what you are expecting from \u201c<\/em>High Horse\u201d you better not hold those hopes too tightly.<\/p>\n On this new record, Russell said that he was itching to feel the type of musical connection at home in Fort Worth as he did in the aisles at Bill\u2019s.<\/p>\n \u201cThe first real music community music scene I ever saw in Fort Worth was at Lola\u2019s (Trailer Park),\u201d Russell shared, as he flashed the L tattooed between the thumb and pointer finger on his right hand.\u00a0<\/p>\n