Grady Spencer & the Work, Taylor Craig Mills

Grady Spencer and the Work is blue collar band, making blue collar music, for a blue collar world.

The Work is a band formed and based out of the great city of Fort Worth, Texas. Songwriter Grady Spencer met and befriended guitarist Trevor Powell and drummer Blake Sager on the stage of Paradox Church, under the marble angels of Bass Hall. After an absence of a steady bassist developed into an issue, Grady took to the dank underbelly of the Craigslist musician forums. It was there he found seasoned veteran Steve Moore lurking in the shadows, vintage bass in hand.
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Grady Spencer and the Work meld together the grit of the old-time blues with the blood-red soil of classic country to forge a well-worn hammer of modern music. Their high energy shows keep people thirsty, rowdy, and always ready for more. The Work, from time to time, can be found riding around in what has been deemed "Jean-Claude Van Dam", an iconic and stately Econovan, to criss and cross all over the Southern United States. Their shows have been described as "unmissable" by more than one late night drinker...and they always know everything about everything.


Taylor Craig Mills:

"Mills' songs are classic American folk, with vocals that range from a clean, powerful sound to an almost wounded-sounding wail. The acoustic guitar work is tasteful and unobtrusive -- important qualities for vocal-driven music. You can definitely hear a strong Dylan influence here, and it's just the thing for a college-town bar or coffee shop"-STEVE WATKINS- dfw.com


"A nominee for best male vocalist (2011), Taylor Craig Mills has a thing for romantic Brit-pop, though he's Fort Worth to the core. His songs are neatly, crisply structured and arranged, and his masculine, no-frills voice has a world-weariness that's nothing short of captivating and endearing."- Fort Worth Weekly


"There's a beautiful exhaustion to Fort Worth singer-songwriter Taylor Craig Mills' full-length debut that invites listeners closer. Released under the moniker Mills & Co. (his bandmates include Kris Knight, Jeremy Hull and Damien Stewart), Don't Ever Look Back Twice is nominally folk, fueled by Mills' expressive, faintly anguished voice and music with plenty of space in it. In concert, Mills and his collaborators can work up a righteous fury, but here the songs are often exquisite slow burns, like the early highlight Shut Up & Ship Out or The Miles We Bend. An accomplished freshman effort and another feather in Cowtown's creative cap." -Preston Jones, DFW.com