Kate Teague to Perform with Hovvdy and Graham at Proud Larry's Saturday

Oxford musician and Thacker Mountain Radio Executive Producer Kate Teague is living the opposite of a low life. She will put out her first solo album this fall through Oxford-based Muscle Beach Records and recently released her debut song, “Low Life,” which will appear on the album.
Teague will also perform at Proud Larry’s on Saturday, along with the Oxford band Graham and the headliner, Hovvdy, from Austin, Texas. The show starts at 9 p.m., and tickets are $7.
Teague’s new song has an absolutely dreamy quality, with a touch of darker, smoky vibes reminiscent of Lana Del Rey.
“‘Low Life’ was a song I wrote about three years ago when I was living in a pretty decrepit house in Oxford,” Teague said. “I wrote it during the winter time when it was absolutely freezing in the house and pretty miserable, but my boyfriend and I had just started dating, and so I wrote about the complex of being in a crappy living situation but making the best of it because you are in a new and exciting relationship.”
Read a review of “Low Life” here.
Teague is from Mobile, Alabama, and went to Ole Miss on a choir scholarship. She sang in two choirs during all four years of college but only began playing music in Oxford in her junior year.
She helped form a local band called Reels at the beginning of her senior year and stayed in Oxford after her graduation in 2015 to pursue creating music with them. But Reels broke up in 2016 due to band members moving away. Thus, she began her solo career.
To listen to “Low Life,” click on the image below.

Meanwhile, Conner Ferguson, an Ole Miss student and avid music fan, described the new Hovvdy album, “Cranberry,” as falling “somewhere in between lo-fi-bedroom pop and country influenced slow-core.”
“I missed Hovvdy both times that they’ve played in Oxford, and I’m really excited to catch the show this time around. It’s already one of my favorite releases of the year,” Ferguson said.
Hovvdy, pronounced Howdy, is a band composed of Charlie Martin and Will Taylor, both from Austin, Texas. They began creating and recording melancholic bedroom pop and rock songs at home. They released “Cranberry,” their second album, earlier this month.

“I love Hovvdy a lot,” said Graham Hamaker, who is a part of the band Graham. “They have a close, special place in my heart. When I was living in New Orleans, my friend Patrick told me probably 20 times about ‘this band Hovvdy,’ and I did what I generally do to him now and just said, ‘Ah, yeah, cool,’ but never really listened. Then, when I finally did listen, I felt like an idiot, because it’s exactly the kind of music I listen to. I guess you could say [it’s] ‘premium’ bedroom pop.”
Hamaker grew up in Abita Springs, La., best known for Abita Beer, which his father helped found in the 1980s. He went to the University of New Orleans and studied filmmaking for a year before realizing it wasn’t what he wanted to do, then transferred to Loyola University, where he found his calling in the Music Industry Studies program.
Currently, he works at Fat Possum Records, an independent label based in Oxford and Water Valley. He’s also a part of several bands, including Graham, Bonus, Starman Jr., and Total Betty.
“I think I’ve always been and will always be inspired by other people’s music, specifically my friends who make music,” Hamaker said. “I think there’s this inherent push friends can give each other when they both make music, maybe not to try and be better than the other person, but to develop a style separate than those around you. I tend to like quieter, moodier music with a lot of atmosphere, lush guitar and catchy hooks.”
Hovvdy and Graham have played a handful of shows together, including one with Hamaker’s other band, Bonus, in New Orleans. Graham also played a show with Teague back in 2017. Saturday’s show at Proud Larry’s will bring all three of these artists together.
“I really look forward to sharing the stage with Hovvdy, which is one of my favorite new-ish groups,” said Teague. “I also always love playing with my friends, a.k.a. all of Graham. Working with Muscle Beach has been a blast. Those three dudes (founders Hamaker, Adam Porter and Kieran Danielson), are three of my greatest friends. The amount of time, energy and passion they put into Muscle Beach is really inspiring, and I really enjoy being a part of that with them.”

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Lucy Burnam is a journalism major at the University of Mississippi.