Brent Amaker and the Rodeo's new album "Please Stand By," is out on Spark & Shine Records. The band will be playing several shows at Austin's SXSW, which is the South by Southwest event March 16 - 19. They plan to tour Europe late summer.

You can now enjoy their latest video from that album, "Man in Charge" here:

http://www.ifc.com/news/2011/03/brent-amaker-and-the-rodeos-ma.php

Some may find Amaker sounds like Johnny Cash, but even more so, on this track.

Amaker is an Admiral Junction resident whose alter-ego operates Brent Amacher State Farm Insurance, also in the Admiral Junction.

The West Seattle Herald caught up with the well-composed musician while busy on his MAC at the nearby Bird on a Wire Espresso, this newspaper's former digs.

We asked him what is it like to perform in Texas.

"Texas is a very different culture than here," he said, adding, "And Austin is its own cultural island within Texas."

That may very well define the Rodeo sound, an expressive edge of outlaw busting out of a traditional country music culture.