Marked Cards and Loaded Dice is the debut, solo country record of Today Is The Day frontman Steve Austin—which might be a strange sentence to read if you only know Austin through the extreme metal of the band he’s fronted since the early 90s.

But the outlaw country and bluegrass influences run deep for Austin. This is the music he grew up with and so while this latest record is quite a departure from Today Is The Day, it represents a musical world close to the songwriter’s heart.

With Marked Cards and Loaded Dice being released last Friday on Austin’s own SuperNova Records we discuss the record, the backing band Austin put together, some of his country music inspirations and life away from the big cities.

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