Steven Bankey & the Flatland Band
Steven Bankey & The Flatlander’s is a red dirt country band out of Kansas City, Mo. Heavily influenced by the grassroots country music movement originating in southern parts of Texas and Oklahoma. In their second year as a band they have already earned opening spots for some top national acts. Whiskey Myers, Granger Smith, Whitey Morgan, Ray Wiley Hubbard and Morgan Evans to name a few. They have really honed their live show playing at Firewater festival and Mid America Music festival. Looking For Something more was their freshman record and was released under the label Tremulant Records out of North Carolina. “The Drifter” the albums single is featured on the Spotify Playlist’s “Playlist Texas” and “Its Country To Me”. “The Drifter” also featured a full length cinematic video shot and directed by Rivera Studios.
Formed in 2018 Steven Bankey & The Flatlander’s may have only been a band for a short time but more than make up for it with it’s seasoned members. Steven Bankey fronts the band and brings with him rich vocals and a unique style of approaching rhythm guitar. Bankey has been writing songs for over a decade and his life experience’s can be found throughout the lyrics of the songs. Steven earned an American Songwriting Award on “Lightning In A Bottle”, a song for which he co-wrote, and it charted on both indie and major charts.
SONG LIST
9 to 5 - Dolly Parton
Ramblin Man - Allman Brothers Band
Long Haired Country Boy - Charlie Daniels Band
Fire Away - Chris Stapleton
Tennessee Whiskey - Chris Stapleton
Diamond In My Pocket - Cody Johnson
17 - Cross Canadian Ragweed
Alabama - Cross Canadian Ragweed
I Ain't Living Long Like This - Waylon Jennings
Tulsa Time - Don Williams
Guitars, Cadillacs - Dwight Yoakam
Save Tonight - Eagle-Eye Cherry
These Boots - Eric Church
Flatland Boy - Erik Dylan
It Ain't Broke - Erik Dylan
I Don't Need Your Rocking Chair - George Jones
Family Tradition - Hank Williams Jr
In Color - Jamey Johnson
Hurt So Good - John Mellencamp
Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash
Blue on Black - Kenny Wayne Shepherd
February 28th, 2016 - Koe Wetzel
Walking in Memphis - Marc Cohn
3 AM - Matchbox 20
Working Man Blues - Merle Haggard
Mama Tried - Merle Haggard & the Strangers
Wave on Wave - Pat Green
Copperhead Road - Steve Earle
American Dream - Steven Bankey (Original)
Fantasy - Steven Bankey (Original)
Lightning in a Bottle - Steven Bankey (Original)
Lottery - Steven Bankey (Original)
Memphis - Steven Bankey (Original)
Montana - Steven Bankey (Original)
Over You - Steven Bankey (Original)
Remind Me - Steven Bankey (Original)
She's Never Been the Kind - Steven Bankey (Original)
Tenkiller - Steven Bankey (Original)
The Drifter - Steven Bankey (Original)
This Old Town - Steven Bankey (Original)
Too Big for Nashville - Steven Bankey (Original)
You Can Have the Crown - Sturgill Simpson
Can't You See - The Marshall Tucker Band
Blind Lover - The Steel Woods
Whipping Post - The Steel Woods
American Girl - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
7 & 7 - Turnpike Troubadours
A Tornado Warning - Turnpike Troubadours
KC Southern - Turnpike Troubadours
The Housefire - Turnpike Troubadours
Feathered Indians - Tyler Childers
White House Road - Tyler Childers
Please Come to Boston - Wade Bowen
Honky Tonk Heroes - Waylon Jennings
Bury My Bones - Whiskey Myers
Stone - Whiskey Myers
Hit You Where It Hurts - William Clark Green